About us
Charitable giving that can be checked
E-Sadaqah exists to make the obligations of Islamic giving straightforward to discharge and simple to verify — so that giving well does not depend on knowing someone who can vouch for where the money went.
What we are trying to do
Most giving platforms treat every donation as the same transaction with a different label. Islamic giving is not like that. Zakat may only reach certain recipients. Fidya is counted in days, not naira. Zakat al-Fitr has a deadline measured in hours. Waqf is meant to be kept rather than spent.
Treating those differences as a styling problem is how money ends up in the wrong place. This platform treats them as the actual requirement: each kind of giving has its own fund, its own way of being worked out, and its own limits on where it can go.
What we hold ourselves to
These are not aspirations. Each one is enforced by the system rather than by a promise.
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A fund is never borrowed from
Money given as Zakat cannot be spent on something Zakat may not fund, even temporarily. The accounts will not allow it.
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Two people, not one
Money leaving a fund is started by one person and approved by a different one. Nobody can do both halves of the same payment.
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A record that cannot be rewritten
Decisions are written to a trail that can be checked for tampering. Corrections are made by adding an entry, never by editing history.
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Religious rules are approved before use
The basis of a Zakat calculation is reviewed and signed off before it can be applied to anybody's wealth, and each calculation records which version it used.
What you can give here
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Zakat
زكاةThe yearly obligation on wealth held for a full lunar year.
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Zakat al-Fitr
زكاة الفطرA fixed amount for each member of the household, before the Eid prayer.
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Fidya
فديةFor fasts that cannot be made up — one person fed for each missed day.
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Kaffarah
كفارةExpiation for a deliberately broken fast or a broken oath.
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Waqf
وقفAn endowment: the capital is preserved and only its returns are spent.
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Sadaqah
صدقةVoluntary charity, given at any time and for any good purpose.
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Emergency Relief
Relief for a declared emergency.
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General
Used wherever the need is greatest.
Questions about how this works?
If something here is unclear, or you want to know more before you give, please ask. We would rather answer than have you guess.