MATW Zakat DistributionReport 2019-20Compiled and authorised by‘Muslims Around The World Project’ management committee.

Muslims Around The World Project (MATW)was established in 2015 by the late Ali Banatduring his battle with cancer. His mission wasto provide aid and relief to poverty-strickencommunities worldwide through MATW. Ourfirst project aimed at supporting orphans andwidows in Togo, Africa. Today, MATWmaintains its mission providing much neededaid around the world.

Our projects focus on establishing & providing:

Orphan Sponsorships

Housing for widows & orphans.

Sustainable Community Living

Food Distribution Projects

Clean Drinking Water

Schools & Education

Free Healthcare

Ali Banat was born and raised in Sydney,Australia where he led a short but successfullife. He was a self-made business man whohad everything going for him when suddenlyat the age of 29, he was diagnosed with a rareform of cancer and given only 7 months to live.With Ali’s remarkable mindset, he embracedhis illness as a “gift” seizing it as anopportunity to add more meaning to his life.As a result, he founded the MATW Project tohelp eradicate poverty and empower thesecommunities with a more sustainable future.

About MATW

The inspiring storyof Ali Banat

Salam.

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Zakat is one of the pillars of Islam that must be met by the Muslims who meet certain criteria. The word Zakat has two different connotations:

• Linguistical, Coming from the root ‘Zaka’ which means pure and clean.

• Islamically, Zakat means a particular amount that need be paid from particular categories of wealth, to particular categories of beneficiaries, with a particular criteria.

This means that Zakat is a blessing, purity, kindness, and a contribution to the development of entitled recipients.

There are eight categories of beneficiaries who are eligible to receive Zakat, which are clearly stated in the Quran (Surah At-Taubah:60)

Allah (swt) says in this verse: “Zakah expenditures are only for the poor and for the needy and for those employed to collect (zakah) and for bringing hearts together (for Islam) and for freeing captives (or slaves) and for those in debt and for the cause of Allah and for the (stranded) traveller - an obligation (imposed) by Allah. And Allah is Knowing and Wise.”

From the above aayah, we can see that the eight eligible categories of beneficiaries to receive Zakat are:

1) The Poor

2) The Destitute needy

3) Zakat Administrators

4) Those whose hearts are inclined towards Islam (including the new converts to Islam who lack economic support)

5) Freeing slaves

6) Those in debt (their debt is more than half of what they own)

7) In the way of Allah

8) Wayfarers (traveller who has been cut off from essential needs)

At MATW, we diligently observe these regulations under the guidance of learned scholars, and we realise that the objectives of Zakat are twofold. Spiritually, paying Zakat purifies and cleanses the payer, and helping the receiver.

MATW takes Zakat management very seriously for many important reasons, especially that it is one of the pillars of Islam, the special regulations and guidelines of this type of donation and huge impact that Zakat potentially has in changing the lives of those who are eligible to receive it.

Zakat in a nutshell

ZAKAT MANAGEMENT

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Zakat management is important to help Muslims perform the third pillar of Islam and establish its primary function as a means to alleviate poverty. Zakat management has been argued as the most critical aspect in determining the direction of the Zakat institutions as a systematic and efficient management would ensure optimization of the Zakat.

Generally, management of Zakat has been understood to involve two activities, which are:

• Collection, and • Distribution of Zakat funds.

One main objective of Zakat management is to achieve the best possible outcome in the timely collection and distribution of zakat as ordained in Islamic Shariah.

This main objective includes the assurance that the Zakat donations are disbursed to humanitarian aid projects that are eligible to receive Zakat donations, i.e. where the beneficiaries fall under one of the eight categories listed above.

MATW has been running many humanitarian projects, some of which are ongoing, some are one-off, and some are occasional. MATW also receives different types of donations, mainly Zakat, Sadaqah, Fitrah, and Qurban.

MATW endeavours to allocate each type of donation to its eligible projects. This report discusses the Zakat donations, both receivables and distribution.

The following table contains the projects that received Full or Partial Zakat funds, and how it maps to the Zakat-eligible categories.

Aspects of Zakat Management

Who received Zakat from us?

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10% - Togo Village: Recreational Area

45% - Togo Village: Oprhan Construction

2% - Togo Village: School Maintenance

2% - Togo Village: Orphan Bus

3% - Zakaat Al-Maal

3% - $10 Feed the needy Campaign

11% - Africa: Orphan Related Wages

2% - Agent Overheads1% - Chive Village:School

2% - General donations

6% - Africa Miscellaneous Expenses

13% - Ramadan Distribution

Summary of 2019 Zakat Al Maal Distribution

Jazakum Allah Khair6

Zakat Al Maal is the 3rd pillar of Islam. It is compulsory upon every male and female Muslim who meet the following conditions: 1) Possessing the required Nisaab (the

minimum amount of wealth that one must have before Zakat is payable).2) And have had the Nisaab for one whole year.

If the above conditions are met then according to Islamic regulations, you must pay 2.5% of one year’s total cumulative wealth.

2020 ZAKAT AL MAAL

GOLD85 Grams of 21K Gold1 Gram is $74.48 AUD

Therefore the Nisaab of Zakat Al Maal is:

$6,330.80 AUD

SILVER609 Grams of 100% pure Silver

1 Gram is $0.789 AUDTherefore the Nisaab of Zakat Al Maal is:

$467.10 AUD

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* For cash money, your Nisaab will be the Nisaab of Silver.

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