If the nisab decreases before the completion of the lunar year, is zakah due on him?
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The questioner: There is another point, my Shaykh, and it is very important as well.
The Shaykh : Oh!
The questioner: My lunar year has just started now; I have not completed the year, and it has decreased.
The Shaykh: The nisab has decreased.
The questioner: The nisab has decreased.
The Shaykh : Yes!
The questioner: Is all of this finished?
The Shaykh: Yes, there is no longer any zakah.
The questioner: There is no longer any zakah?
The Shaykh: No, because the condition is that the full lunar year must pass over it.
The questioner: Ah, so it starts, after the nisab has gone, it starts.
The Shaykh: If it completes, he does it like this, yes.
The questioner: I am saying, you had ten thousand dinars before the nisab, my Shaykh, two days ago the money you had, which you did not pay zakah on, is gone.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner: In exchange for this, and in exchange for this, when you have a nisab.
The Shaykh: Are you speaking based on your understanding?
The questioner: Based on my understanding and my thinking, in exchange for this, you started having a nisab today, and after a year you pay zakah on all the money you earned, because when you took them and spent this money, you did not pay zakah on it.
Another questioner: The zakah is dropped from you.
Another questioner: He agrees with everything the Shaykh says.
The questioner: I have a point regarding this matter!
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: May Allah reward you with good. Regarding one of the brothers who came from Kuwait, he asked me, meaning two or three days ago, and everyone knows that we trust in Iraq and so on, and we have all experienced this, that after this period passed, the person had no money or such, and the state was an aggressor and unjust, and it looted and plundered and left almost nothing, so the person had no necessities, he had nothing to break his fast with.
The Shaykh: Allah is the Greatest!
The questioner: So the completion of the lunar year came upon him, and his zakah liability was one hundred million, and he was accustomed to paying zakah in Ramadan, every Ramadan, so the first Ramadan came upon him and the country was besieged with the Iraqis, and he had nothing and owned nothing!
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: So he owes no zakah, he owes no zakah for this year, after that, in a year, you may know that some people have had their money returned, so does he wait until Ramadan, for example, the past month ten, in month ten of 1990 his money came, in month ten of 1992 the lunar year is completed, even though the lunar year is measured by the Hijri calendar.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: He is accustomed to paying zakah in Ramadan, does he wait until Ramadan enters, or how should he do it?
The Shaykh: Meaning a year passed during which he was not able to pay the zakah.
The questioner: He did not own anything!
The Shaykh: Immediately, as soon as he owns it, when the money returns to him, he pays the zakah for the year that passed immediately.
The questioner: The zakah that went, like that?
The Shaykh: The one that passed, yes.
The questioner: It is not considered dropped from him?
The Shaykh: No, no, I seek refuge in Allah.
The questioner: The one that was, yes.
The Shaykh: No, it is not considered dropped.
The questioner: As long as the money has returned.
The Shaykh: It is known.
The questioner: Is it permissible, my Shaykh, for him to add the year?
Another questioner: Okay, and the lunar year does not wait for Ramadan, meaning?
The Shaykh: No, it does not wait, the new year waits for Ramadan, but the year that passed, immediately as soon as the money comes, it is paid.
The questioner: Yes, this is what is upon him.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: Meaning if the second Ramadan comes upon him knowingly.
The Shaykh: He missed Ramadan and did not pay zakah, the second Ramadan comes upon him, it is twice.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: Once for what passed, and once for what occurred.
Another questioner: Is he required, with the increase of profits, from the first time he brought them until Ramadan?
The questioner: This is something the person must pay zakah on, also as thanks to Allah.
The Shaykh : That is it.
The questioner: That Allah compensated him with his money.
The Shaykh: Yes, by Allah.
The questioner: And nothing is required of him from the mind.
The Shaykh: But:['Abasa 80:17].
The questioner: Once a person asked the Shaykh about the saying: that it is thanks to Allah, once he asked and said to the Shaykh: that he is a trader with four hundred thousand, a trader in trade with four hundred thousand, is zakah due on him?
Another questioner: Allah is the Greatest!!
The Shaykh: Look, where did it go?!
The Shaykh : Oh!
The questioner: My lunar year has just started now; I have not completed the year, and it has decreased.
The Shaykh: The nisab has decreased.
The questioner: The nisab has decreased.
The Shaykh : Yes!
The questioner: Is all of this finished?
The Shaykh: Yes, there is no longer any zakah.
The questioner: There is no longer any zakah?
The Shaykh: No, because the condition is that the full lunar year must pass over it.
The questioner: Ah, so it starts, after the nisab has gone, it starts.
The Shaykh: If it completes, he does it like this, yes.
The questioner: I am saying, you had ten thousand dinars before the nisab, my Shaykh, two days ago the money you had, which you did not pay zakah on, is gone.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner: In exchange for this, and in exchange for this, when you have a nisab.
The Shaykh: Are you speaking based on your understanding?
The questioner: Based on my understanding and my thinking, in exchange for this, you started having a nisab today, and after a year you pay zakah on all the money you earned, because when you took them and spent this money, you did not pay zakah on it.
Another questioner: The zakah is dropped from you.
Another questioner: He agrees with everything the Shaykh says.
The questioner: I have a point regarding this matter!
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: May Allah reward you with good. Regarding one of the brothers who came from Kuwait, he asked me, meaning two or three days ago, and everyone knows that we trust in Iraq and so on, and we have all experienced this, that after this period passed, the person had no money or such, and the state was an aggressor and unjust, and it looted and plundered and left almost nothing, so the person had no necessities, he had nothing to break his fast with.
The Shaykh: Allah is the Greatest!
The questioner: So the completion of the lunar year came upon him, and his zakah liability was one hundred million, and he was accustomed to paying zakah in Ramadan, every Ramadan, so the first Ramadan came upon him and the country was besieged with the Iraqis, and he had nothing and owned nothing!
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: So he owes no zakah, he owes no zakah for this year, after that, in a year, you may know that some people have had their money returned, so does he wait until Ramadan, for example, the past month ten, in month ten of 1990 his money came, in month ten of 1992 the lunar year is completed, even though the lunar year is measured by the Hijri calendar.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: He is accustomed to paying zakah in Ramadan, does he wait until Ramadan enters, or how should he do it?
The Shaykh: Meaning a year passed during which he was not able to pay the zakah.
The questioner: He did not own anything!
The Shaykh: Immediately, as soon as he owns it, when the money returns to him, he pays the zakah for the year that passed immediately.
The questioner: The zakah that went, like that?
The Shaykh: The one that passed, yes.
The questioner: It is not considered dropped from him?
The Shaykh: No, no, I seek refuge in Allah.
The questioner: The one that was, yes.
The Shaykh: No, it is not considered dropped.
The questioner: As long as the money has returned.
The Shaykh: It is known.
The questioner: Is it permissible, my Shaykh, for him to add the year?
Another questioner: Okay, and the lunar year does not wait for Ramadan, meaning?
The Shaykh: No, it does not wait, the new year waits for Ramadan, but the year that passed, immediately as soon as the money comes, it is paid.
The questioner: Yes, this is what is upon him.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: Meaning if the second Ramadan comes upon him knowingly.
The Shaykh: He missed Ramadan and did not pay zakah, the second Ramadan comes upon him, it is twice.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: Once for what passed, and once for what occurred.
Another questioner: Is he required, with the increase of profits, from the first time he brought them until Ramadan?
The questioner: This is something the person must pay zakah on, also as thanks to Allah.
The Shaykh : That is it.
The questioner: That Allah compensated him with his money.
The Shaykh: Yes, by Allah.
The questioner: And nothing is required of him from the mind.
The Shaykh: But:
Cursed is man; how disbelieving is he.
قُتِلَ الْإِنْسَانُ مَا أَكْفَرَهُThe questioner: Once a person asked the Shaykh about the saying: that it is thanks to Allah, once he asked and said to the Shaykh: that he is a trader with four hundred thousand, a trader in trade with four hundred thousand, is zakah due on him?
Another questioner: Allah is the Greatest!!
The Shaykh: Look, where did it go?!
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