پنجاب میں سرکاری سطح پر زکوۃ کی تقسیم کا طریقہ کار اور شرعی حکم

Government Mechanism and Shariah Ruling over Zakat Distribution at Provincial Level in Punjab

Abstract

Zakat Cell, organized by the Ministry of Religious Affairs, Government of Pakistan, makes the annual budget of Zakat data obtained from the State Bank of Pakistan on June 30 of every year and then after the approval of this budget by the Prime Minister, Zakat Cell distributes the zakat with a fixed rate based on the Finance Commission Award (NFC) to all provinces. After transferring the zakat received from the central zakat fund to the provincial zakat fund, the provincial zakat fund would distribute all the received zakat amounts in five expenditures i.e., Health Centres, Educational Scholarships [General and Technical, Living Allowance, Marriage Grant, Social Welfare, with the cooperation of its other sources, namely the provincial volunteer zakat donor and the provincial online zakat fund. The writer also organized interviews and surveys in the context of qualitative research in this paper so that the reality can be understood correctly. During the research, the writer got to read and see some issues in the distribution system of zakat at the official level in Punjab. Therefore, the writer prepared a petition and was later sent to the dar al-ifta of the ten major religious universities of Pakistan to obtain Shari'a guidance about this research. Below is a description of some of the Shariah deficits, which have been summarized in the context of the data received by Dar Ul-Iftas and other fatwas. Some of the deficits are giving Zakat to non-Muslim poor, payment of Zakat more than the Nisab-e-Zakat amount, rehabilitation of flood victims and promotion of receiving Zakat i.e., advertisement from Zakat wealth, the share of minorities in the jobs of Zakat and Ushar Department and sharing of donations in the period of Zakat Fund