Abstract: The aftermath of the colonial system have left Muslim communities in a lot of social, religious and constitutional dilemma making it difficult for Muslim communities to adopt or adapt the already replaced Islamic legal systems in favor of the conventional systems. The advent of colonial Masters have seriously affects the traditions of Muslim and abandoned or reduced most of Muslim collective practices to individual. Zakat is among the leading aspects of collective practices made compulsory by Islam with a view to reducing poverty, establishing social welfare through assistance, love and care. Zakat is the third pillar of Islam second to salat. Despite the obligation of zakat and its economic role in the society, the new systems could not recognize. However, many Muslims could not forget the implications of abandoning such important act of ibadah and wrath of Allah that befalls on individuals for refusing to pay zakat. Therefore, upon independence, agitations for the return to zakat practices is intensified among many Muslim communities. The indices of Muslim communities after independence indicates that there are forty Muslim states in the world, sixteen out of which established zakat institutions backed by government laws while others continue to look into ways of fulfilling the religious duties with or with government backed laws. In fact, recent studies indicates that countries that could not have state backing for zakat institutions have higher percentage of zakat collections. This study explores the practices of Non-governmental zakat management among some Muslim communities. The contribution of this study is to guide communities whose legal systems is yet to accept the zakat systems under its legislation.
Keywords: Non-governmental Organization (NGO), Muslim communities, zakat institutions.
Title: Non-governmental Organization (NGO) Zakat Management Model: An Exposition
Author: Sheriff Muhammad Ibrahim
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations
ISSN 2348-1218 (print), ISSN 2348-1226 (online)
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