The latter cannot be seen except as part of a general social system in Islam.

The latter cannot be seen except as part of a general social system in Islam. Zakat is one of the most significant of all rites. Its use as a tool to implement social security in the Islamic society, as we have seen in the previous text, is alone sufficient to distinguish it from all other rites of an "individualistic" nature. This proves that it is not merely an individual form of worship, an ethical exercise for the rich to be…