They do not have to pay the same proportional amount as before, thereby providing an automatic relief for income earners. 21. On the contrary, when aggregate personal disposable income increases (boom period), more zakat is collected and more amount remains at the disposal of government to allocate as transfer payments.
Thus zakat enables the distributive allocation works independently and help stabilize the extreme business cycles. As for 5  awqaf, since the principal of awqaf will always increase from time to time, due to return of productive activities and new awqaf collection, awqaf could act as shock absorber of economic shocks. Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, 22.