Zakat Made Easy – III
Conditions and Calculation Methods This article is Part 3 of an ongoing series titled, ‘Zakat Made Easy’ – Continued from Part 2 Giving out…
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Zakat Made Easy – II
Analyzing Zakat in the Quran This article is Part 2 of an ongoing series titled, ‘Zakat Made Easy’ – Continued from Part 1 The…
Zakat Made Easy – I
What Is Zakat and Why Should I Pay It? This article is Part 1 of an ongoing series titled, ‘Zakat Made Easy’ The recipe for…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) through the Lens of Islamic Economics – VI
We underline some data privacy related guidelines and principles that do not violate the basic beliefs and culture of Islamic societies. They merit serious consideration…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) through the Lens of Islamic Economics – IV
Text analysis may be useful, for instance, for a waqf organization to know what the neighborhood feels about the public goods (education, healthcare, orphan care…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) through the Lens of Islamic Economics – II
Algorithms are essential building blocks of AI. In this blog I introduce the notions of data, algorithms and machine learning against the backdrop of the…
Fighting Covid-19 with Sadaqah & Faith
The numbers are scary. As we write this, there are four and a quarter hundred thousand humans reported to be affected by the pandemic Covind-19.…
The Issue of Anonymity in Digital Zakat
Identity brings in many benefits in the context of zakat distribution (as underlined in my earlier blog). Lack of identity or anonymity on the part…
The Issue of Identity in Digital Distribution of Zakat
My last blog ended on a note that digitizing zakat payments to beneficiaries would be more efficient, as compared to payments involving hard cash or…
Making Sense of Digital Distribution of Zakat
Zakat may be paid out by an individual muzakki (zakat payer) directly to an individual mustahiq (zakat beneficiary). This is the practice in countries where…