Zakat Basics and Nisab
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Is Zakat obligatory on the deceased's wealth if it has not been distributed among the heirs and a year has passed over it?
Is zakat obligatory on a sum of money for the purchase of a home that is still in the buyer's possession and has not been handed over to the seller until the home is vacated?
Is zakat obligatory on dates from inherited palm trees that have not reached the nisab, given that there is another palm oasis on which zakat is paid annually?
How is the zakat assessed on a house for which you gradually saved the price over 9 years, without remembering to pay zakat during that period? Is it calculated at 2.5% of the total house price or from the accumulated money at the end of each year? How is the zakat for each year estimated separately based only on the house price and the duration? Is it permissible to spend from the money while collecting for zakat? Is it obligatory to pay zakat before Umrah or other expenses?
Is zakat obligatory on a donation fund established to help the family of a deceased person, given that it has reached the nisab and a hawl (year) has passed, and knowing that it is directed solely to this family? Is it considered like a charitable endowment on which zakat is not obligatory?
How is my mother to pay zakat on her money that she has not paid zakat on since 1999, given that her father used to receive it previously and her salary increased gradually?
Is zakat due on three plots of land—one for immediate construction and two for future benefit (sale or development)—after six years have passed without its zakat being paid, and what is the amount of zakat due?
How much zakat is obligatory upon the employee and his wife, and to whom is it paid?
Is Zakat obligatory on a man who borrowed from the Real Estate Development Fund to build a residential building, then invested an excess amount from the loan in trade and uses it to pay off bank installments? And does this money belong to him or to the state?
Is zakat obligatory on money that I contributed to establishing a contracting company and that has generated profits? Is zakat obligatory on the principal or the profits? Is it before or after debt repayment?
What is the amount of Zakat if the sum was 10,000 Saudi Riyals at the beginning of the Hawl (Zakat year), then it became 6,000 after the first Hawl passed, and then it became 8,000 after the following Hawl passed?
What should I do now after having spent all the money I saved for marriage, without having paid zakat on it, assuming that zakat was not obligatory on it?
Is zakat obligatory on a crop of lentils and cumin, and what is its percentage if the agriculture is rain-fed, bearing in mind the existence of additional expenses for clearing the land of weeds?
Is Zakat obligatory on a piece of land that was purchased with the intention of building on it, but no construction has taken place on it for more than ten years?
How can one pay Zakat on coins that one has owned as a hobby for over four years, and whose value is approximately one thousand?
Am I obligated to pay Zakat if the price of a piece of land offered for sale does not reach the Nisab for Zakat, and other money has passed a Hawl (lunar year) but also does not reach the Nisab for Zakat, but their combined total does reach the Nisab for Zakat?
What is the method for calculating the zakat on a sum of (4276.121) Bahraini Dinars that has not completed a full year? Is the price of gold multiplied by 85 to determine the nisab? Is zakat obligatory on shares when it is unknown whether the company pays zakat on them or not? What about the zakat on the wealth of a deceased father that was not paid before its distribution?
Is zakat due on the owner of agricultural land that is leased, or on its lessee, and is it due on the entire harvest or on what remains after paying the rent?
Is it permissible to pay Zakat in advance on a small portion of a saved salary?