Zakat

In Islam, Zakat is a 10% assessment on net assets (with a personal exemption, to boot).

Maaser vs. Zakat « View From a Height 2009

The fourth is called Zakat, which is an annual alms tax, 2.5 percent of any unused wealth that has accumulated over one year.

CNN Transcript Jan 8, 2006 2006

The word Zakat means both 'purification' and 'growth'.

Bloggers.Pakistan 2008

Islam mandates obligatory giving of 2.5 percent of accumulated or surplus wealth, called Zakat, and many Muslims give it in the month of Ramadan.

Muqtedar Khan: Ramadan: A Month Of Longing Muqtedar Khan 2011

Islam mandates obligatory giving of 2.5 percent of accumulated or surplus wealth, called Zakat, and many Muslims give it in the month of Ramadan.

Muqtedar Khan: Ramadan: A Month Of Longing Muqtedar Khan 2011

Muslims contribute only the meager Zakat, which is fixed at 2.5% of excess produce of the year, to the treasury of ideal Islamic states.

Osama's Tax Incentives to Americans --- Not Telling the Whole Truth 2007

Green Christians have done the same with Lent, while progressive Muslims can point to the legal requirement known as Zakat, which demands believers give away 2. 5% of their wealth in order to purify the rest. life beyond the material: people want their lives to be about something more than just jobs, houses and cars.

BrothersJudd Blog 2010

Green Christians have done the same with Lent, while progressive Muslims can point to the legal requirement known as Zakat, which demands believers give away 2. 5% of their wealth in order to purify the rest. life beyond the material: people want their lives to be about something more than just jobs, houses and cars.

BrothersJudd Blog 2010

And the Zakat is a system that makes ppl charitable and keeps the community together and strong, by looking out for eachother.

current.com top stories 2010

Most people also beleive that education and some of the other nation building activities do not qualify for Zakat, which is the main channel for donated funds.

Bloggers.Pakistan 2009