How to Pay the Zakah on a Warehouse of Divided Foodstuffs
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Question:
The questioner says: I have a shop selling foodstuffs, and I pay the zakah continuously throughout the year, sometimes one hundred riyals, sometimes two hundred riyals, and sometimes items from the shop whose value is known. The question is: Is my practice correct regarding how to pay the zakah?
Answer:
Zakah is one of the pillars of Islam. It becomes obligatory on wealth after the completion of the lunar year, once it reaches the minimum threshold. You must perform it and pay it. If you pay it before that, before the completion of the lunar year, or if you pay a portion of it considering the need of the needy and the poor, is that counted as zakah? Here, this is zakah paid in advance; there is nothing wrong with that. The important thing is that you do not leave any of the zakah in your liability without paying it, whether you pay it all at the time it becomes obligatory or you pay it in installments. You must record everything you pay and calculate it later so that you are certain you have paid the full amount of zakah.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
The questioner says: I have a shop selling foodstuffs, and I pay the zakah continuously throughout the year, sometimes one hundred riyals, sometimes two hundred riyals, and sometimes items from the shop whose value is known. The question is: Is my practice correct regarding how to pay the zakah?
Answer:
Zakah is one of the pillars of Islam. It becomes obligatory on wealth after the completion of the lunar year, once it reaches the minimum threshold. You must perform it and pay it. If you pay it before that, before the completion of the lunar year, or if you pay a portion of it considering the need of the needy and the poor, is that counted as zakah? Here, this is zakah paid in advance; there is nothing wrong with that. The important thing is that you do not leave any of the zakah in your liability without paying it, whether you pay it all at the time it becomes obligatory or you pay it in installments. You must record everything you pay and calculate it later so that you are certain you have paid the full amount of zakah.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، باب من الشرك أن يستغيث بغير الله أو يدعو غيره — youtube.com (39:27)
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