Is it permissible if we combine all the merchandise and profits and pay the zakah?
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The questioner : My master, if I come at the end of the year, as is customary, and I distribute, if I come at the end of every year, we divide the capital, meaning we will do an inventory and value the merchandise and value everything and value the profits, and if we come to the total amount and calculate the zakah on it, is this permissible?
The Shaykh : What did I tell you at that time?
The questioner : I understood the first lesson, but just to make it simple for me, if I come to all this merchandise here, I am looking for a way so that I do not pay deficient zakah.
The Shaykh : I wonder, to make it simple for you, which did we tell you is simpler, the last one or the first one?
The questioner : I just want you to understand my point of view or the way I am speaking, because most of the time, this money is yours, you have money owed to you and you have money owed by you - and peace and mercy of Allah be upon you -.
The Shaykh : And upon you be peace, welcome, may Allah preserve you. Welcome Abu Anas, and upon you be peace, how are you? Welcome, and upon you be peace, welcome, please. Welcome, welcome, welcome, and upon you be peace, welcome, please. Welcome, please, may Allah preserve you.
The questioner : Pray for us for blessings, we got married for the second time.
The Shaykh : What Allah willed, with the intention of a third.
The questioner : Allah is Generous
The Shaykh : Allah is Generous
The questioner : Pray for us, O Shaykh, today we signed the marriage contract.
The Shaykh : What Allah willed, the rope is the dragger.
The questioner : Even though our Shaykh does not advise us to have multiple wives.
The Shaykh : We do not advise multiple wives with justice.
The questioner : If our Shaykh does not advise, who wants to advise?
The Shaykh : That is enough, let it be, may Allah guide our wives, our children, and our descendants.
The questioner : O Shaykh, I understood all the speech you told me, but what I intend is that we will always have debts, meaning we will always have money owed to us and money owed by us, so it is difficult to value it at one hundred percent, meaning it is difficult for me to value it at one hundred percent, so I want to take the method, like how we do an inventory, of course without comparison, based on income tax or accounting or in this way, if we come to combine the capital plus the profits all together, and what happens regarding the cars for the company, is it paid from them or not paid from them?
The Shaykh : I have answered you about that.
The questioner : Not for the machines, the cars.
The Shaykh : The cars you work on, like the machines.
The questioner : The same thing.
The Shaykh : Yes, there is no zakah on them.
The questioner : And houses and such things.
The Shaykh : But now, stay with the issue, no offense, do not mix Sha'ban with Ramadan, I want to see what you think is the easy issue, what is the easy one?
The questioner : For me, it is easy that I come at the end of every year, I inventory the profits I have plus the capital, and I calculate the zakah on it, of course it increases, it does not decrease, there is no problem.
The Shaykh : Okay, what did we tell you? I want to see the difference, meaning between what we said.
The questioner : You told me to calculate from the year, every lunar year, the cash you have plus the checks you have, and you can pay the zakah on them.
The Shaykh : Where is the difficulty here?
The questioner : Correct, my master, but in return, you will also have checks, meaning you will have checks owed to you and checks owed by you, meaning there will be some for you and some against you at the same time.
The Shaykh : Okay, my brother, everything is in its account, may Allah bless you, now, as a merchant, do you not want to know what is yours and what is against you?
The questioner : I know.
The Shaykh : Okay, if it is known to you, this is not a problem, so what is yours, you have to calculate what is yours as we said in the previous detail, a live debt, correct?
The questioner : Yes, my master.
The Shaykh : And what is against you, you deduct it and pay it to its owner. I have not yet seen the ease you are seeking, and I do not think you will find ease greater than what the Shari'ah has made easy, because the money existing with you, its value is known, and the completion of the lunar year on one nisab, this is the easiest thing that an ordinary person can know, let alone a merchant, so there is no problem here. Then you are adding to the capital you have the profits, we have exempted you from the profits, do you think this is easier or what you are combining is easier?
The questioner : What you said is easier, my master.
The Shaykh : Okay, if so.
The questioner : I mean that if the profits are added.
The Shaykh : Why do you add them? You, if Allah wills, no offense, you are giving all your money in the path of Allah, you are asking about the obligatory and the fard upon you, is that not so?
The questioner : Yes, my master.
The Shaykh : And now, the door of charity in all its forms is open, all the channels, so you are free to give charity with all your money, with half your money, but the question is, is it obligatory for you to calculate the profit, or do we say, you have something in the box that has completed the lunar year and something that has not completed the lunar year, combine them together and pay the zakah on them. The trade goods you have, you are not obligated to calculate their value, do you think calculating how much their value is is easier, or without calculating, you take something from it for a poor person, for a needy person, and so on, which is easier?
The questioner : Without calculating, of course.
The Shaykh : Yes, if I do not understand you, how do you understand that ease is in difficulty?
The questioner : I mean that the profits do not come out, meaning the profits are not necessary to come out.
The Shaykh : You want me to add them, and we say, profits, when they become liquid or become merchandise, then in all its accounts, it has become liquid, it is combined with what you have. If it has not been converted to trade goods, trade goods, we know what their ruling is, the issue is very clear.
The Shaykh : What did I tell you at that time?
The questioner : I understood the first lesson, but just to make it simple for me, if I come to all this merchandise here, I am looking for a way so that I do not pay deficient zakah.
The Shaykh : I wonder, to make it simple for you, which did we tell you is simpler, the last one or the first one?
The questioner : I just want you to understand my point of view or the way I am speaking, because most of the time, this money is yours, you have money owed to you and you have money owed by you - and peace and mercy of Allah be upon you -.
The Shaykh : And upon you be peace, welcome, may Allah preserve you. Welcome Abu Anas, and upon you be peace, how are you? Welcome, and upon you be peace, welcome, please. Welcome, welcome, welcome, and upon you be peace, welcome, please. Welcome, please, may Allah preserve you.
The questioner : Pray for us for blessings, we got married for the second time.
The Shaykh : What Allah willed, with the intention of a third.
The questioner : Allah is Generous
The Shaykh : Allah is Generous
The questioner : Pray for us, O Shaykh, today we signed the marriage contract.
The Shaykh : What Allah willed, the rope is the dragger.
The questioner : Even though our Shaykh does not advise us to have multiple wives.
The Shaykh : We do not advise multiple wives with justice.
The questioner : If our Shaykh does not advise, who wants to advise?
The Shaykh : That is enough, let it be, may Allah guide our wives, our children, and our descendants.
The questioner : O Shaykh, I understood all the speech you told me, but what I intend is that we will always have debts, meaning we will always have money owed to us and money owed by us, so it is difficult to value it at one hundred percent, meaning it is difficult for me to value it at one hundred percent, so I want to take the method, like how we do an inventory, of course without comparison, based on income tax or accounting or in this way, if we come to combine the capital plus the profits all together, and what happens regarding the cars for the company, is it paid from them or not paid from them?
The Shaykh : I have answered you about that.
The questioner : Not for the machines, the cars.
The Shaykh : The cars you work on, like the machines.
The questioner : The same thing.
The Shaykh : Yes, there is no zakah on them.
The questioner : And houses and such things.
The Shaykh : But now, stay with the issue, no offense, do not mix Sha'ban with Ramadan, I want to see what you think is the easy issue, what is the easy one?
The questioner : For me, it is easy that I come at the end of every year, I inventory the profits I have plus the capital, and I calculate the zakah on it, of course it increases, it does not decrease, there is no problem.
The Shaykh : Okay, what did we tell you? I want to see the difference, meaning between what we said.
The questioner : You told me to calculate from the year, every lunar year, the cash you have plus the checks you have, and you can pay the zakah on them.
The Shaykh : Where is the difficulty here?
The questioner : Correct, my master, but in return, you will also have checks, meaning you will have checks owed to you and checks owed by you, meaning there will be some for you and some against you at the same time.
The Shaykh : Okay, my brother, everything is in its account, may Allah bless you, now, as a merchant, do you not want to know what is yours and what is against you?
The questioner : I know.
The Shaykh : Okay, if it is known to you, this is not a problem, so what is yours, you have to calculate what is yours as we said in the previous detail, a live debt, correct?
The questioner : Yes, my master.
The Shaykh : And what is against you, you deduct it and pay it to its owner. I have not yet seen the ease you are seeking, and I do not think you will find ease greater than what the Shari'ah has made easy, because the money existing with you, its value is known, and the completion of the lunar year on one nisab, this is the easiest thing that an ordinary person can know, let alone a merchant, so there is no problem here. Then you are adding to the capital you have the profits, we have exempted you from the profits, do you think this is easier or what you are combining is easier?
The questioner : What you said is easier, my master.
The Shaykh : Okay, if so.
The questioner : I mean that if the profits are added.
The Shaykh : Why do you add them? You, if Allah wills, no offense, you are giving all your money in the path of Allah, you are asking about the obligatory and the fard upon you, is that not so?
The questioner : Yes, my master.
The Shaykh : And now, the door of charity in all its forms is open, all the channels, so you are free to give charity with all your money, with half your money, but the question is, is it obligatory for you to calculate the profit, or do we say, you have something in the box that has completed the lunar year and something that has not completed the lunar year, combine them together and pay the zakah on them. The trade goods you have, you are not obligated to calculate their value, do you think calculating how much their value is is easier, or without calculating, you take something from it for a poor person, for a needy person, and so on, which is easier?
The questioner : Without calculating, of course.
The Shaykh : Yes, if I do not understand you, how do you understand that ease is in difficulty?
The questioner : I mean that the profits do not come out, meaning the profits are not necessary to come out.
The Shaykh : You want me to add them, and we say, profits, when they become liquid or become merchandise, then in all its accounts, it has become liquid, it is combined with what you have. If it has not been converted to trade goods, trade goods, we know what their ruling is, the issue is very clear.
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