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Jom Malaysia: Give Your Zakat Easily | PPZ
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Pusat Pungutan Zakat (PPZ) was established and started serving the community of zakat payers in Malaysia on 27th December 1990. It was one of the first organisations not just in Malaysia, but at a global level to employ the use of technology to collect and manage zakat.
Give Your Zakat Easily With PPZ
Give your zakat via GlobalSadaqah and get zakat receipts from PPZ for your contribution. GlobalSadaqah is an officially appointed Amil on behalf of PPZ.
This campaign accepts contributions from Malaysian bank accounts only.
What Is Zakat?
Zakat is an obligatory form of charity that all eligible Muslims pay as required by the Shariah. As one of the five pillars of Islam, zakat is considered one of the most important things a Muslim will do in their life. Zakat was legislated in 2 AH, approximately 18 months after the arrival of the Prophet ﷺ to Madinah.
The system of Zakat ensures proper distribution of wealth and has a wide impact on the entire set-up of an ideal Muslim society. If Zakat is established as an institution, it will create a collective social security scheme for mutual help/sympathy and the resources of the rich can be further utilised for the benefit of the poor and subsequent social development of the entire society. Giving zakat helps break the dependency cycle of charity by empowering the weaker sections of the community by letting them have funds to become self-sufficient.
Allah tells us, “In their wealth and properties is the right of the poor, the beggar and he who is in deprivation.” [Surah al-Dhariyat, 19]
Who Is Eligible to Pay Zakat?
- Muslim of sound mind
- Free (Not enslaved)
- In control of their own wealth
- Has reached the minimum threshold for zakat (known as nisab).
- A full lunar year has passed over the zakatable wealth.
Zakat starts on the date your wealth first equalled or exceeded the nisab and should be calculated on that date for each subsequent year.
What is Nisab? How is it Calculated?
Nisab (plural: Nusub) is considered a certain financial threshold. It is described as the minimum amount of wealth that a Muslim must own before zakat is obligated upon them. Pegged to the value of gold, the nisab value changes every year. The value of nisab is determined by the authorities based on the average value of the price of 85g of gold in the past year.
The Nisab for 2022 as per PPZ is: MYR 20,361
Muslims whose wealth or net assets have reached this threshold are obliged to pay Zakat, which is 2.5% of the total value of the wealth which has been in their possession for more than one lunar calendar year. This threshold was stipulated by the Messenger of Allah. The calculation is based on 20 mithqal of gold which is equivalent to 85-87 grams of gold or 200 dirhams of silver which is equivalent to 595 grams of silver.
Important Reminder: Paying Zakat On Time
Zakat is like a trust in the hands of the donor and is the due right of the beneficiary.
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “He who is given wealth by Allah but he does not pay its Zakat, that wealth is made for him, on the Day of Judgment, into the form of a huge bald serpent with two horns, encircling that person and squeezing him all day, then holding him by lips telling him, ‘I am your wealth, your treasure that you hoarded.”
Then the Prophet ﷺ quoted the verse, “And let not those who covetously withhold the gift that Allah has given them of His grace think that it is good for them. Nay, it will be worse for them. Soon shall the things which they covetously withheld be tied to their necks like a collar on the Day of Judgment.”(Surah Al-Imran, 180) [Bukhari]
Zakat should not be viewed as some form of tax, fine, or penalty. Instead, giving zakat does not reduce one’s wealth, but through zakat, Allah says that our wealth will be blessed and purified. Allah tells us in the Quran,
“But that which you give in Zakat seeing Allah’s Face, then those they shall have manifold increase” [Surah al-Rum, 39]
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ explicitly promised us that giving in charity does not decrease wealth. What else do we need as a guarantee or a motivation? The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Charity does not decrease wealth, no one forgives another except that Allah increases his honor, and no one humbles himself for the sake of Allah except that Allah raises his status.” [Muslim]
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