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Zakat eligible

UMMA teams are serving hot meals to families facing hunger, displacement, and crisis.

$176 raised of $80,000

Religious Donations

Zakat is kept apart. It goes only to campaigns marked Zakat eligible, and UMMA will not let it go anywhere else.

  • Zakat

    زكاة

    2.5% of your wealth, once a lunar year

  • Sadaqah

    صدقة

    Any amount, any time

  • Fidya

    فدية

    A full day of food for one person, per fast missed

  • Kaffarah

    كفارة

    One meal each for 60 people, per fast broken

  • Aqiqah

    عقيقة

    One sheep for a girl, two for a boy

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