Someone said: "If we pay Zakat properly then there will be no poor". I beg to differ. It could have been true when the Muslim population was within certain limits, but no more when we have over half a billion of them living below the poverty line.
Zakat must be paid (collected) but utilised properly.
A needy had approached the Holy Prophet (PBUH) for help but he asked him to sell anything that he had and buy an iron head of the axe with it.
He did and the Prophet himself fixed the wooden handle in it for him to cut the wood from the jungle to sell. The man prospered after some time.
In the early fifties Pakistan army received a few thousand pounds from the British M.O.D. as its share of war reparation for the veterans of the 2nd World War.
General Shahid Ali instead of doling out petty amounts to the war veterans and their widows invested it all in a small cereal factory producing Fauji Corn Flakes.
Today the Fauji Foundation is the largest industrial complex in the country, providing employment to thousands and spending millions on the welfare of the ex-servicemen.
Why can't we have Zakat Foundation on similar lines? It will help greatly to alleviate poverty in Pakistan.
But, oooops, will the Mullah allow investing Zakat money in a revenue generating industrial venture?
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