Zakat

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.

QUESTION: In my home, I, sister and mother stay together. We both are unmarried and our three people’s gold together is above nisaab and separately it isn’t. So do we have to pay zakaat?

Zakat

02 May

ANSWER: No, there’s no zakat on it as it must be calculated individually and not all together.

QUESTION: In one of your videos, you said a women who does no job, have no money but if she has 85g of gold or more, then she should sell some of gold to give zakat on it! If a divorced women with 2 childrens, possess 200 gram of gold, can she use that money after selling or must she give it to someone else ?

Zakat

26 Apr

ANSWER: She must give it to poor and needy Muslims!

QUESTION: My husband has paid half my zakat for gold and told he would pay the rest in the next 3 months since he doesn’t have money now so is it allowed or should the rest of the zakat money be payed immediately by borrowing money or by selling my gold?

Zakat

23 Apr

ANSWER: Zakat must be paid immediately when it’s due, you can extend it to a few days but not months like this. You must sell some of your gold to pay off the zakat if you don’t have cash. Your husband is not obliged to pay for your zakat as this is your gold and […]

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