Understand, Calculate & Give Zakat With Confidence.

24 Jan 2025

Why Young Muslims Should Care About Zakat

Young Muslims often see Zakat as something their parents do. An obligation for people with established wealth, property, and savings. But this is wrong. Zakat is for anyone who has wealth above nisab for one year. That includes many young Muslims. The tech worker with crypto holdings. The graduate with her first job. The entrepreneur building a startup. If you have savings, investments, or business assets worth more than the nisab threshold, Zakat applies to you. Ignoring this is not a minor mistake. It is missing a fundamental Islamic obligation. More importantly, it is missing an opportunity to participate in transformative justice while young, when habits form and character develops.

22 Jan 2025

From Obligation to Opportunity: Reframing How We Think About Zakat

Most Muslims think of Zakat as an obligation. Something they must do. A religious duty that costs money. This mindset is not wrong, but it is incomplete. Yes, Zakat is obligatory. But it is also an opportunity. An opportunity to purify wealth. To participate in economic justice. To transform communities. To fulfill a divine purpose. When we shift from thinking of Zakat as a burden to thinking of it as a privilege, everything changes. The calculation becomes more careful. The distribution becomes more thoughtful. The impact becomes more powerful. This reframing is not about making people feel better about giving money. It is about recognizing what Zakat truly is.

16 Jan 2025

The Zakat Economy: How 2.5% Could Transform Global Poverty

Every year, Muslims around the world give millions of pounds in Zakat. Yet most people outside the Muslim community have never heard of it. If Zakat participation reached its full potential, annual redistribution could exceed hundreds of billions. That is enough to eliminate extreme poverty worldwide. This is not a dream or a theory. It is a mathematical reality based on the wealth Muslims already possess and a 1,400-year-old obligation they already recognize. The question is not whether Zakat could transform global poverty. The question is why we are not talking about it.