Keeping the State Out
Monday, May 10, 2021
The National Zakat (compulsory alms) Agency, Baznas, is once again calling for civil servants and private employees to be obliged to pay zakat through compulsory salary deductions. The state should not intervene with the management of alms.
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THE government should reject the proposal from the National Zakat (obligatory alms) Agency (Baznas), which wants a 2.5 percent deduction from the salaries of civil servants and private employees to pay the alms obligatory for all Muslims, known as zakat. But alms, like prayers and fasting, is a private matter that the state must not intervene in. Let muzaki (those obliged to pay zakat), chose their own way.
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