Faithful Reflections

Zakat cleans and grows wealth — Riba eats it. One circulates, the other concentrates. Zakat vs Riba in Islam - Why Islam Promotes Charity and Forbids Interest A simple, honest attempt to answer a young brother who asked: If interest is haram, how do I save for my kids? August 2025 • Kathmandu • Not a fatwa, please check with trusted scholars On this page 1. Why I wrote this 2. The big idea — give vs take 3. What is Zakat? Purification and growth 4. Who gets Zakat? The 8 groups 5. What Quran and Sunnah say about Zakat 6. What is Sadaqah? Beyond money 7. Zakat vs Sadaqah — difference 8. Why Riba (interest) is haram 9. Other haram earnings — gambling and uncertainty 10. When Zakat actually ended poverty 11. What this means for us today 1. Why I wrote this A few months ago, a young Nepali Muslim brother asked me after Jumuah: "If interest is haram, how am I supposed to save for my children's education?" I didn...