Zakat and Problem of Tamleek

This short book discusses an important issue of ownership in Zakat transfer. In traditional scholarship, it is considered a necessary condition that ownership per se must be transferred from the Zakat payer to the Zakat receiver for Zakat to be considered as paid. The argument for this viewpoint is that alphabet ‘Laam’ comes before the name of the recipient and one implication of this use of ‘Laam’ is ownership.