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This ebook contains answers to the following questions:
- What is Zakāh?
- Why is it called Zakāh?
- What is the ruling of Zakāh?
- What is the ruling of a person who knowingly withholds Zakāh?
- What is the punishment for withholding Zakāh?
- When was Zakāh legislated?
- What are the benefits of giving Zakāh?
- When does Zakāh become obligatory upon a person?
- What date does the year begin and end, to know whether one’s wealth is above the Niṣāb?
- Must Zakāh be given in Ramadān?
- Can a person delay Zakāh or give it earlier than it is due?
- Can a person delay the distribution of Zakāh?
- What is the niṣāb (minimum threshold) after which Zakāh must be given?
- Is Niṣāb measured by the value of gold or silver?
- Is Zakāh due if savings decrease below the Niṣāb throughout the year and then exceed it towards the end of the year?
- What types of wealth is Zakāh due upon?
- How much Zakāh is given?
- How is Zakāh on money calculated?
- Does an orphan have to pay Zakāh?
- Is Zakāh obligatory upon a person who has debts?
- Is Zakāh due on Mahr (dowry) promised or received by a woman?
- Is Zakāh due on the money of organisations such as mosques, charitable institutions, public universities and government treasury?
- Is Zakāh due on money placed in a trust for a child or a group of people?
- Is Zakāh due on money which has been set aside for a near event, such as a wedding or purchase?
- Is Zakāh due on money which has been loaned to a Masjid as Qard Ḥasanah?
- Is Zakāh due on rental property?
- Is Zakāh due on personal assets?
- Is Zakāh due on personal property which is advertised for sale?
- Is Zakāh due on cryptocurrency?
- Is Zakāh due on wealth earned through Harām?
- Is Zakāh due on shares and stocks?
- Is Zakāh due on a loan?
- Is Zakāh due on money if it is inaccessible due it being used as a bond or security?
- Is Zakāh due on gold and silver which has been bought as an investment?
- Is Zakāh due on gold and silver that is worn as personal jewellery?
- Is Zakāh due on precious stones such as diamonds, emeralds as well as pearls?
- Is Zakāh due on merchandise or stock?
- Is Zakāh due on merchandise which is considered as “dead stock” or “end of season stock”?
- Is the value of a person’s merchandise calculated according to its buying price or retail selling price?
- Is the value of a person’s merchandise according to the wholesale price or item price?
- If Zakāh is due on merchandise, however the business owner is asset rich and cash poor, how can it be given?
- Is Zakāh due on money held in a business account?
- Is Zakāh accepted from money which has been earned through Ḥarām means?
- Is Zakāh taken from money that contains a mixture of Ḥalāl and Ḥarām?
- If a person did not give Zakāh for a few years, what must be done?
- To whom is Zakāh given?
- How much Zakāh money can be given to the poor?
- Can Zakāh be given to one’s parents who are needy?
- Can Zakāh be given to one’s brothers and sisters?
- Who else can Zakāh not be given to?
- Can a woman give her Zakāh to her husband who is poor?
- Can a person pay the debts of his wife, children or parents from his Zakāh?
- Can Zakāh be given to a student of knowledge?
- Can Zakāh be given to a Fāsiq (sinner), one who does not pray or a Mubtadi’ (innovator)?
- Can a healthy working person be given Zakāh?
- Can a loan be directly paid off on behalf of those in debt, or must the money be given to the person to pay off the loan himself?
- Can the loan of a deceased person be paid off through Zakāh?
- Can Zakāh take the place of a loan which is waived?
- Should Zakāh be given to charities to distribute?
- Can Zakāh be given to a charity to buy food packs?
- Is it better to distribute Zakāh locally or internationally?
- Are there poor people in the West to whom Zakāh can be given?
- Can Zakāh be used to build mosques?
- If a large amount of wealth is received in one go, such as inheritance, gift or charity, how is Zakāh given?
- Is it allowed for charities to invest Zakāh money for it to increase?
- Can money be invested in an asset to evade Zakāh?
