Advice report

Smart cattle zakat program

Date: 01-11-2022

First: Consulting opened the "Sharek.Emirates" portal:

Advice topic:

The Fund seeks to involve the community and its customers in the development of services; We would love to know your opinion and impression about the idea of (smart livestock zakat program). It is a specialized application for calculating zakat on livestock, which depends on linking with the authorities concerned with counting and documenting the number of livestock in the country and linking it to the Emirates ID number.

The goal of advice:

Through this advice, the Zakat Fund aims to get to know your opinions and impressions about the idea of developing the program, to achieve your satisfaction and happiness.

Making the decision:

In Zakat Fund, after studying your impressions, aspirations and all opinions and ideas, we will improve and develop the program to achieve your satisfaction and happiness.

Second: Broadcasting the opinion poll on the "Sharik.Emarat" portal:

Where 30 respondents responded to the survey, and the result was according to the following details:

Q.1 Do you agree that the service of calculating the zakat of cattle be through a smart automated program?

The degree of their approval of the question was 89.66% of the total participants.

Q.2 Do you agree that the service of calculating zakat for cattle is linked to the Emirates ID?

The degree of their approval of the question reached 72.42%, and the reason for the decrease may be due to the fact that some dealers prefer not to disclose their properties.

Q.3 Do you support the program to estimate the zakat of cattle in cash (in UAE dirhams)?

The degree of approval of the question was 79.31%.

Q.4 Do you support that the program reminds you of the date of zakat on cattle on an annual basis?

The degree of approval of the question was 89.66%.

Q.5 Suggestions and Observations:

1.      This is a better and very good program for all those who have a livestock property.It will be a big help for them to automatically compute their zakat share liabilities in evert coming year to be donated to the needy individual.

2.      I really appreciate your highly effort to remind us & other people of the important of Zakat -Al-Anám . Regards;

Third: Recommendation:

Based on the above, the program will be designed according to the visions presented, and the proposals will be submitted to the concerned department.

And long as you in Allah Save and sponsorship

Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Hammadi

Director of Zakat Resources and Information Department