Islam as a religion emphasizes on the fact that all things in this world belong to Allah and human own wealth just as trust. So it is the duty of every pious Muslim to distribute a share of his wealth to the poor and needy. The word Zakat means “purification” and “growth” and by giving Zakat a Muslim not only gets his wealth “purified” but Allah also blesses such person with prosperity.

Different channels of Zakat:

Zakat is the amount of money that every financially stable Musli...

Role of Mosques:

Islam is the world’s fastest growing religion and is spreading all over the world. Mosques in West are also increasing and the number of converts to Islam as well. In various cases, building up new mosques and establishing the Islamic centers are not helping the new converts. The reason is that there are many mosques who belong to a particular group of Muslims. There are some categories made by people like Somali mosque or Bosnian mosque. There might be many mosques present...

There are five pillars of religion Islam. All these pillars have some sort of association with faith. However, there are two pillars Peace and Justice, which are vital component of religion Islam. Both these are closely connected with each other, as there cannot be any peace without justice. Muslims believe in the fact that peace is not possible, until and unless there is submission in the Universal order. In the religion Islam, justice has great significance. One of the name of Almighty Alla...

 

Ghusl is referred as the complete ablution. This act is necessary in the religion Islam for performing different prayers and rituals. After any sort of sexual intercourse, ablution becomes mandatory. Islam speaks about performing the complete ablution before offering the Friday and Eid prayers. Ablution is also required before performing hajj. It is better to perform ablution before reciting or learning Holy Quran. Ghusl and ablution are two different things, wudu is required before performi...

“Faith” or “Belief” means “to justify”. From the point of view of Sharia, meaning of faith is to justify anything by heart. It also involves the declaration of words and showing it through the good deeds. It is also found that faith is not only the domain of heart of someone, instead it can also be shown through deeds and words. It is also said the faith has almost seventy branches and its best branch is said to be “La ilaha illallah”, while its least branch involves modesty. ...

Zakat is one of the most important pillar of religion Islam. The meanings of Arabic word Zakat is ‘purification’ and ‘growth’. The possessions can be purified by paying Zakat and you get blessed by its growth. Zakat is a calculated amount of money which a true Muslim must pay to people who truly deserve it.  Zakat purifies the alms; it refers to giving a fixed portion of wealth to charity, to the poor and needy. It was practiced initially by Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H), who played a vi...

It is the deification or the worship of anything or anyone other than Almighty Allah, it is defined as the establishment of partners placed besides Almighty Allah. You can get a clear view and idea of Shirk from Quran teaching and can also move away from Shirk. This vice is very much opposite to the virtues of Tawheed. In the religion Islam, shirk is very much an unforgivable crime. Almighty Allah might forgive any sin, but shirk cannot be forgiven.

 

1) Shirk in entity.

2) Shirk in Attributes...