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Jumat, 13 Agustus 2010

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I was wondering about the number 2.5%.  This number is believed by the moslems (at least in Indonesia)  to show the amount that we have to give out to the poors.  So if you have USD100, you have to give out USD 2.5 for the poor.   They say, 2.5% of our belongings are not ours, it belongs to other people.  Therefore, you have to give it out.  This is called zakat.
The thing is, I looked and looked in the Qur’an and I couldn’t find the number 2.5%.  No wonder, because I don’t think the Arabs knows percentiles for calculation during those times.  So, who invented the number 2.5%?  And how do you calculate 2.5%, is it from the total amount of money, is it from what is saved i.e. not including daily operational money, or is it every time we receive money we have to cut 2.5% off from that?   Then, of course, the usual happens….long discussions and sect of how you pay zakat.
I am a big believer of giving.  A friend of mine said that receiving makes you live but giving makes you alive.  How true.  When I give somebody a gift and see them smile and appreciate the gift, it makes me happy.  In fact, when I do something good to others, I feel happy.  No matter what form the gift is.  Say, if I could help my sister solve her problems and my advise is taken and it worked.  That makes me happy.
So, My Busy Brain started to think, why only 2.5%?  In Qur’an, it is stated that a moslem should give.  Should share.  Should help the unfortunate.  That should have no limit.  When people start giving numbers and defining how much, then they start to bargain and go into details and forget about the spirit of  the zakat itself.
I believe what God told us in the Qur’an is a way so human will live happily.  Same to all religions, the holy books are guidelines on how to live on earth so that life has a meaning.  And to me, giving 2.5% of my belonging is just a click from the ATM machine.  Just give to any bank or organization that manages zakat, task done.  But is that it?  For some reason, I don’t become a better person just giving money to some people that I don’t even know and not knowing where the money goes and how my money will benefit.  I’m sure the spirit of zakat is not that.  If so, why are there still so many poor people, crime and corruption?  Talking about corruption, do corruptors think if they spend 2.5% of their corrupt money then they have launder the money?
If you believe that time is money, start thinking about time that you give for others.  Time to listen.  Time to help.   Time to spend hours in the traffic to pick up your loved ones from one place.  Time you spent to help a little kitten on the street.  Time to listen to your subordinates and mentor them at work.  Time to visit our old parents and relatives.  Time and places you take and go to, to do good for yourself,  to make your heart move.  If we are awake for 16 hours a day, had 2.5% of that time, which is 0.4 hours, which is 24 minutes of our woken up times, to wholeheartedly give our time, thought and love and care to those we care?  Pat our friends back to make them feel better?  Now, are we stingy to give our time?
In a different way, if I calculate all the time that I have spent for helping my family and friends, and apply my daily rate, I might as well have exceeded my 2.5% of the conventional zakat!
When we start calculating what we give and expect to receive from what we give, that is not ibadah anymore, it is called investment.  We start making things complicated.  But if we use our heart to give and do good, we don’t care how much we give, how much time we spend.  That is called love.   It is a practice of loving and caring, and that is the spirit of zakat.  It is not exclusive for the rich and wealthy only.  Everybody can practice giving to those really unfortunate: giving love to those who are not loved.  And I’m sure that is what God wants us to do in every teaching, to love and spread the spirit of love.

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