Zakah on the fruit of date palms sold for dirhams
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, a man sold his date palms for twenty-seven thousand riyals. Does he pay the zakah in riyals? Or is it necessary for him to buy dates and pay them as his zakah?
The Shaykh:
He sold his date palms, yes, you say he sold his date palms and accepted
The questioner:
He sold his date palms. Yes.
The Shaykh:
He sold the fruit of his date palms for dirhams after it began to ripen. Is there no harm in that? He pays the zakah from the dirhams, he calculates the zakah from the dirhams, because they are the compensation for the dates, so he pays the zakah from the dirhams. He is not required to go and buy dates, because zakah is a means of alleviating need, so he pays from what he has, and what he has now is dirhams.
The questioner:
May Allah reward him, he says.
The Shaykh:
But he calculates it as zakah on dates, not zakah on dirhams; he calculates it as the zakah of the dates. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, a man sold his date palms for twenty-seven thousand riyals. Does he pay the zakah in riyals? Or is it necessary for him to buy dates and pay them as his zakah?
The Shaykh:
He sold his date palms, yes, you say he sold his date palms and accepted
The questioner:
He sold his date palms. Yes.
The Shaykh:
He sold the fruit of his date palms for dirhams after it began to ripen. Is there no harm in that? He pays the zakah from the dirhams, he calculates the zakah from the dirhams, because they are the compensation for the dates, so he pays the zakah from the dirhams. He is not required to go and buy dates, because zakah is a means of alleviating need, so he pays from what he has, and what he has now is dirhams.
The questioner:
May Allah reward him, he says.
The Shaykh:
But he calculates it as zakah on dates, not zakah on dirhams; he calculates it as the zakah of the dates. Yes.
Source
شرح الكافية الشافية في الانتصار للفرقة الناجية [ القصيدة النونية ] [ صالح الفوزان ]، بداية من قوله : وكذلك الشحام والعلاف والنجار أهل الجهل بالقرآن — islamhouse.com (32:10)
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