Is there zakah in cars and trucks that operate on routes for transporting goods and the like?
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The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : Does it make a difference between a person who works in buying and selling cars, and another person who works with these cars on the routes? One buys and sells trailers, and the other does not; he uses these trailers on the routes for hire. As for zakah, is there a distinction between these two?
The Shaykh : What do you mean by "uses"?
The questioner : I mean he employs workers, for example, with twenty trailer trucks.
The Shaykh : So he has cars, meaning?
The questioner : He has twenty trailer trucks.
The Shaykh : Does he own them?
The questioner : He owns them, yes.
The Shaykh: All right.
The questioner : Do they operate on the routes for hire?
The Shaykh: All right.
The questioner : And another.
The Shaykh : Hmm.
The questioner : He buys and sells these.
The Shaykh : There is no difference, there is no difference. That is, both are wealthy, and both have zakah due on these trailers. This has already been discussed.
The questioner : The man says in the question that some people distinguish between working in buying and selling cars, considering them as capital from which two and a half percent is paid, whereas the other pays from the profits he earns.
The Shaykh : That is what they say regarding the one who has apartments and rooms to rent out, but this also has no evidence, no evidence at all. The answer is the same.
The questioner : My Shaykh, the basis.
The Shaykh : But it can be said regarding this second person, since he is operating them, he will have money accumulating, he will have money accumulating.
The questioner : Yes, from period to period it increases.
The Shaykh : Ah, this money that accumulates for him at the end of the year, he must pay from all the accumulated amount, even if some of it has not reached the lunar year.
The questioner : At the end of the month?
The Shaykh : To clarify, the first nisab for this man and his like began in the month of Muharram, and it ends at the end of the year with the first entry into the month of Muharram of the following year. But in this year, money came to him during the first lunar year.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : It is not obligatory for him until the lunar year has passed over it. The lunar year passed over it and he paid the zakah, and then the nisab is still with him, correct?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : It is still with him, but in the second year, many nisabs accumulated for him. So if he wanted to do the calculation, perhaps every day, if we do not say every hour, a nisab comes.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : So whatever money comes to him during the second lunar year is added to the money that was in the first year. In the first year, he paid, for example, on one nisab. In the second year, he pays on thousands of nisabs, but the lunar year has not passed over them except for the nisab that had the lunar year pass over it previously.
The questioner : Does he pay zakah on the capital or on the amount he earned from the capital?
The Shaykh : All of it, all the money he has, all the money he has. Let me suppose for you that he has a nisab, then another nisab, and then whatever money comes to him is added to this nisab and he pays from all of it. I am saying that this second person must have money, meaning cash, liquid cash as you say, yes. So he pays from what is available to him without waiting for the lunar year to pass over every nisab. No, the first nisab covers the second nisab which has not had the lunar year pass over it. And by this, first, he is freed from the problem of precise calculations, and second, it is more beneficial for the poor and the needy.
The questioner : Does it make a difference between a person who works in buying and selling cars, and another person who works with these cars on the routes? One buys and sells trailers, and the other does not; he uses these trailers on the routes for hire. As for zakah, is there a distinction between these two?
The Shaykh : What do you mean by "uses"?
The questioner : I mean he employs workers, for example, with twenty trailer trucks.
The Shaykh : So he has cars, meaning?
The questioner : He has twenty trailer trucks.
The Shaykh : Does he own them?
The questioner : He owns them, yes.
The Shaykh: All right.
The questioner : Do they operate on the routes for hire?
The Shaykh: All right.
The questioner : And another.
The Shaykh : Hmm.
The questioner : He buys and sells these.
The Shaykh : There is no difference, there is no difference. That is, both are wealthy, and both have zakah due on these trailers. This has already been discussed.
The questioner : The man says in the question that some people distinguish between working in buying and selling cars, considering them as capital from which two and a half percent is paid, whereas the other pays from the profits he earns.
The Shaykh : That is what they say regarding the one who has apartments and rooms to rent out, but this also has no evidence, no evidence at all. The answer is the same.
The questioner : My Shaykh, the basis.
The Shaykh : But it can be said regarding this second person, since he is operating them, he will have money accumulating, he will have money accumulating.
The questioner : Yes, from period to period it increases.
The Shaykh : Ah, this money that accumulates for him at the end of the year, he must pay from all the accumulated amount, even if some of it has not reached the lunar year.
The questioner : At the end of the month?
The Shaykh : To clarify, the first nisab for this man and his like began in the month of Muharram, and it ends at the end of the year with the first entry into the month of Muharram of the following year. But in this year, money came to him during the first lunar year.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : It is not obligatory for him until the lunar year has passed over it. The lunar year passed over it and he paid the zakah, and then the nisab is still with him, correct?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : It is still with him, but in the second year, many nisabs accumulated for him. So if he wanted to do the calculation, perhaps every day, if we do not say every hour, a nisab comes.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : So whatever money comes to him during the second lunar year is added to the money that was in the first year. In the first year, he paid, for example, on one nisab. In the second year, he pays on thousands of nisabs, but the lunar year has not passed over them except for the nisab that had the lunar year pass over it previously.
The questioner : Does he pay zakah on the capital or on the amount he earned from the capital?
The Shaykh : All of it, all the money he has, all the money he has. Let me suppose for you that he has a nisab, then another nisab, and then whatever money comes to him is added to this nisab and he pays from all of it. I am saying that this second person must have money, meaning cash, liquid cash as you say, yes. So he pays from what is available to him without waiting for the lunar year to pass over every nisab. No, the first nisab covers the second nisab which has not had the lunar year pass over it. And by this, first, he is freed from the problem of precise calculations, and second, it is more beneficial for the poor and the needy.
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