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Obligations Beyond Riba

Avoiding riba is necessary but not sufficient. Three obligations complete the picture of shariah-compliant wealth: zakāt done right, inheritance secured under secular succession law, and the honest audit of halal income.

A Muslim who pays riba-free but neglects zakāt, mismanages inheritance, or earns from a poisoned source has not actually solved the wealth-and-religion problem. They have solved one quadrant of it. This section is the other three.

The three obligations

The believer who avoids ribā but ignores zakāt has misunderstood what shariah-compliant wealth is for. Avoidance is the half; deployment toward the obligations is the other. The two together complete the picture.
Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī· al-Ḥalāl wa al-Ḥarām fī al-Islām

Why this section exists separately

These three obligations cut across every tier of the Playbook. They apply to the Tier 1 graduate building an emergency fund as much as to the Tier 3 family with significant capital. Putting them in their own section lets them be the standalone reference they need to be.

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