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Zakat, which is an Arabic word, has several literal meanings such as alms, almsgiving, charity, purity, integrity, honesty, chastity and state or quality of being pure, upright, or righteous. Therefore, the word zakat زكاة or الزكاة is not all translated as charity or referring to zakat as understood in Islamic jurisprudence. In fact, the