Salam Reader, Here's what we're serving in this week's MuslimMoney Meal: 🥗 Starter: the story behind the zakat threshold 🍔 Main Course: ZakatView 🇨🇦 now supports business owners 🍰 Dessert: Saadi Shirazi on zakat and gardening Starter 🥗 🔗 See on Instagram Main Course 🍔 Since launching ZakatView last week, I’ve received a lot of helpful feedback on ways to make the tool more useful. Initially, I built ZakatView to help navigate the various scholarly opinions on zakat, with a particular focus on...

Salam Reader, We're halfway through Ramadan which means we're also halfway through Zakat season. If you're like me, you use an online zakat calculator in Ramadan to help determine how much you owe. In years past, I often found myself jumping between multiple tools, considering varying scholarly opinions, manually calculating individual portions, and eventually piecing it all together. I wanted a single calculator that simplified this entire process. So I built ZakatView 🇨🇦 - a smart Zakat...

Salam Reader, Nine months ago, I set out to help a few family members write their Islamic Wills. I thought I’d capture the process in a simple article. That’s not what happened. The more I dug in, the more I realized how much was missing from existing resources. Lawyers ensure legal compliance. Imams emphasize justice and equity. As a teacher, I wanted to focus on making the process easier to understand and implement. Wills don’t just distribute assets. They can heal rifts—or deepen them....