Zakat Brochure 2015
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www.zakatindia.org Seats in Lok Sabha: 543 National Muslim Population (as per Census) 14.2% Hence there should be Muslims in the Lok Sabha 77 Average no. of Muslims in LS 1952 to 2014 25 In Uttar Pradesh Nagina Lok Sabha constituency has state’s highest percentage of Muslims 53.5% Muslims It is reserved for SCs Uttar Pradesh Assembly SCs % Muslims % 40 30 20 10 Delhi Assembly SCs % Muslims % 0 40 Bahraich Rae Bareli 30 20 10 0 Mangolpuri Seemapuri West Bengal Assembly SCs % Muslims % 60 45 30 15 Bihar Assembly SCs % Muslims % 30 0 Khargam Tufanganj 22.5 15 7.5 0 Bagaha Balia INTRODUCTION During the last six decades there has been tremendous increase in the number of poor orphans, widows, patients, disabled and needy among the Muslims of India who constitute 14.2 percent of the population of our beloved country (as per Census 2011). Such a pathetic condition is definitely a cause for serious national concern. Innumerable widows and poor women and men live under deplorable circumstances of want and squalor. Tens of thousands of children are not able to enjoy their innocence and have, instead, to work in tea shops and similar other places. Young girls in large numbers stare into the eyes of their poor parents anxiously awaiting matrimony. Sometimes people have no option but to beg on the street. Many of our youth do not have access to education despite having intellectual capacity to do so. Children are God's gifts to us. They become the medium of God's kindness to the humanity. They will InshaAllah constitute our future generations. It is crucial to ensure good education for them so that they may imbibe high moral values and a balanced personality. They are supposed to be a source of domestic and social pleasure and a channel for our ultimate salvation in the life hereafter. The community has moral obligation to take substantial steps for ensuring proper upbringing and educational development of the orphans and other poor children. There is Godly injunction for helping the orphans, widows, poor and the downtrodden. Faith binds us to give precedence to the requirement of the hungry, the orphan and the needy neighbour over ourselves. Thus some seriously concerned citizens of India got together and established Zakat Foundation of India in 1998. This organization has been able to bring happiness and prosperity in a large number of poor families and has been helping the orphans, widows, the old persons, the students, the girls for marriage the deprived and the displaced etc. Praise be to God, the Cherisher and Sustainer of the worlds, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. The ZFI's is now an ongoing organized process running continuously year after year. Yet thousands of hopefuls still look towards the Foundation which, though being conscious of their pain, finds itself incapacitated to help them for want of additional resources. Hence we request you, Ladies and Gentlemen, to generously contribute in the cause of humanity. Medical Services Mercy Home India The Sachar Committee Report indicates that the only place where Muslims are present in substantial number in India are the hospitals queues of patients. ZFI had already gauged this grim situation. Several years ago the Foundation established in Delhi a charitable medical centre known as Mercy Home India that is now running in Bawana area of Delhi where half a million poor people live without proper medical ZFI runs two Happy Homes (one each for girls and boys) in support. Hundreds of poor patients are attended to every day and New Delhi and a third one for boys in Bahraich (U.P.) Most medicines are dispensed. of the children are from riot affected areas of Assam & Gujarat. Besides, at our Zakat House, Madanpur Khader in Delhi, Hamdard At “Happy Homes (Boys & Girls)” arrangements are going Medical College is running a charitable medical center. on for food, shelter, clothing, education, medical assistance and entertainment etc for these children. They At Bawana there was no regular mosque. Hence, Masjid Fatima has study in the best school of the area. Happy Homes, have been established there in 2009 through non Zakat funds. their own transport. Additional tutors visit there for helping the children in homework and another set of tutors Also, at Bawana, ZFI is running its Shanno Tailoring & Knitting Institute impart scriptural and moral education. Besides, there is a and Fatima School cum Madarsa. staff of eighteen persons. Orphans and very poor children have now started joining from other states also. Large number of applications are still pending but the Seriously injured persons affected by natural calamities & communal Foundation does not have resources to admit additional riots are brought to Delhi for successful treatment. children. Whenever required, the Foundation organizes specialized medical aid at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and other hospitals. From ZFI's Department of Scriptural & Prophetic Traditions (DSPT), we publish quarterly bulletin 'Zakat India' and small pamphlets on various issues like consideration to neighbours, cultivating members of extended family, need for circulation of wealth in society, etc. Translation of Friday Khutbah is put up inside the masjids; books on standard khutbahs are distributed among imams & khateebs. Masjids are encouraged to open within their premises Daarul Mutala' wa Markaz Ittela'aat, i.e. Reading Room cum Information Centre. Muslims are advised to avoid offering congregational namaz on roads blocking the traffic. Assam As'haab-as-Suffa Institute In 2014 & 2015, fresh wave of riots & killings flared up in Kokrajhar area of Assam. More than 100 persons were killed and tens of for Imams & Khateebs: thousands were displaced. Earlier, in 2011-12 similar riots had In Zakat House, Madanpur Khadar, Delhi, ZFI has established occurred. ZFI established a new Happy Home in Bahraich for Assam As'haab-as-Suffa Institute for Imams & Khateebs. Monthly refresher orphans besides accommodating another about 25 riot affected girls courses are organized for Imams & Khateebs who are addressed by & boys of Assam in its Happy Homes in New Delhi. national & international level Ulema and Scholars; each session is followed by group discussion. Imams & Khateebs are empowered Future Programs with detailed information about welfare schemes available for Construction of Sir Syed Coaching & Guidance Centre for "Civil community uplift, nuances of Right to Information Act, importance Services" building complex in Delhi to accommodate and coach 500 of Adhaar card, Waqf laws & rules, vitality of being a part of the ZFI fellows together under one roof. Government etc. The significance of periodically explaining the Construction of new orphanage building in Bahraich and Darul meaning of Arabic Khutba as well as the Quranic ayaat recited Hijrat building for Rohingya refugees of Myanmar (Burma) in Delhi. during Friday Namaz is brought to their attention. Construction of old age home. Increase the number of widows & indigent persons getting stipend or monthly raw food items. Increase the number of ZFI-sponsored candidates under various employment programs. Make available medical vans in the needy areas. A large number of applications with diverse needs always remain in queue. These applicants can also be helped if we have more funds. Kashmir Flood Relief Overview: Items airlifted by ZFI to Srinagar: 25 boats for search and rescue. Daily shipments of over 20 cartons containing: Flash lights and batteries, Medicines, Potable Communal Riots Relief water, Baby formula, Sanitary napkins for women, 100 life jackets, Torches / batteries / Candles, Cereals and Oil, Milk/ Muzaffarnagar Sugar / Tea, Chlorine tablets to clean water, Phenyl, Blankets. 2 Sep: Heavy rains started in J&K. ZFI ramped up its large & Shamli Victims scale relief effort..... Provisions were purchased, but as reports continued In Sept 2013 there were communal riots our focus shifted to boat rescue missions to saving lives. ZFI's local contacts where 60 Muslims were killed and about updated our New Delhi office that bodies could be seen floating. Many villages in rural J&K were submerged. 5-7 Sep: Jhelum river burst its bank 100,000 became homeless. Since then, and flooded Srinagar. Power outage began and cell phone networks failed. Flooding continued into the night with fast paced water. Victims drowned ZFI teams visited there 51 times. Low- in the flooding water and pitch darkness of night. 8 Sep: Six boats purchased and airlifted directly into Srinagar by ZFI. Other ZFI teams scouted level ground was raised up, tents were India's coastal regions for further boats ready to be airlifted. Thirty local volunteers were recruited. For the next 15 days ZFI provided 18 hours daily rescue and relief effort. This eventually resulted in ZFI saving about 6000 persons' lives, and shifting another 9,000 out of helpless loneliness. 9 Sep: pitched, mattresses, sheets, clothes, ZFI's first relief team arrived in Srinagar. They brought with them 9 additional boats purchased and airlifted by ZFI into Srinagar. 10 Sep: ZFI staged quilts, blankets, utensils, food items and peaceful dharna (protest) at Jantan Mandar in New Delhi against the Central Government's insufficient response in providing relief. Charter of cash assistance were provided to about demands was submitted to the Prime Minister demanding 200 more helicopters and 1000 more boats to be sent to Kashmir for search and rescue twenty five thousand persons. Toilets missions. Each day 1 ZFI team member flew from Delhi to Srinagar taking with him/her 18-20 cartons of supplies. 13 Sep: ZFI purchased and were constructed. Medical camps were airlifted more boats into Srinagar. 15 Sep: ZFI teams in Kashmir continued to get SOS calls from across the J&K state. Entire families had got trapped organized including vaccination against on water-locked "islands" with their homes washed away. We pinpointed the families' location and directed our rescue boats.