Zakat

Abdalhaqq accepted Islam in 1968 and spent some years in Morocco learning about Islam. Since that time he has worked on the establishment of Islam and Muslim communities, in the process living and teaching in Nigeria, the US, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Spain, the Caribbean, and the UK. He currently resides and teaches in Bradford. Amal Douglas was born in the UK of Jamaican parents and schooled in the UK until age thirteen when the family returned to Jamaica. After high school, university, working in various family businesses (alternating between shopkeeper, bartender and bus conductor) and time as a very young civil servant, he returned to the UK, worked for a while in the "the City" (London's financial district). His first major solo business venture was as a travel and shipping agent in Paddington, and as an entrepreneur he has not looked back since.
As an author (Hajj) Amal has written several books including Call of The Twice Removed, written and produced the play Diary of a 'Son of Africa.' and founded of the Open Trade Network. He is well known business coach and trainer with Olympic Sprint Business Coaching and speaks extensively on issues of gold as currency, fundraising, fair & open trade, zakat & halal trade and supporting small to medium enterprises.

zakat – raising a fallen pillar

the fallen pillar

zakat and the state

zakat and the banking system

other factors in the subversion of zakat

the fiqh of zakat

the zakat of livestock

camels

cattle

sheep and goats

partnerships

general

the zakat of agricultural produce

cereals

pulses

oil crops

dates and raisins

the zakat of monetary wealth

the problem of paper money

the nisab for the zakat of monetary wealth

zakat on savings

zakat on trade goods

debts

business investments

personal property

general

the recipients of zakat

the poor

the destitute

the collectors 

people whose hearts are to be reconciled 

freeing slaves 

debtors

in the way of allah 

travellers 

general

zakat al-fitr

who pays zakat al-fitr

the amount and form of payment of zakat al-fitr

the time of payment and distribution of zakat al-fitr

jizya

the fiqh of jizya

the restoration of zakat

the question of leadership

the re-introduction of gold and silver coinage

the institution of awqaf in muslim society

the purpose of the waqf

types of waqf 

the social role of the waqf

the gold dinar and the islamic money system

introduction 

1. zakat: restoring a fallen pillar

2. trade: establishing the halal

3. the islamic money system

4. the islamic market

towards the dar al-islam

5. priority objectives

6. an implementation strategy

i. collection and distribution of zakat

ii. minting, supplying and redeeming coins

iii. trading with dinars and dirhams

iv. establishing an open market

v. establishing awqaf

vi. supporting da’wa