The Ruling on the Zakah of Forbidden Wealth
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. If most of a person's wealth is forbidden, and it reaches the nisab (minimum threshold for zakah), and a lunar year has passed over it, is there zakah on it? And what is the ruling if all of the wealth is forbidden?
Answer:
This is invalid and is not called ownership; you only find ownership in what is possessed, and this is not owned by anyone. This is invalid. Its ruling is that if a young man is with his companion, he should turn to Allah and not use it. Rather, he should take it out and place it in a general project, like lost money that has no owner. He places it in a general project from which people benefit, and he uses it after repentance. He does not use the forbidden, nor does he take ownership of it, and there is no zakah in it, because it has no owner.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. If most of a person's wealth is forbidden, and it reaches the nisab (minimum threshold for zakah), and a lunar year has passed over it, is there zakah on it? And what is the ruling if all of the wealth is forbidden?
Answer:
This is invalid and is not called ownership; you only find ownership in what is possessed, and this is not owned by anyone. This is invalid. Its ruling is that if a young man is with his companion, he should turn to Allah and not use it. Rather, he should take it out and place it in a general project, like lost money that has no owner. He places it in a general project from which people benefit, and he uses it after repentance. He does not use the forbidden, nor does he take ownership of it, and there is no zakah in it, because it has no owner.
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