Institutionalising Zakat and solidarity is “a human tendency rather than a religious obligation in light of the human cost of conflicts in the world, HRH Prince Hassan, president of the Arab Thought Forum (ATF), has said. According to Islamic law, or Sharia, Zakat is one of the five pillars of Islam, a tax that requires paying 2.5 per cent of what a Muslim owns in cash money, gold, silver, cattle ...