Zakat from Al-Quduri (may Allah show him mercy)

Zakat from Al-Quduri (may Allah show him mercy)

What does it mean? Grow and purify. Legally it’s to pay someone a specific amount for the sake of Allah (the Exalted)

What is the amount? 2.5 % or one pound of out of forty

What is nisab? Is the threshold once reached the zakah becomes necessary to pay, they have to meet the threshold for one year or most of the year. The nisab is the value of one hundred grams of gold. (8.3 tola approx)

Who has to pay? It is necessary for each free, Muslim, mature who has appropriate funds for a year to pay.

Who is exempt? Children, insane, indebted slave, one whose debt are more than funds.

What you not pay zakat on?  Housing, clothes you wear, furniture, vehicles, servants of the house, tools you use – basically anything for personal use. You have to own what you are paying zakah for. No zakah for an extra house unless you want to sell it but you pay zakah on the money attained from renting.

What do you pay zakah on? Wealth, gold 100 grams, silver 700 grams, camel more than five, cows more than thirty, sheep more than thirty

Gold? It is paid on 20 gram increments after threshold is reached.

Silver in 140 gram increments after threshold is reached.

Trading stock? If it reaching the value of 100 grams of gold then you pay zakah on it.

Fruits? A tenth according to AH and if it reaches 165 litres according to IM and AY. Nothing for vegetables.

How do you give zakah? By intention when handing over or when separating from other wealth.

Who can you pay it to? There are eight categories mentioned that you can pay zakah to.

1.       Faqir: he has the least of anything

2.       Maskeen: has nothing

3.       Collector

4.       New Muslim

5.       Free a slave who has agreed fee for freedom

6.       In debt: the one needing to pay debt now

7.       In the path of Allah: hajj, student of knowledge

8.       Ibn sabeel: person who has lost his wealth without access to it

You can pay or all or one but shafi’s have to pay to each.

Who can you not pay it to?

1.       Non Muslim –dhimmi

2.       Build Masjid

3.       Not for kafan

4.       Buy slave to free

5.       Rich  - more than nisab

6.       Cannot give to grandfather nor to grandchildren or vice versa

7.       Nor husband to wife or vice versa

8.       Ahl Al-Bayt: family of Ali, Abbas, Jafir, Aqeel, Harith (may Allah be pleased with them) and their servants.

If you give zakah to someone who you thought was poor but was rich do you repeat it? Not according to reliable position of AH and IM

Disliked to transfer zakah to another country but should be disturbed in the region the person is in. With the exception of a disaster that strikes a people.

Sadaqa/fitra

Necessary on whoever pays zakah.

He pays for young children not older. Wife pays for herself.

The value? 2.5 kg of the value of wheat.

It’s necessary to give after sunrise on eid

Mustab to give before prayer. It can be paid in advance.

Can be paid in advance and if he delays it then it still needs to be paid.

Udiyyah/sacrifice

AH wajib, IM and AY emphasised Sunnah (reliable position)

Everyone who pays zakah performs it for himself and he pays for young children

For each one a sheep, camel or seven year old cow.

The person travelling at this time does not perform it

The time is the tenth of dhu hijjah after the eid prayer. It can be done in the two days after this.

You can feed the rich, poor or keep it but its is desired give a third away, keep a third for guests and poor