Wednesday Dars/Lecture Series – Fiqh of Zakat

Date: From Wednesday, 11 June 2014
Time: After Isha prayer
Location: Canberra Mosque, 130 Empire Circuit, Yarralumla
Speaker: Sh. Furqan Jabbar

This course is an intensive three hour course which focuses on the essentials on one of the five pillars of Islam; Zakat. Among the topics discussed in the course is the the-ological underpinnings of Zakat, the wisdom behind it, who Zakat is obligated on and how to calculate it.
After three sessions (each one-hour long), it is aimed that attendees will competently be able to understand:

  • The status of the individual who refuses to pay Zakah in this life and the next
  • The practical wisdom behind the concept of Zakah
  • Who Zakah is obligated upon according to the Shari’ah
  • The conditions required for Zakah
  • The difference between Zakat Al-Fitr and Zakat Al-Maal, and how to pay each
  • How calculate Zakah (money and animals)
  • Some of the modern issues associated with Zakah.

This course for you, if

  • You have interest in understanding one of the major pillars (and obligations) of
  • Islam
  • You have interest in Islamic monetary principles
  • You are confused as to when and how you should pay Zakah
  • You like your Islamic courses to be interactive

Brothers and Sisters are welcome.

Organised by the Islamic Society of Australian Capital Territory (ISACT).

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