Zakat on Business and Investments
116 questions
Is it permissible to gather employees to complete a recitation of the the Qur’an (Khatm al-Qur’an) when opening a company, and is this act considered a bid‘ah (innovation), and what is prescribed to be done when opening a shop, company, or house?
How is the Zakat calculated for rented properties whose income reaches the minimum threshold (Nisab), knowing that the lease began in the month of Muharram?
Is zakat obligatory on the sum of 14,500 Jordanian dinars, inherited by the mother, three sons, and three daughters from their father, from which monthly profits are generated?
Is it permissible to take money from a business partnership to give it as charity without the partners' knowledge or consent, and is it permissible to use dissimulation (Tawriya) regarding the expenses of the charity to appease them?
Is Zakat obligatory on a sum of 7500 dinars saved in a bank and on which a year has passed, given that there are installments for a solar energy system amounting to 2800 dinars, a decline in business, and household expenses are covered from the same saved amount?
What is the religious ruling on a young man giving charity and getting married while he has debts and others owe him money?
How does a farmer pay Zakat on dates, and what about Zakat on trade if he sells dates in partnership with laborers, sharing the profits equally among them?
Is it permissible to give one's brother from Zakat money for his marriage, knowing that his salary and share from a business venture are insufficient to cover the marriage expenses?
What is the ruling on a son paying the expenses of his parents' household while he owes his father the price of the project of which the son is considered the owner? And is Zakat on money obligatory for him if it reaches the Nisab?
Is it obligatory for someone who has paid their Zakat in advance to calculate their wealth again at the end of the year to ensure their obligation has been fulfilled?
Is zakat obligatory on a commercial property that was purchased in installments, with a portion of its price paid, but which has not yet been received?
Is the zakat on a sum inherited by a merchant and invested in his trade added to the zakat on the original trade capital, or is its zakat separate at a later time? And does the merchant pay zakat on the full capital with which he started his trade, even if part of it was a loan, or does he only pay zakat on the profit he actually possesses after repaying the debt?
Is it permissible to give to a partner who is experiencing financial hardship and is in debt from the shop’s zakat funds and from the personal zakat of the other partners?
How is zakat on medicines in a pharmacy paid? Is it based on their new price or old price, after their prices increased months ago?
Is it obligatory to calculate the saved money with the business money to pay Zakat on both together, or to pay Zakat on each separately, and is the saved money that is added to the business money for a few months and then reclaimed considered a debt owed by the two partners?
When is Zakat due on jewelry that has reached the nisab, and then other jewelry is added to it during the hawl?
How is zakat paid on the capital of a contracting business that moves from one project to another, and whose profits are not calculated until after the completion of each project?
Is it permissible to give zakat to an unmarried girl who lives with her parents and needs money to start a project?
What should a guardian of orphans' money do if he invested their money with someone who was later found to be involved in usury and subsequently lost his business, knowing that the received profits equal the principal, and are these profits considered principal, and is he sinful for this?
Is zakat obligatory on funds not yet received from company profits over nine years, especially after the partner stated that they were lost in his private business and refused to provide financial statements to determine the zakatable amount? And is zakat obligatory on a benevolent loan (Qard Hasan) given to a brother for building a large house, knowing that he is financially capable?
Is zakat obligatory on an amount of one hundred thousand Egyptian pounds, which is from business profits and salary, and a year has not passed on it, knowing that the original capital of the business is twenty-five thousand Egyptian pounds? And is it permissible to pay zakat in two installments?
Is it permissible to postpone the payment of zakat debt owed by the deceased, or to give it to needy relatives, or to spend it on an ongoing charity (Sadaqah Jariyah)?
Is it permissible to sell cigarettes in a shop for the purpose of liquidating the business and donating the money earned from it to build a mosque or any project that benefits Muslims?
Is it permissible for a father to give his poor, unmarried, 23-year-old son from his zakat money to help him start a project, knowing that he already spends on him?