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In reference to Al Qaradhawi 1999 zakat is an act of worship to Allah and is the third among the five pillars of Islam Al Qaradhawi and Dr Hussein Shahatah 1999 defined zakat on salary and income with the term zakat al mal al mustafad whereby it brings a meaning that zakat upon the source of salary earned or works done and any professional income during a lifetime retirement or death In technicality zakat is defined as a determining share of one s wealth to be distributed among the lawful beneficiaries that are entitled for the wealth as prescribed by Allah in the Holy Quran This however Abdul Majid M Z 1992 explained that from a fiqh perspective zakat is defined as a payment of certain portion of certain type of wealth for the benefits of certain groups that have been specified by Allah This categories are divided into eight fragments as previously discussed in part one of this research paper would be the poor the needy those employed to administer zakat those whose hearts are to be reconciled those in slavery those in debt those in the way of Allah and the destitute traveler
