Zakat

Last year’s zakat must be paid immediately once it is due. You can’t give it in installments. However, you can estimate next year’s zakat and give it on monthly basis and once the date is due, you calculate how much you gave and if there is a balance left, give it on the spot.

Praise be to Allaah.There is no sin on him because he is excused for his forgetfulness, but he has to pay it when he remembers it. Shaykh ‘Abd al-‘Azeez ibn Baaz (may Allah have mercy on him) was asked about someone who forgot to pay zakaat al-fitr on time, and he replied: There is no […]

You must give zakat in your savings if they reach nisab regardless of your debts.

No, unless he authorizes you! Kindly refer to the following link(s): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfAnP80AXUU

He must sell some of it and pay the zakat due.

Yes, the amount of money you bought it with must have a due date for zakat, once this date is due, calculate the values of these cows along with your cash and give 2.5% zakat on it.

Yes. Any person who has enough to feed himself on that day, whatever surplus he has should be given as zakat ul fitr. Kindly refer to the following link(s): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNGuXz1oKfI

This seems permissible providing they are poor and only these orphans would eat from it and not their teachers and staff.

If they are poor or needy, you can give them.