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What is meant by the "original capital" by which commercial land is valued upon the passing of a year (hawl), is it the purchase price or its market value at that time?

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If you buy land for trade, what matters is the hawl (one lunar year) of the money with which you bought it. So, if a hawl passes on it, the land must be zakat-able. If someone buys land with money that has already been held for eleven months, then he pays zakat on the land after one month.

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