Zakah One of the five pillars of Islam; a mandatory tax on Muslims to pay 2.5% of their wealth to specified categories in society when their annual wealth exceeds a certain level
Zakah Zakah (Purifying Alms) literally means purification, whence it is used to express a portion of property bestowed in alms, as a means of purifying the person concerned and the remainder of his property. It is among the five pillars of Islam and refers to the mandatory amount that a Muslim must pay out of his property. The detailed rules of zakah have been laid down in books of Fiqh.