Editing Zakat (section)

==Etymology==
It came from Arabic root z-k-w (ز ك و), meaning to purify.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cal.huc.edu/oneentry.php?lemma=zkw+N&cits=all|title=The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon|website=cal.huc.edu}}</ref><ref name=fvbb1>{{cite book |author= Benda-Beckmann, Franz von |title= Social security between past and future: Ambonese networks of care and support |publisher= LIT Verlag, Münster |year=2007 |isbn= 978-3-8258-0718-4 |page=167|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fVw6QB-kTYwC&pg=PA167 |quote= ''Zakat'' literally means 'that which purifies'. It is a form of sacrifice which purifies worldly goods from their worldly and sometimes impure means of acquisition, and which, according to God's wish, must be channeled towards the community.}}</ref> Zakat is considered a way to purify one's income and wealth from sometimes worldly, impure ways of acquisition.<ref name=fvbb1/><ref>Ridgeon, Lloyd (2003), ''Major World Religions: From Their Origins to the Present'', Routledge, {{ISBN|978-0415297967}}, pp. 258: "The Quranic term zakat came to signify a form of obligatory charity or alms tax that was seen as a means of purifying the believer's wealth."</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author1=Dean, H. |author2= Khan, Z. |name-list-style=amp |year=1998 |title= Islam: A challenge to welfare professionalism |journal= Journal of Interprofessional Care |volume= 12 |issue=4 |pages= 399–405 |quote= Zakat purifies the wealth of the individual |doi= 10.3109/13561829809024947}}</ref><ref>{{qref|9|103|b=y}}</ref> According to [[Sachiko Murata]] and [[William Chittick]], "Just as ablutions purify the body and [[Salah|salat]] purifies the soul (in Islam), so zakat purifies possessions and makes them pleasing to God."<ref>Murata, S. and Chittick, W. C. (1994), ''The vision of Islam'', IB Tauris, London, {{ISBN|978-1557785169}}, p. 16</ref><ref name=Heck />