Zakah on accumulated wealth over several years used to build a house for rent
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A woman is asking about money she has been accumulating for more than twenty years. She did not pay the zakah on that money because she was ignorant of the obligation. Then she used that money to build a house and has been renting it out. The question is: Does she owe anything in this regard? If she owes the zakah on that money, can she estimate it approximately and pay the zakah? And does she owe the zakah for all the years that passed before she built the house?
Answer:
Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A woman is asking about money she has been accumulating for more than twenty years. She did not pay the zakah on that money because she was ignorant of the obligation. Then she used that money to build a house and has been renting it out. The question is: Does she owe anything in this regard? If she owes the zakah on that money, can she estimate it approximately and pay the zakah? And does she owe the zakah for all the years that passed before she built the house?
Answer:
Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 141/111 شرح زاد المستقنع/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (27:55)
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