Zakah on Salaries
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If a person receives a salary for his job and takes this salary at the end of every month, how does he pay the zakah on the money for this salary? Some of the salaries from this job do not complete a lunar year of possession, some are for a year, some for ten months, and some for eight. So, if at the end of the year he pays the zakah on the money that has accumulated with him, does he hasten the zakah, or does he wait for each month until a lunar year of possession passes over every amount of money?
Its zakah is not obligatory until a lunar year of possession has passed over it. If he wishes, he can monitor the money that comes to him bit by bit and pay the zakah on each amount when its lunar year of possession is completed, but this is difficult. If he wishes, he can pay the zakah when the lunar year of possession of the first salary is completed, and then continue with that. The zakah for what has completed its lunar year of possession will have been paid at its proper time, and the zakah for what has not completed its lunar year of possession will have been hastened. There is nothing wrong with hastening the zakah, and this is what we practice regarding the zakah on salaries. We designate a specific month, such as Ramadan, for example, in which we pay the zakah on everything we have, even if only one month has passed over some of it; because this is more comfortable and purer for the conscience.
Its zakah is not obligatory until a lunar year of possession has passed over it. If he wishes, he can monitor the money that comes to him bit by bit and pay the zakah on each amount when its lunar year of possession is completed, but this is difficult. If he wishes, he can pay the zakah when the lunar year of possession of the first salary is completed, and then continue with that. The zakah for what has completed its lunar year of possession will have been paid at its proper time, and the zakah for what has not completed its lunar year of possession will have been hastened. There is nothing wrong with hastening the zakah, and this is what we practice regarding the zakah on salaries. We designate a specific month, such as Ramadan, for example, in which we pay the zakah on everything we have, even if only one month has passed over some of it; because this is more comfortable and purer for the conscience.