Zakah is obligatory on the capital and on the profit
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Question:
May Allah reward you with good, and may He do you good. A listener says: The accountant Muhammad 'Abd al-Hamid Rashid from Jeddah asks and says: I have been working here for a period, and a sum of money has accumulated for me, and I am investing it in one of the institutions now, and I ask about how to calculate the zakah. May Allah reward you with good. Is it on the money, on the capital and the profit, or on the profit only? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
Zakah is obligatory on all of it, on the capital and on the profit, because the profit is a follower of the capital. Yes.
May Allah reward you with good, and may He do you good. A listener says: The accountant Muhammad 'Abd al-Hamid Rashid from Jeddah asks and says: I have been working here for a period, and a sum of money has accumulated for me, and I am investing it in one of the institutions now, and I ask about how to calculate the zakah. May Allah reward you with good. Is it on the money, on the capital and the profit, or on the profit only? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
Zakah is obligatory on all of it, on the capital and on the profit, because the profit is a follower of the capital. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 4291- الزكاة تجب في رأس المال وفي الربح - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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