Maktab Ul-IslamIslamic Library
Giving Well

Islamic charities — give with your eyes open

Where to give, how to check a charity before you do, and how to support the people whose free work fills this library. We link and explain — we never take a cut, and we never calculate your zakat for you.

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🌍LaunchGood

The largest Muslim crowdfunding platform — thousands of campaigns you can filter by cause and country.

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🤍Ehsan · إحسان

Saudi Arabia's national donation platform — government-regulated, with vetted campaigns.

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🧮National Zakat Foundation

UK zakat collected and distributed to Muslims locally — plus a zakat calculator run by specialists.

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🕌Zakat Foundation of America

US zakat and sadaqah, with their own calculator and a clear breakdown of the eight categories.

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How to give sadaqah

What counts, what it does, and the small consistent kind that was preferred. How To Muslim.

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Support the work in this library

📄Yaqeen Institute

The research papers behind much of the Debate Hall — free because donors pay for them.

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🧠Sapience Institute

The Divine Reality and the free dawah training courses this library sends people to.

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📗Quran.com

Ad-free, no tracking, 90+ translations — run by a non-profit on donations alone.

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🌐iERA

The dawah research and street-outreach training in the Dawah Desk.

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🎙Muslim Central

80,000+ lectures, free and ad-free, for 300+ speakers. Entirely donation-funded.

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📚Ummatics

Research on the ummah's collective future, linked from the Study Hall.

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🎧The Thinking Muslim

Listener-funded — the podcast at the top of the Listening Room.

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🌸Rabata

Women's Islamic scholarship and teacher training, by women, for women.

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Check before you give

🇬🇧Charity Commission

Look up any registered UK charity: accounts, trustees, and whether filings are overdue.

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🧭Charity Navigator

Independent US ratings on finances, accountability and transparency.

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🔎GuideStar / Candid

Raw US non-profit filings — read the Form 990 rather than the marketing page.

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🇨🇦CRA Charities Listing

Canada's official register — confirm a charity is registered before donating.

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On zakat: we deliberately don't host a zakat calculator. The nisab threshold, whether it follows gold or silver, and what counts as zakatable wealth — pensions, crypto, business stock, debts owed to you — genuinely differ between the madhhabs. A calculator has to pick one school to produce a number at all, which is a ruling wearing the costume of a tool. Use a calculator run by people who state their position, and ask a scholar for anything unusual. That applies to the two calculators linked above as much as to any other — check which nisab basis each one states before you rely on its number.