The dictionary definition for the word zakât is growth and surplus. This form of worship, which is financial in nature, is called zakât because the wealth of the one who gives zakât will increase and be the means of blessings and rewards in the next world. There is no doubt that the wealth of the righteous who give zakât.....

Narrated Ar-Rubai binti Mu'awwidh that Rasullah (pbuh) sent a messenger to the village of the Ansar in the morning of the day of Ashura to announce, “Whoever has eaten something should not eat but complete the fast, and whoever is observing the fast should complete it.”  She further said, “Since then we used to observe fast on that da.....