Is there zakah in the religion?
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Question:
May Allah bless you, Honorable Shaykh, and benefit us with your knowledge, and may Allah reward you with the best reward for us and for the Muslims. The questioner says: I have a sum of money with people. They pay me in monthly installments. I calculated it at the end of the lunar year and found it to be four hundred thousand riyals, so I paid its zakah. In the second lunar year, they paid only fifty thousand riyals of it, leaving three hundred and fifty thousand. Do I pay zakah on the four hundred thousand once, or do I pay only on the three hundred and fifty thousand?
Answer:
Once the lunar year has completed, you pay zakah on all your wealth, whether it is with you or with people as debts owed to you. You count it all and give the zakah of the whole, which is one-quarter of a tenth, on the money in your hand and the money in the hands of people. You count it all and pay its zakah.
May Allah bless you, Honorable Shaykh, and benefit us with your knowledge, and may Allah reward you with the best reward for us and for the Muslims. The questioner says: I have a sum of money with people. They pay me in monthly installments. I calculated it at the end of the lunar year and found it to be four hundred thousand riyals, so I paid its zakah. In the second lunar year, they paid only fifty thousand riyals of it, leaving three hundred and fifty thousand. Do I pay zakah on the four hundred thousand once, or do I pay only on the three hundred and fifty thousand?
Answer:
Once the lunar year has completed, you pay zakah on all your wealth, whether it is with you or with people as debts owed to you. You count it all and give the zakah of the whole, which is one-quarter of a tenth, on the money in your hand and the money in the hands of people. You count it all and pay its zakah.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل في الدين زكاة؟ للشيخ الفوزان — youtube.com (0:16)
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