Is zakat obligatory on an amount of five million Saudi riyals, paid as a down payment for the purchase of agricultural land, while the issue of its ownership is still under consideration by the court, knowing that the buyer's intention is to use part of it for a factory and lease the rest?
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The installment paid for the land's price has exited the payer's ownership and become the property of the selling real estate company, thus no is due on it. Similarly, there is no zakat on the land itself as long as it was not purchased with the intention of trade.
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