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The Ramazan Charity
Zakat-al-Fitr is specifically related to the month of fasting and is given
before the special Eid Prayer. The reason for this Zakat is two-fold.

According to a Hadith reported by Ibn Abbas:
Zakat-al-Fitr is an atonement for the fasting Society should be
person’s inadvertent idle talk and to provide so ordered that
food for the needy. Discharging this duty people fortunately
before the prayer is very important. placed in life come
Zakat-al-Fitr perfects the fast of Ramazan to the assistance of
and purifies the fast of any indecent act or their less fortunate
speech. It is obligatory on all Muslims: young, brothers, in the
old, male and female. Every Muslim who knowledge that they
possesses over and above what is needed as will ultimately be
basic food for the duration of one day and rewarded by God.
night must pay Zakat-al-Fitr for himself and
his dependants and distribute it amongst the
poor and needy. The earlier it is given the easier it is for them to make
arrangements, so that they may also take part in the celebrations of Eid
without any difficulties. o

Comprehensive Principle

All individuals be they literate or illiterate,
able-bodied or handicapped, whether of one
class or another, are certain at all events, of
their own likes and dislikes. What is required
of them is they should follow the principle
that whatever behaviour they want from
others, they should themselves accord to
others. Conversely, whatever behaviour
towards themselves they abhor in others
should likewise be eschewed by them.

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