Please also tell about the condemnation of those who do not pay Zakaat?
Answer:
It is in the Holy Quran that those who hoard up gold and silver and do not spend in the way Allah i.e. do not pay Zakaat therefrom, give them good news of the grievous torment when (on the Doomsday) their gold and silver will be heated in the fire of hell and their foreheads, sides and backs will be branded therewith. (And they will be told that) this is your property which you had hoarded up. Now have the taste of your hoarding!
This putting of impressions on the foreheads, backs and sides will not be as light as to just melt the fat, but a Hadees explains the horrible plight of such people: On the Doomsday, the plates of fire will be heated up in the fire of hell for the one who was in possession of gold and silver but did not pay their due (did not pay Zakaat therefrom) with which his sides, forehead and back will be branded and on cooling down those will again be heated up and applied to and this painful process will continue (the Doomsday will be of fifty thousand years) until the settlement of accounts of all mankind. Thereafter he will go to paradise or hell as the case may be. And in regard to camels, it is related that the one who does not pay their due (does not pay Zakaat on them) will be laid on the plain field on the Doomsday and his camels (who will be then very healthy and hefty) will tread upon and bite him in batches one after another. Likewise, the cows and goats will strike their owner (who does not pay Zakaat on them) with their horns and tread upon him with their hooves. It is related in other Ahaadees that whatever merchandise, goods are lost in land or in the sea are lost because of non-payment of Zakaat therefrom. Another Hadees says that if a nation, community withholds payment of Zakaat, it is overtaken by famine. Yet another Hadees says that first of all three persons will be cast into hell and one of them will be a wealthy man who does not pay Allah's dues i.e. Zakaat.
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