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Wants to know how to pay Zakah on her gold
asa.for my marriage my parents gave me 480gms of gold as dowry and i was given 56gms as mahar by my husband.for the past 6 months about 240gms is kept in abank for loan.the only gold i use weighs about 104gms including my mahar.can u pls explain the amount i should pay as zakat and whether it should be in the form of money or gold itself.will the.. More
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Giving Zakah to rich seeker of knowledge
A person is a man of resources. His daughter is studying abroad. He requested for financial assistance for the education of his daughter even from the Zakat fund. His opinion is that a student (whereever he/she is studying) is entitled for Zakat even his/her father is finacially capable of meeting the expneses and is "Ghani"... More
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Spending Zakah money for educational and cultural purposes
Alsalm alykom,I know that zaka should go precisely to eight catagories as stated in Quran, the most catagory is poor people, it is not easy in our country to identify poor people who hide their poverty and do not ask charities,they really deserve zaka. Other catagory is poor people who can work or can learn some skills to work but they do not have.. More
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Using approximation in calculating Zakah
Do we really need to calculate Zakat?What we do we give money almost every month for Zakat and then charity our Niat is that we calculate approximately for Gold and some money we have for whole year.Do you think approximation is acceptable or we need to calculate exactly... More
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Giving the servant his salary from Zakah
assalamoalaikum, my que is that can we gv zakat as salary to servernt ? or i shd gve extra money as zakat bcz my mum gve them pay n cn she do neeyat of zakat pls ans sm one has told me u cn gv them zakat guide me .. More
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Calculating Zakah on a rice mill
I am operating a small rice mill, I want to ask on how would I compute my Zakah on the income I derived from its operation. Shall I include the total cost of operation for one lunar year such as a) fuel, oil and other maintenance cost; and, b) total wage for the operator for one year, as basis in computing zakat for my income in the operation of this.. More
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Paying Zakah to one's poor parents-in-law
is it permissible to give zakat money to poor father in law and poor mother in law?.. More
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Her husband insistently refuses to pay Zakah
Dear scholar, My husband dont pay zakath.Even though i talled him he does not care.Further i askked him to pay Eid sacrifice and reward of that but he did not pay that. What is my concern is will i be also punished for not to pay the Zakath but my husband is only controling the money matters even though i have my own property[my parent gave ]? Please.. More
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Feeding cats as an act of charity
Assalamualaikum Wa Rahamathulillahi Wa Barakatahu, Is feeding cats amount to charity, my husband made it a point to feed cats whenever they comes, and also insist me to feed them, but I fear them, because they roam around me which makes me scare, and always requested my husband to drop this practise. My husband says staying in UAE we hardly finds.. More
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Zakah on salary and rent money
Dear Imam. My friend has a property with annual rental income of 15,000 dollars. He uses this money for family use. He also owns a piece of land worth 16000 dollars. At the same time he has a loan from the bank to the amount of 30,000 dollars. He is employed with 6 figure salary but his savings are Zero. He intends to pay off loan as soon as his.. More
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She has jewelry but does not have money to pay its Zakah
(on behalf of a sister) Assalamualaikum, I got married in December 2005 and I was given a considerable amount of Gold jewelry by my parents and in laws on which zakat is wajib.When I came to Canada I brought some gold jewellery with me and the big ones are back at my home. My father is paying zakat for the rest of my jewelry since the time they were.. More
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Zakah on shares bought for the purpose of benefitting from their revenue
Assalam o Alaikum I have invested some money as a sleeping partner with Islamic Bank in form of shares / certificates for 07 years with sole intention of only gaining annual profit / dividends. I do not have any intention to engage in any trade of shares / certificates. The bank further invests that money in providing Islamic financing to its customers.. More
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Zakah on money prepared for the construction of house
Question about Zakat I am constructing a house which initially I intended to give on Rent. Recently my wife and children have relocated to the same Area and due to security reasons I am not planning put them in new house under construction. Instead, I have rented one portion of my brother in Law house in the same Area as he will take care of them... More
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Forms of charity other than giving money
Are there any non – monetary (financial) forms of charity i.e. those not Involving money; and do their reward Is equal to that from monetary forms of charity,
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He paid Zakah on the profit of a sold piece of land
I have purchased a land for real estate business and sold it after three months in which i have got a net profit of 4 lakhs indian currency. i have disbersed 2.5%percent of the profit as ZAKATH WHEN RECEIVED THE AMOUNT.Half of then zakath paid to my younger married dayghter who is poor and i seems that she include in MISKEEN categery of zakath recivers.quar.. More
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