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How to pay zakah for one who has a rented laundry business paid in installments

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The questioner:
May Allah reward you with good and do you well. The listener, Sad Jim from al-Kharj, sent a question and says: I have a laundry business that another person rented from me for a period of one year and six months. So how is the zakah calculated on these monthly installments, knowing that the installments have already ended? May Allah reward you with good. I have a laundry business that another person rented from me for a period of one year and six months. So how is the zakah calculated on these monthly installments, knowing that the installments have ended? It seems we rented it out on an installment basis.

The Shaykh:
Yes, zakah is obligatory on the rent if a lunar year has passed since the start of the contract.

The presenter:
Yes, yes.

The Shaykh:
Zakah is obligatory on the rent if a lunar year has passed since the start of the contract, whether this rent is paid in a lump sum or in installments. If a year has passed since the contract was executed, then zakah is obligatory on it, whether it has reached him or it is still in the liability of the tenant. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، كيفية إخراج الزكاة لمن لديه مغسلة مؤجرة يُدفع له على شكل أقساط - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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