By which calendar is the zakah on wealth calculated?
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Question:
The questioner asks: Is the zakah on wealth calculated by the Gregorian calendar, since that is how it is described? Or by the Hijri calendar?
Answer:
It is not up to us to follow the calendar; what is required of us is the completion of twelve months. When twelve months have passed over the wealth, the zakah becomes obligatory on it. Twelve months is known, as stated in[At-Tawbah 9:36]. Yes.
The questioner asks: Is the zakah on wealth calculated by the Gregorian calendar, since that is how it is described? Or by the Hijri calendar?
Answer:
It is not up to us to follow the calendar; what is required of us is the completion of twelve months. When twelve months have passed over the wealth, the zakah becomes obligatory on it. Twelve months is known, as stated in
Indeed, the number of months with Allah is twelve [lunar] months in the register of Allah
إِنَّ عِدَّةَ الشُّهُورِ عِندَ اللَّهِ اثْنَا عَشَرَ شَهْرًا فِي كِتَابِ اللَّهِ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، أي تاريخ تحسب به زكاة المال؟ للشيخ الفوزان — youtube.com
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