Zakat on Money and Gold
2,114 questions
Is it permissible to give zakat al-mal (obligatory charity) to a married woman who is separated from her financially capable husband, who only provides for her bare necessities, in order for her to cover the costs of a necessary surgical operation for which she does not have the means, and is it permissible to give the money as a gift while it is from zakat?
Is it obligatory to spend on a father with a moderate income, and is it permissible to give him from Zakat al-Mal?
If wealth reaches the niṣāb and a Ḥawl passes on it, is zakat due on the original wealth after deducting the zakat of the previous year, or on the new wealth upon which the Ḥawl has passed?
Is zakat due on a down payment made for purchasing an apartment in installments that has not yet been built and will not be ready for years?
Is the money of a relative who does not pay zakat on his wealth, because he is illiterate and does not know the gravity of the matter of zakat, lawful for his family?
Is zakat due on the entire current value of the stored goods, or on the difference in value between the past year and the current year?
Does zakat apply to money saved by the father that has been held for a full year (hawl), as well as to accumulated money that has been held for a full year (hawl), and is zakat obligatory on cash if the father gives it out as rice?
Is the deposit and gold that the mother left with her daughter before her death considered an inheritance that must be distributed among the heirs, or is it permissible for the daughter to dispose of it for essential needs such as her siblings' education and marriage, especially since the father is prevented from disposing of it and distributing it to the heirs? And is zakat due on it, and from where should it be paid?
How is the Zakat calculated for money that has not been paid for 5 years, knowing that it sometimes decreases and sometimes increases before a complete year (hawl) passes on it?
What is the obligatory Zakat on a sum of money saved in the form of gold, which was later sold to purchase agricultural land for investment purposes? And is the Zakat calculated from the time the Nisab is reached, or from the time the land is purchased, or from the time it is received?
Is Zakat obligatory on money saved and sent to family in installments to help them with marriage and self-establishment?
Must one allocate a third of the profits to official charities that provide tax access, or is it permissible to give it directly to the needy, knowing that one's heart is disinclined to abandon unofficial needy individuals?
What is the ruling on paying blood money for an abortion that occurred 19 years ago for a fetus 30-50 days old, and what is the share of each heir from 213 grams of gold, knowing that there are children of the perpetrator (siblings of the fetus), the deceased husband’s father, the perpetrator’s parents, and the fetus’s paternal uncles and aunts, and maternal uncles and aunts, and is it permissible to give the heirs their right without justification?
How can my mother pay zakat on gold for previous years, and is it permissible for me to take a share of this zakat to be able to get married? Is it permissible to use zakat money to build a small house and get married? Is it permissible to take zakat from more than one source?
What is the ruling on borrowing from someone's deposit without their knowledge, knowing that if they request their money, gold will be sold to complete it and give them their full right?
What should you do about a sum of money you took from the social security for your deceased grandmother, which the Zakat and Charity Authority refused to accept, after your repentance and desire to return it?
Is the wife entitled to claim the value of her gold which she sold of her own free will to contribute to the purchase of a house, and then later claimed that it was a trust with the husband, and the court rejected her claim after the husband took an oath?
What is the ruling on the action of a husband who takes the remaining money from the sale of his wife's gold without her knowledge, and refuses to give her money for her basic needs, knowing that he does not pray and she is patient and a believer?
Is it permissible to pay Zakat on money to purchase a bus whose income is dedicated to a charitable society for memorizing the Quran and sponsoring poor families?
What is the correct stance to take when confronting the father about his second marriage, knowing that he abuses the mother and wishes to dispose of her gold, which is in the son's possession?
Is aborting a fetus at six months — medically proven to have severe deformities (a hole in the brain with fluid leakage, and a hole in the spinal column causing complete paralysis and mental retardation) — considered killing a soul, what is the legitimate Shar’i ruling for this situation, and what is incumbent upon the spouses?
Is it obligatory to pay the blood money legally set at 30 million Sudanese pounds for unintentional killing, knowing that this amount is not equal to one hundred camels?
Is it permissible to give gold zakat to a university student brother whom the father supports and who is not employed?
Is zakat obligatory on money saved for accumulation, or for purchasing a commodity, or for any other reason, and what is its nisab and how is it to be paid?