ANSWER: The animals are not one of the 8 categories mentioned in 9:60 (Quran) and hence this is invalid.

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ANSWER: If its your gold, you must pay zakat on it! If you GIFT half gold to your mother, she would own it and not you anymore! Don’t try to trick or play with Allah’s rules!

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ANSWER: If it reaches the threshold by itself and you possess it for a whole year, there is zakat on it.  Otherwise, you need to add it to the cash and other zakatble wealth you may have. 

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ANSWER: If you trust that he will give from his own money the equivalent of your zakat and that he is not lying, this is permissible as it is a gift from his side.  However, you must calculate what is saved in your cupboard and give the zakat on it personally just to be safe […]

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ANSWER: There is no such age. Zakat if given on the wealth, regardless whether it is owned by an orphan child or someone insane

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ANSWER: This is worse than the trick of the Jews who were ordered not to work on the sabbath, so they dug trenches on Friday and caught the fish on Sunday that was trapped in it and as a consequence of their trick, Allah cursed them and changed them into monkeys!

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