How does the owner of a grocery store calculate his zakah?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, the questioner says: I am the owner of a grocery store. Is it obligatory for me to take inventory of the store and pay its zakah? I have heard one of the students of knowledge say so, and I want to be sure. Most of the items in the store have not been there for a full lunar year.
Answer:
The items in the store that are displayed for sale are goods called trade goods. The criterion is not the passage of a lunar year over them, but the passage of a lunar year over the capital with which you buy and sell. When a lunar year has passed over the capital, you take inventory of the items in the store that are for sale, appraise them, sum up their value, and pay the zakah. The lunar year is calculated on the capital, not on the trade goods or merchandise in it. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, the questioner says: I am the owner of a grocery store. Is it obligatory for me to take inventory of the store and pay its zakah? I have heard one of the students of knowledge say so, and I want to be sure. Most of the items in the store have not been there for a full lunar year.
Answer:
The items in the store that are displayed for sale are goods called trade goods. The criterion is not the passage of a lunar year over them, but the passage of a lunar year over the capital with which you buy and sell. When a lunar year has passed over the capital, you take inventory of the items in the store that are for sale, appraise them, sum up their value, and pay the zakah. The lunar year is calculated on the capital, not on the trade goods or merchandise in it. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، كيف يحسب صاحب البقالة زكاته؟ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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