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  • Zakah on ambergris

    Asalaamu alaykum. My friend found a piece of amergirs in the sea. My friend sold it for 100,000 dollars. Does he have to pay zakah on that? .. More

  • Zakah on shops including customer debts

    Assalaamu alaykum. Last year, I started a business with my partner and we invested 40 lacs in it, out of which we bought two shops for 32 lacs and the stuff for our shop for 8 lacs. After a year passed, we did the calculations of our shop, and we had a benefit of about 5 lacs. At the same time, however, we came to know that we have about 7 lacs outside,.. More

  • Paying zakah on wheat crop

    Assalaamu alaykum. May Allaah Almighty reward you for your services with a great reward. I would like to know how I should pay the zakah for farmland that is rented to cultivate wheat for trading (as a business). Do I have to pay zakah after deducting all the expenses? What if the local people here do not want the harvested wheat? All can I give is.. More

  • Zakah of partnership capital

    Assalaamu Alaykum. I have a question and will be grateful if you could reply at your earliest convenience. I have formed a partnership in which others have invested cash money. My investment is the value of a piece of land at the time of investment, after a particular period, I reasses the value of the land and distribute appreciation (current land.. More

  • Paying zakah on inaccessible money

    Assalaamu alaykum wa rahmatullaah. I need some advise concerning zakah. My wife worked in France for a few years before becoming Muslim; at the time that she became Muslim, she was living in England. She did not have access to her money in France due to administrative restrictions. Since then, we have bought a house via a mortgage, and she is still.. More

  • Promising to give charity does not make it obligatory

    Assalaamu alaykum. My question is the following: I have promised to pay 10,000 Swedish kroner at a fundraiser to build a mosque. Praise be to Allaah, the mosque has been completed thanks to a brother from Middle East. I have not yet finished paying the money. I instead started giving money to other mosques under construction in Spain, France and Kenya... More

  • Calculating zakah of goat farm

    Assalaamu alaykum. We are running a goat farm for milking, selling newborn kids, and for trading purposes also. Milking and selling newborn kids: Currently, we have around 260+ goats that are producing milk and newborn kids. Most of the feed for these goats is purchased from outside. - How should we pay zakah on the milk? - How should we pay.. More

  • Paying zakah to poor grandfather

    There are two orphans aged seven and eleven; their father left wealth for them; they annually pay zakah on it. Their grandfather is a pensioner though he has another son that cares for him, but he is still poor and needs the zakah. is it permissible for him to have a share in his grandchildrens' zakah? .. More

  • Zakah may not be paid to settle loan

    Assalaamu alaykum to the Islamweb.net team. I have a question regarding zakah. If a person, regardless of whether he was in need or not, has taken a loan from an interest-based bank and is now unable to repay the bank, can he use his zakah money to repay his debts to the bank given that, in this case, it is interest-based? So what is the ruling here? .. More

  • Paying zakah on debit card deposit

    Assalaamu alaykum wa rahmatullaah. I would like to ask regarding paying zakah on the money that a person has deposited from his own money in an Islamic bank in order use to use their covered card service. For example, the bank, before offering the covered card (debit card), require from the client to give them 10,000 in cash, and they will keep it with.. More

  • Not taking rent from poor is not zakah

    I own a flat that I have given to my parents-in-law to live in without paying rent, as they are unable to do so. The stipulated rent of the flat is Rs. 10,000 per month. Can I consider this Rs 10,000 as zakah paid to my parents-in-law? .. More

  • Paying zakah on gold for past years

    Assalaamu alaykum. I want to pay zakah on my gold because I just learned that it is a major sin to not do so. My husband, however, does not allow me to give it because his salary is too low to pay it. and he does not allow me to sell the gold for zakah. Can I sell my gold without his knowledge? All the gold is still with me. Please advise, I want to.. More

  • Paying zakah to reunite man with wife and daughter

    Assalaamu alaykum. My question is related to zakah. I have a Muslim friend that lives in Dubai, he earns around 4,000 AED and lives in a company-provided room. He is married and has a young daughter, but they live in India. In order for him to bring his family to Dubai, he needs to rent an apartment and pay a few fees to get the necessary application.. More

  • Giving zakah to sister

    Assalaamu alaykum, Mufti. I would appreciate it if you could make the following points clear to me: 1) My sister's husband has been out of a job for many years. We always support her. Now, I have some amount of money that I need to give out as zakah. Can I give this zakah money to her? 2) She received about 6 lacs from her father's land deal... More

  • Paying zakah on land that was bought but is not yet in buyer's possession

    Dear Teacher, I have question related to zakah. I have two pieces of land that were purchased in 2014 as well as one that was purchased in 2015. I have not taken possession on any land yet because the area is still in development; nevertheless, these lands do have a market value. I have to construct my home on one of the pieces land after selling a.. More