Islamic Religious Knowledge Questions and Answers

Zakat on wealth is based on the value of all of one's possessions.It is customarily 2.5% (or 1/40) of a Muslim's total savings and wealth above a minimum amount known as nisab, but Islamic scholars differ on how much nisab is and other aspects of zakat.According to Islamic doctrine, the collected amount should be paid to the poor and the needy, Zakat collectors, recent converts to Islam, those to be freed from slavery, those in debt, in the cause of Allah and to benefit the stranded traveller.

Ref: (Q 96: 1-5)
(96:1) Recite in the name of your Lord Who created.
(96:2) created man from a clot of congealed blood.
(96:3) Recite: and your Lord is Most Generous.
(96:4) Who taught by the pen.
(96:5) taught man what he did not know.

Muhammad's first revelation was an event described in Islamic tradition as taking place in 610 AC, during which the Islamic prophet, Muhammad was visited by the angel Jibrīl, known as Gabriel in English, who revealed to him the beginnings of what would later become the Qur'an.

The event took place in a cave called Hira, located on the mountain Jabal an-Nour, near Mecca. As for the exact date of this event, it has been calculated to be on Friday, the 17th of Ramadan at night, i.e. August 6, 610 C.E. - when Muhammad was 40 lunar years, 6 months and 12 days of age, i.e. 39 Gregorian calendar years, 3 months and 22 days.[1] [2] 6 August 610 (Julian) was actually a Thursday. The proleptic Gregorian calendar is two days ahead in the sixth century and three days ahead in the seventh.

Amr ibn al-As al-Sahmi (Arabic: عمرو بن العاص‎, romanized: ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ al-Sahmī; c. 573 - 664) was the Arab commander who led the Muslim conquest of Egypt and served as its governor in 640-646 and 658-664. The son of a wealthy Qurayshite, Amr embraced Islam in c. 629 and was assigned important roles in the nascent Muslim community by the Islamic prophet Muhammad. The first caliph Abu Bakr (r. 632-634) appointed Amr as a commander of the conquest of Syria. He conquered most of Palestine, to which he was appointed governor, and led the Arabs to decisive victories over the Byzantines at the battles of Ajnadayn and Yarmouk in 634 and 636

The second period of Ali's life began in 610 when he declared Islam at age 10 and ended with the Hijra of Muhammad to Medina in 622.[1] When Muhammad reported that he had received a divine revelation, Ali, then only about ten years old, believed him and professed to Islam.