The intentional interpretation of zakat by Al-qunuji (d. 1307 Ah)

Abstract

The research talks about one of the important topics in financial transactions, which is the topic of Zakat, because of its great importance as it represents the goal of the Islamic approach in the concept of social solidarity through which Islam tried to preserve the rights of Muslims, especially the poor among them, by legislating the obligation of Zakat. We notice the emphasis on it through the many legislative texts and noble verses from which the importance of its legislation is understood. Jurists and interpreters of different schools of thought have addressed the importance of this obligation, so they expanded in addressing the explanations of the noble verses that mention it, and detailing everything related to it. Perhaps among the scholars who wrote a lot about it through his many books, and with a new interpretive approach is the objective interpretive approach that he adopted in most of his books, especially the interpretive ones, and this scholar is (Siddiq bin Hassan Al-Qanuji), who is one of the most important scholars of India in the modern era, due to the abundance of his books on the one hand and the fact that he is one of the great scholars in the Islamic world in its modern era on the other hand. Given the importance of Zakat, we have taken it as the subject of this research, which we have titled “The Purposeful Interpretation of Zakat by Al-Qanuji (d. 1307 AH).”