How is the value of merchandise in trade determined for the purpose of paying its zakah? Is it valued at the selling price or the purchase price?
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The questioner : All right, how do you value the merchandise, at the selling price or at the cost price?
The Shaykh : You have returned to the first school of thought.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : We are not concerned with how you value it!
The questioner : Yes, yes.
The Shaykh : At whatever price satisfies his conscience.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : But.
The Shaykh : You have returned to the first school of thought.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : We are not concerned with how you value it!
The questioner : Yes, yes.
The Shaykh : At whatever price satisfies his conscience.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : But.
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