My mother has a laundry business, and I am her legal guardian. Is zakah obligatory on it, given that her lawful income is one thousand five hundred riyals?
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The questioner : A questioner says: “May the Shaykh be respected, my mother has a laundry business, and I am her legal guardian. Is zakah obligatory on it, given that her lawful income is one thousand five hundred riyals? This amount is spent on her needs, and nothing remains from it. If zakah is obligatory on it, how do we handle the past years, since it has been about four years?”
The Shaykh : Yes. These laundries in which a person trades do not have zakah. Likewise, cars prepared for hire do not have zakah, whether they are small or large. Likewise, lands that people rent out for agriculture or other purposes do not have zakah. However, zakah is due on the increase if it remains with the person until the completion of the lunar year. But if everything he receives from this land, or from these cars, or from these laundries is spent by him in his month, or in two or three months, such that the year does not complete for him, then there is no zakah on it. Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes. These laundries in which a person trades do not have zakah. Likewise, cars prepared for hire do not have zakah, whether they are small or large. Likewise, lands that people rent out for agriculture or other purposes do not have zakah. However, zakah is due on the increase if it remains with the person until the completion of the lunar year. But if everything he receives from this land, or from these cars, or from these laundries is spent by him in his month, or in two or three months, such that the year does not complete for him, then there is no zakah on it. Yes.