Zakat on Money and Gold
2,114 questions
Is it permissible for a man who has been entrusted with distributing Zakat to give a portion of it to his poor sons and university students?
How does one pay the zakat on his money if he does not find a poor person deserving of it, and is it a condition to search for the poor person to whom zakat is valid, taking into account the saying that one who abandons prayer is not entitled to zakat?
What is the zakat threshold for an amount of 2250 Euros upon which a year has passed, and how is zakat calculated: Is it based on the price of gold in Euros or in Egypt, and with which purity (21 or 24 carat), and at the current Euro exchange rate or at the rate at the time the year passed, and is it disbursed in Euros or in Egyptian Pounds?
What is the ruling on a married student of knowledge taking from zakat funds given to him by a benefactor with the intention that it is zakat for knowledge and da‘wah, knowing that he is in need and in debt? And is anything required of him after disposing of this money, even though he did not intend to keep it?
How is Zakat calculated on variable capital in contracting work?
Is buying an expensive gold ornament permissible or forbidden, when a third of its price has been paid in installments and before it is made and seen, and what is the solution if it has already been made?
Is it more deserving to give zakat to the poor in the country where I reside (Qatar), or to poor relatives in Palestine who squander their money?
What should a gold shop owner do with the amount of money received for gold that the buyer did not collect due to not bringing identification?
Is it permissible to pay Zakat to a disabled colleague who took out a loan to get married? And is it permissible for colleagues to collect money for him as a gift?
How is the zakat percentage calculated for cumulative money that increases and decreases over the months?
Is it permissible for a debtor merchant to demand that his debts be waived from the Zakat of his creditors’ wealth, given that he is in debt and unable to repay them?
When is Zakat due on money resulting from the sale of a gold bracelet? Does its Zakat year (hawl) begin from the date of sale or from the original date of purchase of the bracelet?
Is blood money obligatory upon a 10-year-old boy who caused his friend to lose an eye while playing with a piece of wood containing a nail, and what is its amount in Saudi Riyals, and is it permissible for the guardian of the injured person to waive it?
What should she do concerning the zakat on the gold remaining with her, knowing that she owned 158 grams, sold part of it, paid zakat on another part, and now possesses 90 grams offered for sale, having no money of her own, and her husband is in debt?
Is it permissible to lend a person money from the obligatory Zakat, on the condition that what the borrower repays be spent on the Zakat beneficiaries?
Is zakat annually obligatory on money saved for medical treatment and for supporting disabled children, and is it permissible to give this zakat to the children themselves?
Is Zakat obligatory on a sum of 13,000 Omani Riyals saved for building a house, considering withdrawals have been made from it over two years, and what is the amount of Zakat due?
Is one who buys land for building for the purpose of saving money and escaping the annual obligatory payment of zakat sinful, and is it permissible to convert saved money into something upon which zakat is not obligatory, and to sell it when needed, to avoid the decrease of money due to zakat?
Is it permissible to send Zakat money to a Christian orphaned niece living abroad, whose mother abandoned her, with the intention of helping her and inclining her heart towards Islam?
Is Zakat obligatory on borrowed money that is currently available?
Is it permissible for a wife to help her husband with money from her Zakat without informing him that it is from Zakat, in order to buy what he needs or to assist him with the expensive costs of his educational courses?
Is it permissible to give zakat on money to sons and daughters who are studying at university if the father's income is insufficient to cover university tuition fees and their educational necessities?
Is a father entitled to demand his daughter's personal gold and prevent her from visiting him and her siblings as punishment for maintaining ties of kinship with her maternal grandmother and maternal uncles, who inherited from her deceased mother? And is it permissible for the daughter and her husband to cut off ties of kinship to please him?
Do money transfer fees (such as Western Union) count towards the amount of Zakat that must be paid, or should they be paid from the Zakat payer's own money, to ensure the full amount of Zakat reaches the beneficiary?