Zakat

QUESTION: I had $30,000 in Jan 2025. In Jan 2026, I have $1000 on hand. I used $20,000 to buy silver and gold bars as investment and 10,000 dollars I gave as a loan. I also own two gold necklaces weighing 8gms all, for personal use. I did earn more throughout the year but I spent that for my basic needs, food, clothing and shelter. What amount should I pay Zakat on this year? I am very confused.

Zakat

04 Feb

ANSWER: You must give zakat on whatever cash you have in your possession now and all the gold, even the gold that you wear (if it reaches the nisab of 85 gms or more) and all the investments. The date of zakat doesn’t change just because you turned some of the cash into investments. You […]

QUESTION: A woman’s father In law was paying her Gold zakat for last 15yrs but recently she came to know that he had stopped paying her Gold zakat 10yrs back and he didn’t inform her so now after knowing should the woman pay zakat of all the past 10yrs or only should she pay from this year only as she was unaware of this?

Zakat

20 Jan

ANSWER: Of course she must pay the zakat of past 10 years as she’s the owner of that gold & its her responsibility and not anyone else’s.

QUESTION: Is it permissible to give my Zakat-Ul- Fitr in an area where I don’t live , for example my wife’s hometown?

Zakat

11 Jan

ANSWER: No problem, however it’s best to give it to the poor and needy Muslims where you live.

QUESTION: Sheikh if calculate the zakat on my gold on say Nov 1st but I don’t have the money to pay off all my zakat all at once and I would need to pay it off in installments, do I hold to that one calculation from Nov 1st until I pay it all off or do I recalculate with the gold price for Dec 1st when I’m paying off the next installment?

Zakat

15 Nov

ANSWER: Its not permissible to pay the zakat on instalments! You must pay it on the due date (hijri Islamic calendar), can take a couple of days extra but CANNOT delay it much further! Sell some of your gold to pay the zakat on time if you don’t have the cash

QUESTION: Mum was raised with ignorance of correct islam, yet still gave zakah ever since she 1st got good amt of gold 25 yrs ago. She gave acc. to Gregorian calender,didnt know when nisab was reached i.e, made errors but still gave every yr. She doesnt recall details of past yrs& made tauba now,Is this sufficient

Zakat

21 Oct

ANSWER: She is about 8 months late on her zakat as every three Gregorian years there is about one month and a day or two difference with the lunar year. Therefore, if she pays her zakat about 8 or 9 months earlier form now on, she will be fine in sha Allah

QUESTION: There is a big difference in the rates of buying jewelery and selling jewellery. When we sale the jewelery, When i have to calculate zakat then should i calculate it on the rates i have purchased it or the rates on which it will be sold on that day in the market?

Zakat

18 Sep

ANSWER: Yes, the current selling price.

QUESTION: There is a poor cousin of mine who got her leg fractured so can i keep a house help at her house and pay off her salary from my zakat

Dealings and Attitudes with Relatives, Zakat

10 Aug

ANSWER: If she is labeled as poor or needy Muslim and she is in need of such a helper and can’t afford one, you may tell her that you have zakat money whether she would like it in cash or you would pay for such a helper. As a recipient of zakat money, she is […]

QUESTION: If a person’s parents give their zakah to an organization they fully trust where the organization’s founder is known to be Deobandi that, is it alright for this person to give them his zakah or must he look elsewhere, where he wants to know if his parents’ trust towards this organization is a justification for him to give his zakah to that organization.

Innovations, Zakat

09 Aug

ANSWER: He must give it to someone trustworthy and not to people of innovation

QUESTION: My gold doesn’t exceed the threshold amount of zakat. If I mix them with cash then the amount exceeds the zakat threshold of silver. Can I give zakat based on this calculation? or should I calculate based on only cash?

Zakat

09 Jul

ANSWER: If you have cash that would mount to the thresh hold of gold when added to the gold you have, you should give zakat. But if it doesn’t reach the threshold of gold but the cash is above the threshold of silver, you must give zakat only on the cash and not the gold.

QUESTION: Is it okay to give Sadaqah to an approved NGO that provides meals to homeless people, both Muslims and non-Muslims?

Charity, Zakat

04 Jun

ANSWER: No problem in general sadaqah, but you can’t give neither zakat nor expiation to them.

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