Discuss the benefits of Zakat and Sadaqah to the community.
Explanation
Benefits of Zakat to the Community
Zakat, with its innumerable facets, is a bond between members of society, one wherein collective harmony is dependent on individual harmony. For zakat explicitly creates a virtuous setting that eliminates various social problems by establishing a harmonious atmosphere for both the rich and the poor. In a nutshell, zakat forestalls, reduces, or eliminates social conflicts, strengthens the growth of the middle class, and obviates all of the greatest social diseases pertaining to financial issues, especially interest and money-hoarding
- Zakat reduces class struggles
- Zakat strengthen the middle class
- Zakat cures social diseases
- Zakat liberates society from interest
Benefits of Sadaqah to the Community
- It enhances the well-being of the people in Islamic society.
- It helps in fulfilling the requirement of the poor Muslims.
- It lightens the debt of the Muslim debtors.
- It helps in taking care of those whose hearts have been (recently)reconciled (to the Truth).
- It helps the stranded Muslims to complete their journey.
- It helps in the healing of various Sickness(according to the prophet of Islam).