The zakah on the money from a rented hotel
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Question:
Salih, may Allah preserve you and bless you. This questioner says: Regarding the zakah on money, please, I have a hotel that I invest by subleasing it for an amount of five million riyals, and the hotel was purchased for, or its price is, seven hundred million riyals. How do I pay the zakah? Do I pay it on the income or on the value of the hotel?
Answer:
The income you receive from the hotel; the hotel is your property now, so you pay zakah on what comes in from its produce. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence the Shaykh
Salih, may Allah preserve you and bless you. This questioner says: Regarding the zakah on money, please, I have a hotel that I invest by subleasing it for an amount of five million riyals, and the hotel was purchased for, or its price is, seven hundred million riyals. How do I pay the zakah? Do I pay it on the income or on the value of the hotel?
Answer:
The income you receive from the hotel; the hotel is your property now, so you pay zakah on what comes in from its produce. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence the Shaykh
Source
قناة «إذاعة القرآن الكريم»، نور على الدرب مع معالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان ح7485 — youtube.com (11:26)
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