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Your Zakat provides:
Emergency food assistance for families facing hunger
Support for families living below the poverty line
Essential healthcare for vulnerable mothers and children
Support for displaced communities affected by conflict and crisis
Your Zakat is a sacred trust
Zakat is not simply a charitable donation, it is an amanah - a trust from Allah (SWT). Through Human Appeal, it reaches eligible families facing poverty and crisis with care and dignity.
Trusted Impact, Delivered With Care
Your Zakat is distributed in accordance with Islamic principals and directed to those who need it most. Give with confidence with Human Appeal and bring meaningful relief to families facing hunger, crisis, poverty, and displacement across the world
Why Your Zakat is Essential
Across communities affected by conflict, poverty and displacement, families are struggling to meet even their most basic needs. Food insecurity is rising, healthcare remains out of reach for many, and instability leaves vulnerable households without support.
Zakat exists to address precisely these hardships. It is not voluntary charity, but a solution to end poverty by redistributing our wealth to those entitled to receive it. Through Human Appeal, your Zakat becomes practical, life-sustaining support delivered with accountability and in accordance with Islamic principles.
can provide a nutritious food parcel to a family in Gaza, with enough food to last a month.
can provide life-saving healthcare in Gaza.
can Install a deep water well, changing the future of an entire community.
Entrusting your Zakat to Human Appeal means placing your obligation in experienced and accountable hands. With decades of humanitarian work and structured Zakat management processes, we ensure that your Zakat is distributed responsibly and in line with Islamic principals.
Your contribution supports families facing extreme poverty, children in need of care, communities lacking clean water and individuals recovering from crisis. At a time of growing global hardship, fulfilling your Zakat through a trusted charity enables you to make a meaningful and measurable impact.
How Your Zakat Helped In 2024Zakat is one of the Five Pillars of Islam and is obligatory upon every eligible Muslim whose wealth exceeds the Nisab threshold for one lunar year. It requires the giving of 2.5% of qualifying wealth to those in need, serving both as a financial duty and a profound act of worship.
Allah (SWT) commands in the Qur'an, "Establish prayer and give Zakat" (2:43). Through Zakat, wealth is purifies, hearts are softened, and resources are redistributed within the Ummah to uphold dignity and care for the most vulnerable.
Unlike voluntary charity (Sadaqah), Zakat is a mandatory obligation, When calculated correctly and given sincerely, it protects your wealth, fulfils your responsibility and upholds those facing hardship.
For Muslims in Canada, giving Zakat online offers a secure and efficient way to discharge this obligation while responding to urgent humanitarian needs worldwide.
A Legacy of Mercy since 1991
For over three decades, we have served as a vessel for your compassion, becoming one of the UK's longest-serving and award-winning Muslim charities. Now operating in 27 countries, Human Appeal has transformed the lives of millions.
As we expand our services to Canada, we remain dedicated to implementing sustainable, high-impact projects. Your Zakat provides communities with long-term access to clean water, sustainable livelihoods, healthcare, and education—ensuring your blessings endure for years to come.
We maintain meticulous oversight of every project, utilizing engineers, architects, and specialists to guarantee that your donations are not only delivered but implemented safely and sustainably.
Join us. Give your Zakat and purify your wealth today.
100% Zakat Eligible & Scholar-Verified
Human Appeal’s scholar verified Zakat Policy ensures we make the most of your mercy using your Zakat donations in the most effective way possible to relieve the suffering of our Ummah all year long.
Zakat is one of the five pillars of Islam. It is a charitable duty that purifies wealth and is incumbent upon adult Muslims.
There are eight categories of people who are eligible to receive Zakat.
A poor person is someone whose property, in excess of his basic requirements, does not reach the nisab threshold. The recipient must not belong to your immediate family, therefore; your spouse, children, parents and grandparents cannot receive your zakat. Other relatives, however, can receive your zakat.
Donate your Zakat through Human Appeal safe in the knowledge that your donation will go directly to where it is most needed, making you mercy go further. We’ve been trusted to deliver your Zakat for over 30 years. All of our current projects are Zakat-applicable, as well as sustainable and impactful, continuing to benefit people for years to come.
You should pay Zakat if your wealth is equal to or above the Nisab (threshold), which varies each year and is based on the price of silver. The Nisab is approximately $404.32 so any money or assets you have above this amount hold a duty of Zakat. Our Zakat calculator automatically updates the Nisab based on the daily value of silver.
Any gold, silver, jewellery, stocks and shares, cryptocurrency, savings, money you have loaned to others, property, pensions, and business stock should be included in your Nisab calculation.
In concrete terms, you pay approximately 2.5% of your wealth to Zakat, but we’ve made this even easier for you! With our Zakat calculator to help you work out what you owe with an up-to-date Nisab value.
Once you have more Zakat-eligible wealth than the Nisab and a full lunar year has passed, then Zakat is due immediately, and is then due annually if your wealth stays above the Nisab.
Zakat applies to any savings that you have held for a full year. Usually this means that you input the minimum that you have had in your account since you last calculated your Zakat one year ago. Include all your bank accounts, cryptocurrency, PayPal balance, and any money at home or in hand. Any interest you have received at the bank is haram and must not be included.
If one has missed Zakat payments over the years, then one must make a calculated estimate of the Zakat missed for each year and discharge it accordingly. These payments are still binding on him even if many years have passed by and whether or not he knew they were obligatory.
We have a Zakat policy which has been reviewed by scholars and is available for download below.
*“Establish prayer and give zakat, and whatever good you put forward for yourselves—you will find it with Allah. Surely Allah sees what you do.”*
Source - The Holy Qur’an, 2:110
Please note that when you donate to our Zakat Fund, your donations don’t need to cover the full value of any project and so will be used wherever they’re most needed. If you’d like to support a particular project with your Zakat, please donate directly to that project through its dedicated donation page.
