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Zakah is when Muslims donate money and wealth to charities and good causes. This wealth is not all their life savings or earnings but what money or valuable items (e.g. Jewellery) are left after catering for all your family's needs, for example, money in the bank, or money left n your wallet. Zakah-collectors work out a certain formula using the amount of wealth you have, so not all of it is given away. Muslims do not resent this as they believe that they were only borrowing Allah's items and that they are returning it to him by doing so. It also teaches Muslims to be generous and not selfish. This happens at the end of Ramadam.

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