Governing Zakat as a social institution : the Malaysian perspective / Shawal Kaslam

• Main Author: Kaslam, Shawal
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Research Management Institute (RMI) 2009
• Subjects: The five duties of a Moslem. Pillars of Islam; Social institutions
• Online Access: http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13069/1/AJ_SYAWAL%20KASLAM%20SMRJ%2009%201.pdf; http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13069/; https://smrj.uitm.edu.my/

Zakat is one of the five pillars of Islam and is an ibadah that should be performed by every individual Muslims. A person’s iman is incomplete unless he has performed all the pillars of Islam and a person should not place less importance on any of the pillars. As the Quran says that, it is an obliga...