The Crescent Project’s Zakaat Program

Al-Ghazzali Centre has an established Humanitarian and Charitable program, through its Crescent Project activities. Crescent Project’s “Feeding the Homeless” project provides assistance to anyone in Australia, particularly the homeless, regardless of gender, race or religion.

Al-Ghazzali Centre has extended this program of work to also provide continuing assistance to those in need in the Muslim Australian community who are eligible recipients of Zakaat.

The established Islamic Principle in distributing Zakaat requires the collected funds through Zakaat to be spent locally. For us, it is Australia. Zakaat funds over and above the amount needed to help Muslim Australians, can then be allocated internationally, which also has very specific conditions for a valid transfer of wealth from the Zakaat payer to the recipient.

Al-Ghazzali Centre is committed to upholding this Islamic principle without compromise.

Who has received funds to date?
An audit of last year’s Zakaat distribution in Australia is highlighted in the charts below:

Details on case studies of some of these recipients can be found in the downloadable flyer