appendix 15
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Purified Once: Zakat and Charity Received
Rashad Khalifa’s distinction between obligatory charity and spontaneous giving, the loan example of purification once, and the question of charity received. Continue reading
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Due Alms Paid on the Day of Harvest: Can the Obligatory Charity Be Paid a Year in Advance?
Zakat is calculated and given on receipt. Rashad’s practical allowances address small payments and income calculation; they do not create unlimited credit against future income. Continue reading
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The Five Prayers Stand: An Arabic-Grammar Demolition of the 3-Prayer, 2-Prayer, and No-Prayer Claims
Introduction: The Anti-Prayer Syndrome and Why It Fails Its Own Test A predictable syndrome has taken hold among a subset of self-identified Quranists: having rejected the fabricated narrations of the traditionalists, they keep cutting, and they do not stop until… Continue reading
