Zakat as a rabbinic system has a comprehensive vision to rebuild the economy on the basis of mercy, justice and balance, making it an urgent humanitarian/global necessity and not just a religious legislation for Muslims. With the verse: "It is not right to turn your faces...
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Zakat as a rabbinic system has a comprehensive vision to rebuild the economy on the basis of compassion, justice and balance, making it an urgent humanitarian/global imperative and not just a religious legislation for Muslims.
It is not righteousness to turn your faces before the East and the West, but righteousness is he who believes in Allah and the Last Day, and the angels, and the Book, and the Messenger of Allah, and the wealth has come upon his love, kinsmen, orphans, the needy, the wayfarer, the beggars, and the penitents.
The legislative miracle in Zakat is that it includes all the needy groups that have not been able to make their way in material life, which can only be forgiven by living in the Islamic system, after all the experience of humanity of economic systems, here is today the accumulation of money in the hands of a handful of people no more than one percent compared to about eighty percent of the deprived people of the earth.
The obligation of Zakat is one of the most prominent manifestations of the legislative miracle in Islam, as it represents a unique economic and social system based on justice and mercy, and aims to protect the poor, weak and deprived from marginalization and deprivation. The universal verse of Surat al-Baqarah, “It is not right to turn your faces before the Orient and Morocco...” [Al-Baqarah: 177] expressed this amazing integration between hearty faith and social behavior, as it made spending on kins and kins.
1. In the legislative and spiritual axis: Zakat is an integrated duty
Legislative admiration: The verse emphasizes that Zakat is not just a financial tax, but a “financial worship” that combines worship and treatment. It is a cleansing of the soul from scarcity and selfishness, and a cleansing of money from the poor, making it a unique system that balances the needs of the soul and the substance.
The link between faith and action: The addition here is to emphasize that Zakat is the practical translation of faith. A faith that does not turn into positive social behavior is an incomplete faith, as explained by the verse from Surat al-Baqarah, making the Islamic economic system a value system before it is a set of laws.
2. In the social and economic axis: a comprehensive symbiotic system
Social safety net: The verse highlights how zakat is the oldest and most comprehensive social security system in history. In addition, it can be emphasized that the eight zakat banks (the poor, the poor, their workers, their hearts, the censors, the Garmin, for God's sake, the wayfarer) cover almost all causes of want and need in society, preventing the emergence of a completely "forgotten" class.
Justice for Equality: An important addition here is to differentiate between the concepts of "justice" in Islam and "absolute equality" in other systems. Islam does not equate between those who own and those who do not, but rather modifies between them by means of legislations such as Zakat, which redistribute wealth in a way that preserves the individual incentive to earn while achieving collective solidarity.
3. Monetary axis: Comparison with positive systems (analytical addition)
Radical Criticism of Capitalism and Communism: The verse makes a strong comparison between the Zakat system and the positivist systems.
Capitalism: An analytical addition here is that capitalism creates a "spiritual gap" along with the economic divide. By making the market the supreme deity, human relationships lose value in favor of the material relationship, leading to societies where anxiety and alienation prevail despite the abundance of production.
Communism: By suppressing individual property, it has killed the “spirit of initiative and creativity” of the individual. It has tackled poverty by impoverishing everyone, which is in contrast to the human instinct and the cosmic year of difference and differentiation in earning.
4. Historical and Cultural Axis: Precedence and Influence
The idea that the poor have a “right” to the wealth of the rich, not an optional “manna” or “donation,” is revolutionary and was introduced by Islam centuries ago.
Influence on Western systems: The story of Zakat becoming a “social security” in the West validates the basic principle of symbiosis. But an important addition is that the Islamic system excels as a “people’s symbiosis” that originates from society itself with a religious and moral motive, while modern social security relies almost entirely on the state, making it vulnerable to financial crises and political volatility.
5. The forward-looking axis: the need to return
Vision for the future: The verse concludes with a futuristic vision that the Islamic economic system, with its Zakat system at its heart, is a “strategic solution” and not just a choice. In an era where capitalism suffers from severe cyclical crises (such as the Great Depression of 2008 and beyond to this day) and socialism fails, and social and spiritual gaps are exacerbated, there is a need for a middle model that respects the individual and society, the material and the spirit.
Conclusion: The world today is looking for an “economy with a soul”, having experienced a purely material economy that has gone bankrupt morally and spiritually. In this context, Zakat as a Rabbinic system offers a comprehensive vision to rebuild the economy on the basis of compassion, justice and balance, making it an urgent humanitarian necessity and not just a religious legislation for Muslims.
About the book: Scientific Interpretation and Scientific Miracles in the Holy Quran / The Cow Surah by Dr. Muhammad Bourbab
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Source: Published on Dr. Mohammed Bourbab's Facebook page on 2025-10-08
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