How to Pay the Zakah of a Commercial Shop
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Question:
The questioner says: I have a shop selling foodstuffs, and I pay out the zakah continuously throughout the year, sometimes one hundred riyals, sometimes two hundred riyals, and sometimes items from the shop whose value is known. He asks: Is my practice correct regarding the method of paying the zakah?
Answer:
Zakah is one of the pillars of Islam. It becomes obligatory on wealth after the completion of a lunar year (hawl) if it reaches the minimum threshold (nisab). You must perform it and pay it out. If you pay it out before the completion of the lunar year, or pay out a portion of it out of consideration for the need of the poor and needy, is that counted as zakah? Here, this is zakah paid in advance; there is no harm in that. The important thing is that you do not leave any of the zakah in your liability without paying it out, whether you pay it all at once when it becomes obligatory, or you pay it in installments. You must record everything you pay out and calculate it later so that you are certain that you have paid the full amount of the zakah. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
The questioner says: I have a shop selling foodstuffs, and I pay out the zakah continuously throughout the year, sometimes one hundred riyals, sometimes two hundred riyals, and sometimes items from the shop whose value is known. He asks: Is my practice correct regarding the method of paying the zakah?
Answer:
Zakah is one of the pillars of Islam. It becomes obligatory on wealth after the completion of a lunar year (hawl) if it reaches the minimum threshold (nisab). You must perform it and pay it out. If you pay it out before the completion of the lunar year, or pay out a portion of it out of consideration for the need of the poor and needy, is that counted as zakah? Here, this is zakah paid in advance; there is no harm in that. The important thing is that you do not leave any of the zakah in your liability without paying it out, whether you pay it all at once when it becomes obligatory, or you pay it in installments. You must record everything you pay out and calculate it later so that you are certain that you have paid the full amount of the zakah. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Source
شرح كتاب التوحيد [ صالح الفوزان ]، باب من الشرك أن يستغيث بغير الله أو يدعو غيره — islamhouse.com (39:26)
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