- zakat
- the third financial pillar among the religion's five great pillars
- the nisab (threshold)
- the threshold wealth must reach for the duty to fall
- 2.5 percent
- the fixed share made obligatory in the wealth surplus to need
- the poor
- the first class among those deserving of it in the law
- the needy
- the second class among those deserving of it in the law
- the debtors
- the class whose heavy debts are lifted by the zakat
- worship
- the act that is an ordained worship, not voluntary charity
- the treasury
- the Islamic state's treasury in its early flourishing centuries
- surplus wealth
- the wealth exceeding one's need and necessary wants
- sadaqah (voluntary)
- the voluntary alms given beyond the ordained duty
- purification
- her name's meaning in the language, from purity and growth together
- the eight classes
- the eight classes the noble Qur'an itself enumerated
