Is zakat obligatory on the advance rent paid by the tenant, or on the landlord of the apartment, knowing that this money is not returned to the tenant and becomes the right of the landlord immediately upon signing the contract?
The advance payment taken by the landlord is his property, not the tenant's, and zakat is obligatory upon the landlord.
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