Doha, Qatar: The Department of Islamic Research and Studies at the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs has published the volume No. 197 in the series of Umma book on Zakat and question of development and distributive justice.
The author of the book Dr. Idris Maqbool discusses the philosophy of Islamic economy, its values, aims and ethical characteristics which distinguishes it from the remaining statutory economic systems and reveals the values of the holy Qur’an, along with the principles that regulate the handling of money by Muslims.
The author highlights Zakat philosophy and its dimensions, in terms of Shariah vision in great depth, its economic engineering, role in development, investment and financing, as well as the available tools to upgrade investment dimension for this prescribed Islamic pillar.
In addition, the book strives to answer a question on the civilisational development and resurgence through Zakat pillar and good investment in resources, in addition to discussing the dimension of possible relationship between Zakat and development, prospects of active contributions of Zakat to development and resurgence programmes, achieving distributive justice and presenting genuine image.
The book came in key five chapters and found that Zakat in Islamic solidarity economy is a merely balanced engineering structure that underpins collective spirit with a binding nature that carries out balanced roles that reflect cultural and social intelligence by virtue of Islam and Islamic education.
It concludes that the development Islam advocates for is not merely a literal quote or metaphor, but rather a responsible development which is based on education and strives to liberate human from within prior to being liberated from without and offers him some kind of independence.
