This paper investigates the underlying psychological and practical factors that motivate Muslims to pay their mandatory religious alms to specific Charity Organizations (COs) in Pakistan. Moving away from traditional quantitative approaches, the authors employ a qualitative phenomenological design, utilizing in-depth interviews with 16 participants from diverse urban and rural backgrounds.
The book explains that the objective of religious life should be to change this world, including the personality of the individual himself and extending to the whole of human society, so as to reconstruct it in accordance with the will of Allah as revealed in the Qur’an. The religion should be understood directly from the Qur’an aided by the Sunnah, and all human interpretations should be treated as secondary, tentative and, in principle, liable to error and open to correction.
Islamic Economics Project 