What is the ruling on paying the zakah of crops in cash?
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The questioner:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: Is it permissible for me to pay money in lieu of the dates and raisins for which zakah has become obligatory?
The Shaykh:
What is it?
The questioner:
Is it permissible to pay money in lieu of the dates and raisins for which zakah has become obligatory?
The Shaykh:
His intention is the value, meaning. Yes. It is permissible to pay the value; there is no contradiction. It is permissible; you pay the value. You appraise what is obligatory upon you from the dates or the barley, or you appraise it and convert it into dirhams; there is no contradiction. Or if you sell the fruit, if you sell all the fruit, you pay zakah on the value, paying half of one-tenth or the full one-tenth, as previously mentioned. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: Is it permissible for me to pay money in lieu of the dates and raisins for which zakah has become obligatory?
The Shaykh:
What is it?
The questioner:
Is it permissible to pay money in lieu of the dates and raisins for which zakah has become obligatory?
The Shaykh:
His intention is the value, meaning. Yes. It is permissible to pay the value; there is no contradiction. It is permissible; you pay the value. You appraise what is obligatory upon you from the dates or the barley, or you appraise it and convert it into dirhams; there is no contradiction. Or if you sell the fruit, if you sell all the fruit, you pay zakah on the value, paying half of one-tenth or the full one-tenth, as previously mentioned. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 672- ما حكم إخراج زكاة الزروع نقدًا؟|الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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