FOND ZEKJATA IZ KUVAJTA - PRIMJER SAVREMENE ORGANIZACIJE ZA PRIKUPLJANJE I DISTRIBUCIJU ZEKJATA
ZAKAH HOUSE OF KUWAIT - EXAMPLE OF CONTEMPORARY ORGANISATION FOR COLLECTING AND DISTRIBUTION OF ZAKAH

Summary/Abstract: Kuwait Zakah Fond (Bayt al-zakah) is a very interesting model of a contemporary organization for collection and distribution of zakah in the world today. During the second part of the twentieth century, Kuwait people as well as the other Muslim nations in the world, having in mind practice of Prophet Muhammad, p.b.u.h., and understanding zakah as a potential economic resource, have tried to do organised collection and distribution of the zakah. The analyses show how a religious duty in its core can be realized in the contemporary circumstances in a certain socio-political environment and improve socio-economic life of some social layers of the population. This Fond also receives an annual subvention from the Kuwait Government and it is under the competence of the Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs. But Zakah House is not the only institution in Kuwait that collects and distributes zakah and therefore it was necessary to develop an organization which would gain the confidence of the citizens who would pay zakah and give their donations to it. The Zakah House has been present in Bosnia since 1992, since the aggression against our country and from then it has been acting within the Kuwait General Committee for Help and many citizens of Bosnia have been beneficiaries of its funds.

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