Skill Development

Zakah has a more significant role to play with regard to poverty alleviation strategies at the micro-level. To minimize the poverty for the productive group of population, the institution of Zakah should be able to provide the necessary input in terms of educating people. The specifice programs would be in providing support for education and skill development, provision of physical capital (like a taxi, sewing machine etc.) and making financial capital available to start a business, so the poor can be productively employed and earn a living.

Muslims can reduce poverty scenario permanently in a dramatic way by developing entrepreneurship by mobilizing their zakah fund in a prudent and deliberate way and thereby can increase gross domestic product (GDP).