Zakat Basics and Nisab
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Is it a condition for the zakat of two sheep (out of 120 sheep) that they be large, or small, or one large and the other small?
Is zakat obligatory on an industrial land that is under judicial dispute? Does the son pay zakat on behalf of his father? Is zakat obligatory on the rental income of an apartment valued at 70,000 dollars with a monthly rent of 150 dollars?
Is one sinful for delaying Zakat past its due time because the Imam sent collectors to take it again?
Does zakat become obligatory upon one who grows grapes and sells them as fruit, and does not make them into raisins?
Is Zakat obligatory on a debt owed to me by my brother and sister, and is it permissible to give it for breaking a fast or to a charitable endowment building?
Is Zakat due on money invested in an Islamic bank at a rate of 2.5% of the total amount, or only on the profits, taking into consideration the need for money to spend on family and children and to preserve the principal?
Is Zakat obligatory on commercial property and the possessions of Dar al-Harb (House of War) if one is unable to repay the debt of settlement and trade, or when waiving a debt to another person?
How is the Zakat on jewelry estimated: Is it estimated according to the current price of gold, or according to its value at jewelry stores after being evaluated as used?
How is Zakat calculated on money paid to the questioner's father for the purchase of a plot of land in installments?
Is the official exchange rate of the dollar or the parallel market rate used when determining the Sharia threshold (nisab) for Zakat, especially given the significant difference between the two rates?
Is it permissible to give zakat to an undeserving Islamic charity that pays out the zakat immediately upon receiving the money, and in the event of the giver's death, pays the zakat immediately? And if permissible, does the giver benefit from the works of this charity? And is permission required when paying zakat?
If a man wears gold jewelry, is Zakat obligatory on it?
How is the zakat threshold for trade goods calculated given the differing values of gold and silver?
How is an inheritance of houses, agricultural lands, and their produce divided, is zakat obligatory upon it, how is it discharged, and who will discharge it?
How is zakat paid on a debt that is to be settled in installments over 10 years?
Is Zakat due on the entire amount (88,000) or only on 20,000 of the cooperative family fund's assets, and is Zakat due on all participants, or on the borrowers, or on the non-borrowers?
How is the Zakat calculated for a library that includes stationery and student services, and do high-value photocopying machines factor into the Zakat calculation?
Is it permissible to perform I'tikaf in the guard's room and the Zakat committee's room inside the mosque?
Is it permissible to pay Zakat in advance for two years, when it was paid to marry someone whom Allah enriched before the end of the Zakat's due year?
Is there Zakat on horses and donkeys?
Is Zakat obligatory on 64 head of sheep that a person bought from his mother, knowing that only one month remained for their original Hawl (Zakat year) with the mother, and only a few days have passed since he bought them?
Is zakat valid if given to the deserving individual without informing him that it is zakat, for fear that he might not accept it?
Is zakat obligatory on grapes?
How is the zakat calculated for land on which construction has begun for investment, knowing that the construction period may take four years?