Ruling on paying zakah monthly with the salary
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
The questioner:
Peace be upon you. Is it permissible to pay zakah every month when receiving the salary, meaning so that a person does not fall into a difficulty where...
The Shaykh:
If he wants to pay it early, there is no harm. If he wants to pay it early, there is no harm, if Allah created...
The questioner:
Yes, this is one who said, he said: "Instead of sitting and calculating and such, whenever my salary comes, I take two and a half percent of my salary, and, if Allah wills, that is our zakah."
The Shaykh:
And he saves it to spend it, and he saves it to spend it.
The questioner:
By Allah, if he said the savings...
The Shaykh:
And if his salary is spent on him, he owes no zakah. If he is a worker in the mines or elsewhere, and he saves it, and he wants to pay zakah, there is no harm. Or if one is provided for and spends what he is given, he owes no zakah.
The questioner:
If it were... then it is zakah.
The Shaykh:
For Allah, the saved amount, if it remains with him and he saves it until the lunar year (hawl) passes over it, and he pays the reward early, there is no harm. But if it is merely charity, or if he does not save it and eats it, it is called charity, not zakah.
Peace be upon you. Is it permissible to pay zakah every month when receiving the salary, meaning so that a person does not fall into a difficulty where...
The Shaykh:
If he wants to pay it early, there is no harm. If he wants to pay it early, there is no harm, if Allah created...
The questioner:
Yes, this is one who said, he said: "Instead of sitting and calculating and such, whenever my salary comes, I take two and a half percent of my salary, and, if Allah wills, that is our zakah."
The Shaykh:
And he saves it to spend it, and he saves it to spend it.
The questioner:
By Allah, if he said the savings...
The Shaykh:
And if his salary is spent on him, he owes no zakah. If he is a worker in the mines or elsewhere, and he saves it, and he wants to pay zakah, there is no harm. Or if one is provided for and spends what he is given, he owes no zakah.
The questioner:
If it were... then it is zakah.
The Shaykh:
For Allah, the saved amount, if it remains with him and he saves it until the lunar year (hawl) passes over it, and he pays the reward early, there is no harm. But if it is merely charity, or if he does not save it and eats it, it is called charity, not zakah.
Source
شرح بلوغ المرام [ ابن باز ] [ الشرح الجديد ]، باب الجزية والهدنة — islamhouse.com (13:38)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.