If a wife has jewelry that has reached the nisab and she has no money to pay the zakah on it, is it permissible for her husband to pay it on her behalf?
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The questioner : There is a question about zakah. My wife has jewelry, and a lunar year has passed over it. The hawl has completed. Naturally, can I pay it for her, or do we have to take from her jewelry and pay it? She has no source of income.
The Shaykh : If you give it to her and she, in turn, pays the zakah on her jewelry, that is permissible. But if you pay it for her without her possessing what you are paying on her behalf, that is not allowed.
The questioner : One last question, I beg of you, Shaykh. Can we go over the issue again?
The Shaykh : I say: If, for example, her zakah comes to twenty dinars.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : So you give her twenty or thirty dinars, meaning you make it her property.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Then she, in turn, gives the zakah. That is fine. But if you pay the zakah for her directly, you do not do that. Perhaps you understood me?
The questioner : Yes, yes.
The Shaykh: All right.
The questioner : Satan?
The Shaykh : That is not correct. It is not correct.
The questioner : May Allah bless you, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : And may He reward you.
The questioner: Peace be upon you.
The Shaykh : And upon you be peace and the mercy of Allah.
The Shaykh : If you give it to her and she, in turn, pays the zakah on her jewelry, that is permissible. But if you pay it for her without her possessing what you are paying on her behalf, that is not allowed.
The questioner : One last question, I beg of you, Shaykh. Can we go over the issue again?
The Shaykh : I say: If, for example, her zakah comes to twenty dinars.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : So you give her twenty or thirty dinars, meaning you make it her property.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Then she, in turn, gives the zakah. That is fine. But if you pay the zakah for her directly, you do not do that. Perhaps you understood me?
The questioner : Yes, yes.
The Shaykh: All right.
The questioner : Satan?
The Shaykh : That is not correct. It is not correct.
The questioner : May Allah bless you, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : And may He reward you.
The questioner: Peace be upon you.
The Shaykh : And upon you be peace and the mercy of Allah.
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