Zakah on Employees' Salaries
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Question: How is zakah calculated on money that increases every month from an employee's salary? It is possible that the lunar year (hawl) passes and he has in his possession an amount that reaches the threshold for zakah, but some of it has not yet completed a lunar year. What should he do with it?
Answer: If you designate a specific month of the year in which to pay the zakah on the wealth you have accumulated and possess, such as Ramadan, for example, that is a good thing. You pay the zakah on what you have; if a lunar year has passed over it, the zakah has been paid at its proper time, and if a lunar year has not yet passed over it, you have paid its zakah early. Paying zakah early is permissible if it is for a legitimate religious purpose, and this is the only way people (especially employees) can manage it: they designate a month of the year to be the time for paying their zakah, and they do so until the same month of the following year. And Allah knows best.
at that time, and if it has not been completed, its zakah has been paid early. Paying zakah early is permissible if it is for a legitimate religious purpose, and this is what people (especially employees) have no choice but to do: they designate a month of the year as the time to pay their zakah, and then do the same in the following year. And Allah knows best.
Answer: If you designate a specific month of the year in which to pay the zakah on the wealth you have accumulated and possess, such as Ramadan, for example, that is a good thing. You pay the zakah on what you have; if a lunar year has passed over it, the zakah has been paid at its proper time, and if a lunar year has not yet passed over it, you have paid its zakah early. Paying zakah early is permissible if it is for a legitimate religious purpose, and this is the only way people (especially employees) can manage it: they designate a month of the year to be the time for paying their zakah, and they do so until the same month of the following year. And Allah knows best.
at that time, and if it has not been completed, its zakah has been paid early. Paying zakah early is permissible if it is for a legitimate religious purpose, and this is what people (especially employees) have no choice but to do: they designate a month of the year as the time to pay their zakah, and then do the same in the following year. And Allah knows best.