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The Purpose and Significance of Zakat
- from Imam Ghazali's 'Ihya ul Uloom'

One must understand the necessity and significance of paying the Alms (Zakat), how it represents a test of character, and why it has been made one of the fundamentals of Islam, even though it is a financial transaction and not a physical act of worship.
Three points deserve consideration here:
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"And Al-Muttaqun (the pious and righteous) will be far removed from it (Hell). He who spends his wealth for increase in self-purification. And have in his mind no favour from anyone for which a reward is expected in return, Except only the desire to seek the Countenance of his Lord, the Most High; He surely will be pleased (when he will enter Paradise)."-Quran (92:17-21)