infos: zakat means alms for the poor. However, there are 7 people able to receive zakat. that is

1. fakir – poor that he/she didn’t earn a penny and didn’t have job
2. miskin – poor that he/she earn some money however, it’s not enough to support a living.
3. amil – a person that collect zakat/distribute zakat
4. muallaf – a new muslim reverts/converts
5. riqab – A slave that want to free himself by paying some money
6. al-gharimin : a person that loans a money and can’t repay them.
7. Fisabilillah – those who do job for islam
8. ibnus-sabil : those traveller that cut-off without resources during their travel

this was taken from Wikipedia Malaysia. I retain some arabic term to kept accountability plus give u extra info :) However, as for ‘if you’re staying in a 3-star hotel and above, you aren’t exactly poor ;)’ that act of putting al-Quran inside a hotel was fall under category #7, Fisabilillah that is a job for islam, which is to spread info about Islam. FYI, there’s a muslim students who also receive fund/zakat because the act of studying also considers as Fisabilillah. But only for those who are poor, not the student who have a lot of money.

However it really saddens me because of Hanky-Panky among muslims in Zakat Department when managing our alms/zakat. some people really deserve it but bureaucracy will gets over it. Like what nazroll said, if they fcuked things up, they ask for it.I remember my muslim reverts friends who face difficulty to ask for zakat/alms.

Hope that clarify your point. feel free to ask any questions :)

The same mind set should apply to the Muslims, don’t do stupid stuff like ban Yoga.

Stop with the double standards. The world is free and so should it’s people.

THE WORLD IS JUST AWESOME!!

These are from zakat payments though… if only we had the freedom of information act (foia).

Anyway, don’t remind me.. please don’t. I get so frustrated every time I know how much I’m paying for the tax and how fun they’re spending it over there.

yc