The Pasuruan Zakat Tragedy

IF Haji Syaikhon had followed the example of Khalifah Umar bin Khatthab, perhaps the distribution of zakat that left 21 people dead last Monday in the yard of the Raudlatul Mosque, Pasuruan, East Java, would not have happened. Khalifah Umar, one of four Islamic leaders who taught the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad, once carried a sack of grain to be given to a widow, whom he heard was boiling rocks to keep her hungry child happy. If people giv

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