Making up the zakah of past years for one who did not pay it
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: If a person did not pay the zakah on his wealth for several years, whether out of ignorance, laziness, or stinginess, is he required to pay the zakah for those past years?
Answer:
Without a doubt, we calculate it for the past years and he pays it, because it remains a debt in his liability. His liability is not cleared except by paying it, and it is not waived from him by the passage of years or a year; it is not waived from him. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: If a person did not pay the zakah on his wealth for several years, whether out of ignorance, laziness, or stinginess, is he required to pay the zakah for those past years?
Answer:
Without a doubt, we calculate it for the past years and he pays it, because it remains a debt in his liability. His liability is not cleared except by paying it, and it is not waived from him by the passage of years or a year; it is not waived from him. Yes.
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من كتاب الزكاة : باب الحث عليها والتشديد في منعها — islamhouse.com (1:02:00)
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