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These categories are mentioned in the Qur'an which include: the poor, the needy, the destitutes, the captives, the ones in debt, in the cause of Allah, the wayfarers and for those who collect it. Literally, it means "purification;" it is a compulsory 2.5% tax on one of three categories of wealth 1) metal coins (gold, silver, etc.), 2) grain crops (barley, wheat, grain, rice, etc.), and 3) animals raised for food consumption. Zakiat is somehow a complicated subject.

For details, the readers are advised to consult books dealing with fiqh . Among its types are: zakat al-mal (taxable wealth accumulated during one full year) and zakat al-fitr (a tax to be paid by the head of a household at the end of the fast of the month of Ramaan).

Zaman or Dhamaan ضمان: guarantee, security, guaranty, warranty; variations: ضمان لمحكمه recognizance, ضمان إضافي collateral security; حسن سلوك ضمان security for good behavior; شخصي ضمان personal security; عقاري ضمان real estate security; لياقه ضمان warranty of fitness; مطلق ضمان absolute guaranty Zawaj زواج: marriage, legal, legitimate and permissible cohabitation; spouses are: Zawj زوج husband and Zawja زوجه wife Zawal زوال: disappearance, passage, lapse, discontinuance.

It also refers to the certain times related to the position of the sun: It may be a sunset غروب or midday, meridian منتصف النهار. Zendiq or Zindiq or Zindeeq زنديق: heretic, one who believes neither in the Unity of the Creator ( Tawhid ) nor in the Hereafter, one who goes so far into innovated and deviant beliefs and senseless sophistry without sticking to the truth which is already stated in the Qur'an and the Sunna to such an extreme extent that he actually leaves Islam altogether.

According to Lisan al-Arab lexicon by Ibn Manzour, this word is not originally Arabic; its root is the Persian zand-kirai which means one who believes that life is eternal and that there is no life hereafter. Zihar ظهار: the making of a similitude between the back of one's wife and that of his mother; i.e.