Zakat season
When the year completes on your money: the threshold, gold and savings, debts, business, and who may receive.
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Questions in this season
What is the meaning of ibn al-sabil? Thank you.
Which personal possessions is zakat due on every year?
How much oil must be given as zakat from 300 liters of inherited olive oil, and is the zakat divided among the heirs or paid before the produce is divided?
What is the ruling on zakat on chopped and green corn used as livestock feed?
What is the difference between zakat and tax?
What is the argument of those who issued fatwas that zakat is due on salaries?
Is failure to fully adhere to the zakat threshold, after a previous supplication to allocate a portion of one's provision to the poor, considered hypocrisy for which one will be punished by Allah, just as happened to those mentioned in Surat At-Tawbah, whose charities were rejected and whose repentance was not accepted?
Is Zakat obligatory on a house that was bought four years ago and rented out a year ago, but has not generated income after covering maintenance expenses?
Is it taken into consideration when paying Zakat that the wealth reached the Nisab on Ashura of last year, despite doubts about it? And are borrowed funds included in the Zakat Nisab? And is Zakat paid on the determined Nisab or on the entire amount currently owned, including borrowed funds? And is it necessary to verify that the Nisab has been reached before paying Zakat on Ashura?
If the money falls below the minimum threshold (nisab) and then increases again, reaching the minimum threshold once more, is zakat obligatory upon it when it reaches the minimum threshold again, knowing that the initial minimum threshold is still outstanding?
Does the ownership of money saved for children transfer to them merely by placing it in an envelope designated for them? Is it permissible to dispose of it for purposes other than their affairs? Should it be zakat-ed with the father's money or separately, knowing that their ages are under four?
Is part of a car bought by a sister with her mother's money and her salary from her work considered haram if the mother did not pay zakat on the money with which she bought the car? And is it obligatory to sell the car to pay zakat from it if zakat is due on the money itself, and does the zakat multiply as the price of the car multiplies?