What is the method for purifying a salary?
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The questioner:
Perhaps some of you, Shaykh Faisal, do not know how to purify a salary. Is there a way to convey this to them?
The Shaykh:
Purifying a salary is like purifying anything else. If a lunar year passes and it reaches the nisab (minimum threshold for zakah), he purifies it. However, if it is difficult for him to adhere to a specific lunar year for each salary, he may choose a specific time of the year to pay the zakah on what has accumulated with him by that date until the same date the following year. What has completed its lunar year has had its zakah paid on time, and what has not completed its lunar year has had its zakah paid early, and it is permissible to hasten the zakah in need.
The questioner:
Meaning, it is possible to purify the salary of Muharram this year in Muharram of the following year, and Safar in the following Safar, and so on. Or he may hasten it all, for example, in Ramadan or in Dhul-Hijjah?
The Shaykh:
He purifies in Ramadan, for example. He purifies in Ramadan everything he has, whether its lunar year has completed or not. Yes.
The questioner:
This is the method, and the other method.
The Shaykh:
The other method is difficult; it is to adhere to paying the zakah on each amount when its lunar year is completed.
The questioner:
Meaning, what is provided in Muharram is purified in the following Muharram, and so on.
The Shaykh:
Yes, and what is provided in the month of Safar is purified in the following Safar, and so on. This means that every month he pays for the previous year.
The presenter:
Yes, may Allah reward you with good.
Perhaps some of you, Shaykh Faisal, do not know how to purify a salary. Is there a way to convey this to them?
The Shaykh:
Purifying a salary is like purifying anything else. If a lunar year passes and it reaches the nisab (minimum threshold for zakah), he purifies it. However, if it is difficult for him to adhere to a specific lunar year for each salary, he may choose a specific time of the year to pay the zakah on what has accumulated with him by that date until the same date the following year. What has completed its lunar year has had its zakah paid on time, and what has not completed its lunar year has had its zakah paid early, and it is permissible to hasten the zakah in need.
The questioner:
Meaning, it is possible to purify the salary of Muharram this year in Muharram of the following year, and Safar in the following Safar, and so on. Or he may hasten it all, for example, in Ramadan or in Dhul-Hijjah?
The Shaykh:
He purifies in Ramadan, for example. He purifies in Ramadan everything he has, whether its lunar year has completed or not. Yes.
The questioner:
This is the method, and the other method.
The Shaykh:
The other method is difficult; it is to adhere to paying the zakah on each amount when its lunar year is completed.
The questioner:
Meaning, what is provided in Muharram is purified in the following Muharram, and so on.
The Shaykh:
Yes, and what is provided in the month of Safar is purified in the following Safar, and so on. This means that every month he pays for the previous year.
The presenter:
Yes, may Allah reward you with good.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما كيفية تزكية الراتب؟ الشيخ صالح بن فوزان الفوزان — youtube.com
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