The Amount of Zakah on Gold Not in Use

Question:
We return at the beginning of this episode to a message sent to the program from al-Qasim, sent by one of our sisters from there, who says: Sad, 'Ayn, Nun. Our sister, we presented a collection of her questions in a previous episode, and in this meeting she asks, Honorable Shaykh, saying: I have gold worth one thousand eight hundred riyals. Is there zakah on it? And what is the amount? Even though I do not use that gold, and years pass and I do not wear it? May Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and his Companions. To proceed: If gold reaches the nisab, which is twenty mithqals, and the Saudi riyal is thirteen and a half riyals, then zakah becomes obligatory on it if it is kept for accumulation. Zakah becomes obligatory on it by the scholarly consensus (ijma') of the people of knowledge, because it is zakatable wealth, and it has been prepared for accumulation and wealth, not for wearing and adornment. So there is zakah on it without disagreement, and the amount of zakah is one-quarter of a tenth. We repeat the nisab in Saudi riyals, so we say: If it reaches eleven and a half riyals, it reaches the nisab. Eleven and a half riyals reaches the nisab, and there is zakah on it as mentioned before. And whatever exceeds that is calculated accordingly. What the questioner mentioned, that years have passed and she has been holding onto this gold, and she has not paid its zakah, and it reaches the nisab, then she has erred in that. It is obligatory for her to count the years and to pay her zakah, because it is a debt in her liability. Yes.