When is zakat obligatory, and what is the minimum amount of wealth on which it is due? Is zakat obligatory on her if she earns $200-300 every two weeks? Where is zakat paid, and is it a condition that the recipient be Muslim? What are the categories of zakat expenditure in non-Islamic countries?
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1. is obligatory on wealth if it reaches the (minimum threshold) and a full year has passed over it, and its amount is 2.5%.
2. Zakat is to be paid in the country where the zakat payer resides, if there are poor people there. It is permissible to pay it to the poor in another country if they are in greater need.
3. It is a condition that the recipient of zakat be a Muslim, unless they are a disbeliever whose reconciliation or conversion to Islam is hoped for by giving them from it.
4. The cash amount mentioned in the question, if a full year has passed over it, zakat becomes obligatory on it because it exceeds the nisab.
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