The Zakah of Gold and Currency: What is the Amount and What is the Expiation?
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The questioner : Shaykh Muhammad, this is a woman on the line asking for clarification. She says: I am asking about the zakah of gold, what is its amount, and about the zakah of currency and the expiation?
The Shaykh : In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. May Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and his Companions, and upon those who follow them with excellence until the Day of Judgment. This question combines three questions.
The questioner : Yes, three parts. Yes.
The Shaykh : All right, as for the zakah of gold, meaning the jewelry a woman wears, if it reaches the nisab, which is eighty-five grams, or approximately ten and a half pounds, then its zakah becomes obligatory. The method of zakah is to estimate its value when the lunar year is complete and pay out one-tenth of a quarter, meaning two and a half riyals per thousand, or twenty-five riyals per thousand. This is the standard. As for the zakah of dirhams, it is fifty-six silver riyals, or the value of that in the known paper currency. As for the expiation of an oath.
If the one who swears says "if Allah wills" in his oath, then there is no expiation on him, whether he does it or not. If he says, "By Allah, if Allah wills, I will fast tomorrow," then he has the choice: if he wishes, he fasts, and if he wishes, he does not fast, and nothing is required of him, because he coupled it with the phrase "if Allah wills." Likewise, if he says, "By Allah, if Allah wills, I will wear this garment," and he does not wear it, then nothing is required of him, because "if Allah wills" makes the oath permissible: if the person wishes, he fulfills it, and if he wishes, he does not fulfill it?
But if he did not say that, and he swore and then went against what he swore to, where is this expiation?
[Al-Ma'idah 5:89] consecutively, and the feeding for each person is one kilo of rice. It is good to include something with it to make it a meal.
Such as meat from chicken or otherwise. Whether he gives it to one household if there are ten people in it, or gives it to two households, or gives it to ten households, the important thing is that he feeds ten poor people. If he wishes, he can prepare a lunch or dinner and invite them to it; if he invites them and they all eat, meaning they have lunch or dinner, that suffices for him.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : May Allah reward you, and thank you to the questioner.
The Shaykh : In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. May Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and his Companions, and upon those who follow them with excellence until the Day of Judgment. This question combines three questions.
The questioner : Yes, three parts. Yes.
The Shaykh : All right, as for the zakah of gold, meaning the jewelry a woman wears, if it reaches the nisab, which is eighty-five grams, or approximately ten and a half pounds, then its zakah becomes obligatory. The method of zakah is to estimate its value when the lunar year is complete and pay out one-tenth of a quarter, meaning two and a half riyals per thousand, or twenty-five riyals per thousand. This is the standard. As for the zakah of dirhams, it is fifty-six silver riyals, or the value of that in the known paper currency. As for the expiation of an oath.
If the one who swears says "if Allah wills" in his oath, then there is no expiation on him, whether he does it or not. If he says, "By Allah, if Allah wills, I will fast tomorrow," then he has the choice: if he wishes, he fasts, and if he wishes, he does not fast, and nothing is required of him, because he coupled it with the phrase "if Allah wills." Likewise, if he says, "By Allah, if Allah wills, I will wear this garment," and he does not wear it, then nothing is required of him, because "if Allah wills" makes the oath permissible: if the person wishes, he fulfills it, and if he wishes, he does not fulfill it?
But if he did not say that, and he swore and then went against what he swore to, where is this expiation?
the feeding of ten needy people from the average of that which you feed your [own] families or clothing them or the freeing of a slave. But whoever cannot find [or afford it] - then a fast of three days
إِطْعَامُ عَشَرَةِ مَسَاكِينَ مِنْ أَوْسَطِ مَا تُطْعِمُونَ أَهْلِيكُمْ أَوْ كِسْوَتُهُمْ أَوْ تَحْرِيرُ رَقَبَةٍ فَمَن لَّمْ يَجِدْ فَصِيَامُ ثَلَاثَةِ أَيَّامٍSuch as meat from chicken or otherwise. Whether he gives it to one household if there are ten people in it, or gives it to two households, or gives it to ten households, the important thing is that he feeds ten poor people. If he wishes, he can prepare a lunch or dinner and invite them to it; if he invites them and they all eat, meaning they have lunch or dinner, that suffices for him.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : May Allah reward you, and thank you to the questioner.
Source
قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، 865- زكاة الذهب والنقد ما مقدارها وما مقدار الكفارة؟/سؤال على الهاتف 📞 /ابن عثيمين — youtube.com
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