The Da’wah Front of Nigeria, an Islamic organization, announced that it had distributed N1.8 million in Zakat to the less fortunate in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
Speaking at the distribution exercise, the National Coordinator of the group, Alhaji Musliudeen Gafar, said the beneficiaries received cash, freezers, generators, industrial sewing machines, and printing machines.
Alhaji Gafar, who was represented by the Deputy National Coordinator, Professor Sheriff Adewuyi, explained that the exercise was designed in such a way that the beneficiaries were limited to the members of the group in Abeokuta due to limited resources.
He assured that the organization would monitor the beneficiaries’ use of the items.
“To the beneficiaries, I appeal to you to make judicious use of the items. We will continue to monitor you for the next six months, because the essence of it is for you to be successful in your trade so that you can also begin to pay Zakat in the nearest future,” he said.
Professor Sharafdeen AbdulKareem explained in his sermon titled ‘The Concept of Zakat, Sadaqah, and Economic Empowerment’ that Zakat was institutionalised to purify the wealth of the rich and distribute it among the poor.