NAZAS lifts widows, debtors, students

Tajudeen Adebanjo

THE Nasfat Agency for Zakat and Sadaqat (NAZAS), an arm of the Nasrul-Lahi-L-Fatih Society of Nigeria (NASFAT), has empowered widows, debtors and youths.

The group also added five Imams to the 12 that already benefitted from the Nazas Imam Health Scheme

At the Third Public Disbursement held in Alausa, NAZAS General Manager Alhaji Muftau Adelotan, said over N3 million was disbursed.

The event also featured free medical service.

Adelotan described the widows are special beings who need special attention.

“We should always try and assist widows and orphans because Allah sees them as those who are in the wilderness without any helper. If we can assist these people in our community, crime rates and destitute issues will be reduced,” he said.

He likened those who are in debt as people living in bondage.

Islam, he said, “teaches us that we should relief those who are in burden, bondage or you can term them as somebody who are in slavery because once you’re owing somebody, that person might have given you some conditions that you have to abide with and these conditions might even be hindering your successes…but if we assist them to ensure that we bring them out of that debt, they’ll be able to focus and their minds will be at rest.”

Adelotan advised students given scholarship to face their studies, saying “very few have this opportunity we gave them. Some people don’t even have the means to even come to us to apply not to talk being opportune to benefit from our scholarship. They should be good students and excel in their academic to secure good employment after graduation.”

He urged the beneficiaries to use the funds and the equipment judiciously.

A beneficiary who got a grinding machine, Mrs Mulika Bello, told The Nation that the machine will improve her business.

“I have four children. Catering for them with my small business is tasking. I made between N5000 and N10,000 daily. With these machine, I could make up to N20,000 daily. May God assist those who pay Zakat. This Zakat institution will never perish by God’s grace, it will continue to prosper,” she said.