Zakat Basics and Nisab
1,864 questions
Should a person's shares in different olive groves be combined to estimate Zakat, or should each grove be treated separately?
How is zakat calculated on saved money and earned money? Is it obligatory only on the annual increase? And what about the zakat of past years that I was unaware of?
Is it preferable to pay Zakat in one lump sum to a single person or to several people?
What must be done concerning the 200 dinars that the parents gifted to the questioner when opening the account, which he was unable to return to them, so that the zakat is valid when a year has passed over the account?
Will a full year be counted for money acquired three months after Ramadan of last year, and will its zakat be due for one year or two years in the coming Ramadan?
Is Zakat obligatory on a sum of money designated to help needy relatives, which is collected and distributed to them according to need, and which reached 40,000 Riyals after four years of collection?
Is the owner of the crops obligated to pay Zakat on the surplus if what is due from him is more than what the Zakat Collection Committee estimated?
Is zakat obligatory on a building prepared for sale and marketing in stages, with the intention of building another building from its price?
Is Zakat obligatory on collected diya (blood money) funds if a year has passed on them?
How can a young man determine the due date for paying the zakat on his savings in the bank, knowing that he is accustomed to paying it in Ramadan, that he sometimes withdraws from it, and that he cannot accurately determine the beginning of the hawl (zakat year)?
Is zakat obligatory on the entire amount saved for a disabled child, or only on the amount saved during the year?
Is zakat obligatory on gold mortgaged against a loan?
Are the funds of minor children invested in stocks pooled for the purpose of Zakat, or is the wealth of each individual purified separately, given that not pooling them prevents reaching the threshold (nisab)?
Is Zakat obligatory on housing allowance entitlements that were disbursed five years after returning from the scholarship, and is Zakat due for six years or for one year?
Is zakat obligatory on money deposited monthly with a brother for the purpose of buying a house from him, and how is it calculated if it is obligatory?
Is Zakat obligatory on a sum of (630,000) Algerian Dinars received after a delay in salary, given that the Zakat threshold (nisab) is (400,000) Algerian Dinars? And what is the amount that must be given?
Is zakat obligatory on a sum of money collected from a "jam'iyyah" (cooperative society) two months before the completion of the hawl (one lunar year), while seven installments have not yet been paid? And are the remaining installments after the completion of the hawl considered debts to be deducted from the zakatable amount?
If the zakat payer does not pay the zakat on his wealth that reached the نصاب (minimum amount on which zakat is due) in the first hawl (zakat year), and then invests it and it increases in the second hawl, does the poor person deserve a share of the profit from the invested wealth according to his share of the zakat, based on the opinion that zakat relates to the عين المال (the very substance/identity of the wealth)?
Is Zakat obligatory on 100 Kuwaiti Dinars? And how can the Zakat due date be determined by the Hijri calendar if it was previously paid by the Gregorian calendar? Is it permissible to fix the annual Zakat due date in the month of Rabi' al-Awwal?
1. Is zakat obligatory on an apartment reserved in Dubai, or on a house owned in Pakistan and currently rented out? 2. What is the ruling on zakat if the reserved apartment in Dubai is sold for a higher price to buy another at a similar price to avoid selling the property in Pakistan? 3. If the husband sells gold he owns in November, and his zakat is due in February, how does he pay zakat on the money obtained from selling the gold? 4. What is the ruling on zakat for commercial investments made by the husband to gain profit, and when is zakat due if money is withdrawn from these investments, knowing that all investments will be withdrawn and the property and gold will be sold to pay 85% of the value of the apartment in Dubai?
What is the amount of zakat due upon my friend who owns a property that he leases annually for 15,000 riyals, a plot of land valued at 16,000 riyals, has a bank debt of 30,000 riyals, and whose salary is no less than 100,000 riyals but he does not save?
Is it better when paying Zakat to make it public or private?
Is zakat obligatory on money collected in a charity box, and if so, is it 2.5% of the money for each year, with the remainder given as charity?
Is it permissible to give zakat to a person without being certain of their eligibility for it?