Is buying a house with saved money—with the intention of getting one's son married—in order to avoid paying Zakat on this money, considered Zakat evasion and a violation of Allah's command?
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Saved gold is subject to if it reaches the (85 grams or more) and a full lunar year (hawl) has passed on it. Zakat can be paid from the gold itself or in cash. The idea that occurred to the owner of the wealth—to buy a house for his son with the aim of reducing the wealth below the nisab—is considered a stratagem to escape zakat, and such stratagems are invalid in Islamic law. Scholars have differed regarding the ruling on one who does this before the hawl. The preponderant view, in our opinion, is that circumvention to avoid zakat is not permissible, and zakat is not waived.
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