Zakat Basics and Nisab
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Are land plots subject to tithes (zakat) or not?
Is it permissible to pay Zakat for building a center for memorizing the Quran or for treating a poor, ill person, and is it necessary to deliver it directly to the poor person?
Is zakat obligatory on a deposit amount that reaches the nisab, from which installments for an apartment are paid, knowing that the profits are what pay the installments, not the principal amount, and that the deposit amount is less than the price of the apartment?
Is it sufficient to pay Zakat on wealth monthly, based on a portion of the salary, instead of the annual Zakat?
Is Zakat obligatory on an inherited sum from a father, and is it permissible to give it to needy student siblings to cover their university expenses?
What is the minimum amount (nisab) upon which zakat becomes obligatory, and what is its equivalent in Saudi Riyals?
Is it obligatory to combine the value of gold, silver, and cash to determine the Zakat threshold and pay it all at once, or is each to be zakat-ed separately?
Is it permissible for a sick woman to use money collected for her for a surgical operation, to spend it on post-operative treatment supplies, food, and drink, knowing that the amount has reached the nisab and a hawl has passed over it?
How can one pay zakat on a sum of money deposited in a bank, to which salary is added monthly over ten months, after the original sum was paid zakat on in the previous year?
Does Zakat become obligatory on a sum of money deposited in a bank that yields semi-annual returns, if a new lunar year (hawl) has passed over it, but it will be withdrawn to furnish a home?
Does Zakāt become obligatory on money saved for the purpose of buying a house for the family, in US dollars, then converted to Moroccan Dirhams, knowing that parts of it have completed a Hawl (lunar year) while other parts have not? And if Zakāt is paid, does it then become obligatory on the remaining money when a Hawl passes over it? And what is the Niṣāb in Morocco?
How is the Zakat calculated for a project valued at ten thousand Egyptian pounds, which requires half the amount to be in the bank, and the other half is used for the project?
Is zakat obligatory on tomatoes, alfalfa, sesame, and wheat straw (hay)?
Is zakat obligatory on inheritance, and what among it is subject to zakat—money or land and a house—and when does its obligation begin? And is zakat obligatory on a monthly sum that reaches the nisab through saving after the death of the inheritor?
Is Zakat obligatory on an airline ticket sales office, and how is it calculated, and is Zakat obligatory on profits generated from selling tickets for Hajj trips?
Is it permissible to take zakat in advance, before the completion of the hawl (one year), if its amount is deducted from the value of a building's rent before receiving it in full?
Is zakat obligatory on a deposit in an Islamic bank, which represents a guarantee for a company to obtain facilities?
What is the ruling on zakat for what is extracted from the sea, and what is its nisab and its amount?
Is it permissible for a volunteer zakat collector to take a share from it, or is that contingent upon him being appointed by the ruler?
Is zakat obligatory on inherited money that has been in one's possession for a full year before being received, and has not yet been received?
What is the ruling on the zakat of the remaining amount, if the original amount was not subjected to zakat for three years?
Is zakat obligatory on a plot of land that one intends to sell or keep for the future?
What is the ruling on giving Zakat from 1000 sacks of wheat and barley by deducting 100 sacks as rent for the harvester, and then giving 100 sacks as Zakat? And is there Zakat due on the owner of the harvester for what he takes as rent? And are cultivation expenses deducted before giving Zakat?
Is zakat obligatory on money in the bank that cannot be withdrawn?