Regarding the zakat on salary, does "Hawl" (a year) refer to the passing of a year on the principal amount, or on each individual salary payment? And is the salary of the last month of the year considered among the funds upon which a year must pass?
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Linguistically, "hawl" means: a year, strength, change, transformation, residence, and the rotation of something.
Legally (in Islamic law), it means: the passing of a lunar year after the wealth has reached the (minimum taxable amount).
on wealth is not obligatory unless it reaches the nisab and a hawl has passed over it.
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