Zakat Essential to Eradicate Poverty: Jordan’s Prince Hassan

The importance of Zakat in eliminating poverty was highlighted by Jordan’s HRH Prince Hassan, President of the Arab Thought Forum (ATF), at a recent virtual meeting held by the ATF to discuss the role of Zakat and Awqaf in mitigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on social and economic levels.

According to Prince Hassan, institutionalising Zakat and solidarity should be considered a human tendency rather than a religious obligation, particularly regarding illness, sorrow and poverty among refugees and displaced persons, citing that 80% of the world’s refugees were Muslims. Prince Hassan also drew attention to the success of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in fortifying inter-dependence and s...