Zakat is one of the five pillars of Islam. According to zakat, a person needs to give a fixed portion of his wealth to poor and needy people. Prophet Muhammad himself started the practice and this played a very crucial role in the history of Islam. Initially, Prophet Muhammad made it a voluntary offering. However, in the later stages he made certain forms of Zakat obligatory.

Muhammad's first successor, caliph Ab Bakr, was the first person for instituting the system of statutory Zakat. Then the protocol of Zakat collection was changed and it was decreed by the third caliph Uthman ibn Affan during his reign that only apparent wealth will be taxed and this limited Zatak being produced on agricultural produce and agricultural land. The practice of the state administering the Zakat was short lived and quickly ended during the reign of Umar bin Abdul Aziz who reigned from 717 AD to 720 AD.

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