the concept of economic poverty and the role of zakah to alleviate it

Humanity has always dreamed of eradicating poverty and creating a good life for all individuals and communities, and has therefore made numerous efforts and strategies to combat poverty. But prescribing a solution, regardless of the different origins of poverty, cannot be as effective. In the Islamic economic system, zakat has also been cited as a strategy to eliminate poverty.  Today, due to changing social relationships and social systems, the potential income of zakat is not capable of sufficiently accommodating the enormous amount of poverty present in societies. And this contradicts the role of zakat in poverty alleviation, which the hadiths have referred to. The question that arises is whether Zakat is a solution to all kinds of economic poverty? In this regard, good scientific efforts have been made to resolve this conflict and explain the problem of zakat in various studies, which have mainly focused on expanding zakat resources. In this paper, the roots of poverty are divided into four categories: natural, self-made, capitalism, and colonial, through the formation of a hadithic family and using verses and narratives, and then conclude by expressing Islam's strategies for combating all forms of poverty. It turns out that the poverty in Islamic society is limited to natural poverty and Zakat is the solution to this poverty.