The conservative traditionalist understanding of Islam while complicating religion with additional rules, has reduced the amount of alms and charity given. In the Qur’an, God commands believers to give away what is left from what one needs to sustain their lives. But the traditionalist orthodox system -which is not based on the Qur’an- says that only one in fortieth of one’s wives’ gold should be given as alms. - Harun Yahya