Crossword-Solution: ZAK 3 letters, 24 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Thus Al-lslam is, as far as I know, the only faith which makes a poor-rate (Zakát) obligatory and which has invented a property-tax, as opposed the unjust and unfair income-tax upon which England prides herself.

Musa'b further relates, from El-Zahri, that the (gold) mine defrayed the Zakßt or poor-rate: he also said that the proportion was one-fifth (= 2 per cent.); like that which the people of El-Irßk (Mesopotamia) take to this day from the (gold) mines of El-Fara' (sic), and of Nejrßn, and of Z·l-Marwah, and of Wady El-Kura[EN#60] and others.

Salt is obtained in some places from the red earth, as also alum an earthy substance of a whitish or brown colour, and irregular surface, sent in quantities to Mindosh, called Zak.

Vanderkemp bent his steps towards Kafirland, three other missionaries, by name Kitcherer, Kramer, and Edwards, proceeded to the Zak River, between four hundred and five hundred miles north-east of Cape Town.

Since such issues as the limits for exemption, the categories of income concerned, the frequency of payments, and the scale of rates for the various categories of Zakát are not mentioned in the Qur’án, these matters will have to be set forth in the future by the Universal House of Justice.