Zakat is the yearly purifying charity due on wealth held above a threshold (nisab) for a full lunar year — usually 2.5% of savings. The Qur'an names exactly who may receive it, and pairs the command to give zakat with the command to pray.
“And establish prayer and give zakah, and whatever good you put forward for yourselves - you will find it with Allah. Indeed, Allah of what you do, is Seeing.”— 2:110 (Saheeh International)
“Zakah expenditures are only for the poor and for the needy and for those employed to collect [zakah] and for bringing hearts together [for Islam] and for freeing captives [or slaves] and for those in debt and for the cause of Allah and for the [stranded] traveler - an obligation [imposed] by Allah. And Allah is Knowing and Wise.”— 9:60 (Saheeh International)
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