Why We Pay Zakat ?
1-To show
devotion to Allah who commanded us to do so and informed us that He loves the
charitable.
2-To be grateful to Allah Who provided us with wealth and helped us to
earn.
3-To mitigate the suffering of the needy.
4-To help in the betterment of the
Muslim Society.
5-To participate in propagating Islam in the whole
world.
6-To cure ourselves of selfishness and greed.
7-To make ourselves
masters of our property not slaves of it.
8-To purify our properties of any
unclean behavior in earning them.
9-To have our properties blessed
by Allah.
10-To deserve to be rewarded by Allah with what is better in the
Hereafter.
11-To keep our needy fellows away from envy and
hatred.
12-To help in protecting our society from economic class conflict, and
to participate in solving the economic srisis.
13-You can pay your Zakat to
"Zakat House", or to any trustworthy Islamic organization that collects Zakat
and spends it in the right Islamic uses.