Ma`rifat Eqtesadi

Islam, as the most complete religion, has placed combating poverty at the top of its commandments. This issue has been raised in the Meccan and Madani verses of the Holy Quran. The aim of the present article is to investigate the financial resources and methods of combating poverty during the 10 years of the Prophet’s presence in Medina and based on the order of the Madani surahs. The article follows the content analysis method and uses library resources. The results of the article show that religious motivations, altruism, and hereafter played a very important role in achieving this goal. In addition to the popular resources mentioned in Surah Makki, and with regard to the conquests and the formation of the Bayt al-Mal, public resources such as fi’, zakat, zakat al-fitr, war booty and their khums, and lands of mufti’ al-anwhah and peace were also added to the financial resources for combating poverty. Although Surah Madani abandons zakat and sadaqat to combat poverty, spending is mostly used to cover the costs of jihad. The article shows that in the ninth year of the Hijra, zakat was transformed from an individual obligation to a state obligation and the Prophet sent representatives to collect and distribute it to different regions.