This year I have a total of R10,000 of wealth liable for Zakat. What value do I take the 2.5% from as I paid for the R4,000 last year? A. Zakat is to be paid on the total savings regardless of what Zakat was paid on in the past. Therefore, you would pay 2.5% of R10,000, which is R250. Q.
Zakat (zakaat, zakah), or almsgiving, is one of the five pillars of Islam. This means that Zakat is mandatory for Muslims, along with the other four sacred pillars of prayer (salah), fasting (sawm), pilgrimage (Hajj) and belief in Allah and His Messenger, Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) (shahadah). For every sane, adult Muslim who owns
12) In the answer to question no. 147855 , we explained that the view of the Shafi‘is is that what matters is the total value of the property, not the minimum threshold of each individual. So if the value of the real estate reaches the minimum threshold, each of them must give zakah, even if his own share does not reach that threshold.
Answer. Praise be to Allah. Zakat al-fitr should be given in the form of raw grains, not cooked, because of the hadith of Ibn ‘Umar (may Allah have mercy on him) who said: The Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) enjoined zakat al-fitr – one sa‘ of dates or one sa‘ of barley – on the Muslims, slave and free
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