Helping refugees in Malaysia: how zakat is making a difference / Mohd Fazil Jamaludin, Mohd Shafiz Saharan and Khairul Azfar Adzahar

All qualified Muslims have the duty of giving a set percentage of their income to the less fortunate as zakat, which is one of the Five Pillars of Islam. Reducing poverty and enhancing the social welfare of the Muslim community are the primary objectives of zakat. In recent years, the global refugee crisis has gotten significantly worse, and numerous refugees from other nations have settled in Malaysia.