The Disagreement Regarding the Zakah of Ornaments Made for Use from Gold or Silver
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The questioner:
May Allah reward you with good and do you well. After this, a message was sent by a listener who says: Your brother in Allah, Ashraf Muhammad Muhammad Badawi, an Egyptian teacher working in Jizan, has a long question, summarized as follows: Is there zakah on gold made as ornaments and adornment for a woman? If the answer is yes, please clarify these matters: Is the zakah on all the gold that reaches the nisab, which is eighty-five grams as the scholars said, or is it excluded from the nisab and the zakah is paid after the nisab? The gold my wife has is hers, and some of it is designated for my daughters. Is the nisab calculated for all of it together, or for each one separately? Then he says: The gold we have is used in making things that are not gold, which are for adornment. Do we include them in the weight, or do we exclude them? And finally, the gold we have was purchased at widely spaced intervals. How do we calculate the completion of the lunar year for it? May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh:
There is disagreement among the scholars regarding the zakah of ornaments made for use from gold or silver. The majority of scholars hold that there is no zakah on them because they are made for use, so they are like clothing, houses, and vehicles that are made for use, on which there is no zakah. Some scholars held that zakah is due on them even if they are made for use. In any case, paying the zakah on them is more cautious, purer for the conscience, and a way to avoid the disagreement. As for the nisab of gold, it is twenty mithqals, which is approximately eleven and a half dinars, or ninety-two grams or close to that. If this amount or more is reached, its zakah is paid as we mentioned, out of caution and to clear the conscience, its zakah is paid when this amount is reached.
And a full lunar year must pass from the time of its possession. As for what you mentioned about this gold being distributed among several women from your daughters, each one has her own ruling. If the wealth of each one reaches the nisab and a lunar year passes over it, and she wants to pay its zakah as we mentioned out of caution and to clear the conscience, that is better. But if what belongs to each one is less than the nisab, there is no zakah on it. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you with good. Regarding the things that are made with gold or are adornment in the gold, Shaykh Salim says: Do we exclude them from the weight, or how is it done?
The Shaykh:
They are not counted. Exclude what is mixed with the gold and silver; only pure gold and silver are considered when it reaches the nisab, meaning this is separated from that.
The presenter:
And if the gold was purchased at different times, as Shaykh Salih says.
The Shaykh:
Whatever has completed a lunar year from the time of its purchase, it is subject to zakah.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you with good, and may He do you good.
May Allah reward you with good and do you well. After this, a message was sent by a listener who says: Your brother in Allah, Ashraf Muhammad Muhammad Badawi, an Egyptian teacher working in Jizan, has a long question, summarized as follows: Is there zakah on gold made as ornaments and adornment for a woman? If the answer is yes, please clarify these matters: Is the zakah on all the gold that reaches the nisab, which is eighty-five grams as the scholars said, or is it excluded from the nisab and the zakah is paid after the nisab? The gold my wife has is hers, and some of it is designated for my daughters. Is the nisab calculated for all of it together, or for each one separately? Then he says: The gold we have is used in making things that are not gold, which are for adornment. Do we include them in the weight, or do we exclude them? And finally, the gold we have was purchased at widely spaced intervals. How do we calculate the completion of the lunar year for it? May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh:
There is disagreement among the scholars regarding the zakah of ornaments made for use from gold or silver. The majority of scholars hold that there is no zakah on them because they are made for use, so they are like clothing, houses, and vehicles that are made for use, on which there is no zakah. Some scholars held that zakah is due on them even if they are made for use. In any case, paying the zakah on them is more cautious, purer for the conscience, and a way to avoid the disagreement. As for the nisab of gold, it is twenty mithqals, which is approximately eleven and a half dinars, or ninety-two grams or close to that. If this amount or more is reached, its zakah is paid as we mentioned, out of caution and to clear the conscience, its zakah is paid when this amount is reached.
And a full lunar year must pass from the time of its possession. As for what you mentioned about this gold being distributed among several women from your daughters, each one has her own ruling. If the wealth of each one reaches the nisab and a lunar year passes over it, and she wants to pay its zakah as we mentioned out of caution and to clear the conscience, that is better. But if what belongs to each one is less than the nisab, there is no zakah on it. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you with good. Regarding the things that are made with gold or are adornment in the gold, Shaykh Salim says: Do we exclude them from the weight, or how is it done?
The Shaykh:
They are not counted. Exclude what is mixed with the gold and silver; only pure gold and silver are considered when it reaches the nisab, meaning this is separated from that.
The presenter:
And if the gold was purchased at different times, as Shaykh Salih says.
The Shaykh:
Whatever has completed a lunar year from the time of its purchase, it is subject to zakah.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you with good, and may He do you good.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 4455- الخلاف في زكاة الحلي المعد للاستعمال من الذهب أو الفضة - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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