Zakir Naik – Implications of Tawheed in Zakaah
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The speaker discusses the importance of giving zakah, which means giving at least 2.5% of one's annual salary to charity. They also explain that Islam requires a loan, which means giving to charity instead of just yourself. The speaker emphasizes the importance of prioritizing charity over wealth and mentions past experiences where their wealth was taken away by a non-M-thistanti government.
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The third pillar of Islam,
Zakah.
Every rich person who has a saving of
more than 85 grams of gold, more than
the nissab level, should give 2.5%
of his saving every luno in charity. If
every rich human being in this world gives
zakah, charity will be eradicated from this world.
When we give zakah, it's an obligatory
for the charity.
Most of the times, 2.5%.
You have to give.
And says in the Quran, who is the
one who can give a beautiful loan to
Allah and he will multiply
it to you? Does Allah require a loan?
Allah,
does he require a loan? What does he
mean by this verse?
That means if you see a poor man,
you give charity. If you see someone who
wants some money,
you give it to him as loan as
though you're giving it. Not Allah doesn't require.
You're giving because Allah commands you.
When Allah says, who is there to give
a loan to Allah? Allah doesn't require. To
him belongs everything. It means Allah is checking.
Do you follow his commandment or not? Do
you help the poor people or not? Do
you see to it that you fulfill the
needs of the poor people or not? When
you give food to a needy, you're feeding
Allah. Allah doesn't require to be fed. Allah
says in Surah Anam chapter 6
verse 104, he feedeth everyone but does not
require to be fed.
Renam chapter 6 verse number 14.
So here,
when you're giving zakat,
it's the commandment of Allah.
And I say, zakat is further.
Additional charity is mustahab.
It is mustahab. So minimum, if you give
2.5%,
it is your minimum
Muslim.
But if you give more,
you're a better Muslim.
And I tell the people that
but try and give more charity.
Okay. If 10% of your income,
or if 20% of your income. And the
more percentage you give to Allah,
the balance with you will be more in
quantity
than the earlier.
And I told my son
that when you do business,
minimum,
you should give a 51%. Why? Make Allah
your partner in business.
And
you cannot make Allah a small partner, 10%,
20%. If Allah is a partner, he has
to be a major shareholder.
So minimum 51%.
He knows how much I give, but mine
is a different case. It's a different level.
He's just starting business. So minimum, you have
to give 51%
of your profit every year to Allah in
charity.
Minimum.
Because
if you make Allah the partner in business,
you cannot make him a small partner. He
should be the biggest shareholder. Then you keep
on increasing.
60%,
70%. The more you increase, the balance that
will be with you will be bigger.
I remember
that in Bombay,
where I
lived more than 7 years back, I asked
to pray to Allah, that,
you Allah,
let my life and wealth
be sacrificed in the way of Allah.
So when we did Hijra in 2016,
because I'm a die,
I had to leave my country for sake
of Allah.
It's a sunnah of the prophet. What with
all my wealth went away.
100 of 1,000,000 of ringgit,
we left it.
I prayed to Allah, you, Allah, you fulfill
half my dream.
I'm waiting for Allah to fulfill the next
half.
My wealth is gone.
I'm waiting for my life
to be sacrificed.
I was telling my friend just a few
days back, I pray to Allah that whatever
the sets of the, then the let us
get back. But as far as my wealth,
I don't want it back. You say,
why?
Because I have already invested in the way
of our life. If I get it back,
I'm afraid I will not get the reward
in the year after. So never do I
pray
because my wealth in India was taken away
by a non Muslim government because I'm a
die. So whatever 100 of 1,000,000 of ringgit
you have sacrificed, I don't want it back
because I know in Accra, I'll get minimum
700 times or more.
So this is the implication of tawhid, that
if you have faith in Allah
you're not bothered about wealth.
You're bothered about akhirah.
Allah says, if you strive for dunya, Allah
gives you dunya. If you strive for akhirah,
Allah gives akhirah and duniya both.
Within the next few years,
we did business and Allah got
part of the wealth back to me, not
from India. I'm a day full time for
the sake of Allah. Maybe 2 hours
a week.
2, 3 days A month, I do business,
and Allah blesses me.