Can Zakah Fund Advocacy? A Defining International Scholarly Conversation | Symposium Highlights

For the first time, leading scholars from the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Germany, Holland, Denmark, New Zealand and Australia gathered for the inaugural Zakat Symposium, hosted by the Foundations of Legacy platform - two days of open and closed sessions on one urgent question: how should the ummah understand and deploy Zakat in a minority context? This is not charity as usual. Across these talks the scholars wrestle with the hardest questions facing Muslim giving today: Is Zakat merely a funding mechanism, or a trust whose boundaries were set by Allah? Why, despite record levels of giving, could the ummah not get a loaf of bread or a glass of water into Palestine? Can the classical categories - those whose hearts are reconciled (muallafat al-qulub) and freeing the captive (al-riqab) - be extended to advocacy, lobbying and political work? Who holds our charities accountable, and who holds the scholars accountable? A landmark conversation on Zakat, public interest (maslaha), advocacy and the future of Muslim institutions in the West. Featuring (among others): Sheikh Dr. Sajid Umar, Sheikh Dr. Hatim al-Haj, Sheikh Joe Bradford, Sheikh Haytham Haddad, Sheikh Haytham Tamim, Sheikh Suhaib Hassan, Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Khatir, Sheikh Yusuf Wahab, Mufti Barakatullah, Sheikh Dr. Akram Nadwi, Mufti Abdurahman Mangera, Sheikh Zakaullah Saleem among many others. 📌 Subscribe for more from the Foundations of Legacy platform.