The Time for Paying Zakah for One Who Owns the Nisab
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Question:
If I have a sum of fifteen thousand Saudi riyals in the month of Muharram, in the year 1408, and the following year, 1409, has entered, meaning this sum has completed a year without me touching any of it, how do we pay its zakah? And when is it obligatory to pay it?
Answer:
As long as you owned it in Muharram, the zakah is due on it in Muharram, once the year has completed, even if you did not deal with it, even if it is in a box or in the bank, kept as a trust. You must pay its zakah, which is a quarter of a tenth; twenty-five for every thousand, once the lunar year has completed. If this money came to you as a gift or as an inheritance, then once the lunar year has passed over it and the year is complete, you pay its zakah.
However, if this money is the price of goods prepared for sale, the lunar year is the lunar year of the goods you prepared for sale. Once the year is complete, you pay zakah on the money.
So the result is: zakah becomes obligatory on money, on currency, once the lunar year has completed over it, and on goods prepared for sale: cars, or furniture, or utensils, or otherwise. You must pay zakah on them once their lunar year has completed, according to their value.
The presenter: Which are the commodities of trade.
The Shaykh: And they are the commodities of trade. You look at their value at the end of the lunar year. If their value is, for example, ten thousand, you pay zakah on ten thousand. If their value is one hundred thousand, you pay zakah on one hundred thousand, at the end of the lunar year. And this is what is obligatory for you and for those like you. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you with good. Also, regarding zakah: when I went on my annual leave in February of 1988, I opened an account in one of the Islamic banks in Sudan and deposited a sum of twenty thousand eight hundred Sudanese pounds. In the same year, I withdrew nine thousand pounds, leaving eleven thousand eight hundred pounds until the beginning of the new year, 1989. What is the method for paying zakah on this amount? And when is it obligatory to pay it?
The Shaykh: You must pay the zakah from the time the lunar year has completed. The amount you withdrew before the completion of the lunar year has no zakah on it, but for the amount on which the lunar year has completed after you owned this money, you must pay its zakah, which is a quarter of a tenth; twenty-five for every thousand. There is no zakah on money until the lunar year has passed over it, meaning: currency and its like, such as commodities of trade, and camels, cattle, and sheep that are grazing and roaming. None of these have zakah except when the year is complete. Whenever the year is complete, zakah becomes obligatory.
As for grains and fruits, zakah becomes obligatory on them when they are ripe and mature. For grains, when they are ripe and hardened, then harvested, and cared for and cleaned, zakah becomes obligatory on them after they are threshed and cleared of the stalks and the like, until they are purified, and their zakah is paid.
And so it is with fruits, such as dates and grapes. You pay zakah on them when they are ripe and mature, and placed in the threshing floor, meaning in the drying area, in the place where they are dried. Then you pay their zakah when they reach the nisab, five wasqs. If they are watered by machines and the like, it is half a tenth; fifty for every thousand, fifty for every thousand in weight or kilograms, and one hundred for every two thousand, half a tenth. If they are watered by rain and flowing rivers, it is a tenth; one hundred for every thousand, and two hundred for every two thousand, and so on. This is how the Sunnah came from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you with good.
If I have a sum of fifteen thousand Saudi riyals in the month of Muharram, in the year 1408, and the following year, 1409, has entered, meaning this sum has completed a year without me touching any of it, how do we pay its zakah? And when is it obligatory to pay it?
Answer:
As long as you owned it in Muharram, the zakah is due on it in Muharram, once the year has completed, even if you did not deal with it, even if it is in a box or in the bank, kept as a trust. You must pay its zakah, which is a quarter of a tenth; twenty-five for every thousand, once the lunar year has completed. If this money came to you as a gift or as an inheritance, then once the lunar year has passed over it and the year is complete, you pay its zakah.
However, if this money is the price of goods prepared for sale, the lunar year is the lunar year of the goods you prepared for sale. Once the year is complete, you pay zakah on the money.
So the result is: zakah becomes obligatory on money, on currency, once the lunar year has completed over it, and on goods prepared for sale: cars, or furniture, or utensils, or otherwise. You must pay zakah on them once their lunar year has completed, according to their value.
The presenter: Which are the commodities of trade.
The Shaykh: And they are the commodities of trade. You look at their value at the end of the lunar year. If their value is, for example, ten thousand, you pay zakah on ten thousand. If their value is one hundred thousand, you pay zakah on one hundred thousand, at the end of the lunar year. And this is what is obligatory for you and for those like you. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you with good. Also, regarding zakah: when I went on my annual leave in February of 1988, I opened an account in one of the Islamic banks in Sudan and deposited a sum of twenty thousand eight hundred Sudanese pounds. In the same year, I withdrew nine thousand pounds, leaving eleven thousand eight hundred pounds until the beginning of the new year, 1989. What is the method for paying zakah on this amount? And when is it obligatory to pay it?
The Shaykh: You must pay the zakah from the time the lunar year has completed. The amount you withdrew before the completion of the lunar year has no zakah on it, but for the amount on which the lunar year has completed after you owned this money, you must pay its zakah, which is a quarter of a tenth; twenty-five for every thousand. There is no zakah on money until the lunar year has passed over it, meaning: currency and its like, such as commodities of trade, and camels, cattle, and sheep that are grazing and roaming. None of these have zakah except when the year is complete. Whenever the year is complete, zakah becomes obligatory.
As for grains and fruits, zakah becomes obligatory on them when they are ripe and mature. For grains, when they are ripe and hardened, then harvested, and cared for and cleaned, zakah becomes obligatory on them after they are threshed and cleared of the stalks and the like, until they are purified, and their zakah is paid.
And so it is with fruits, such as dates and grapes. You pay zakah on them when they are ripe and mature, and placed in the threshing floor, meaning in the drying area, in the place where they are dried. Then you pay their zakah when they reach the nisab, five wasqs. If they are watered by machines and the like, it is half a tenth; fifty for every thousand, fifty for every thousand in weight or kilograms, and one hundred for every two thousand, half a tenth. If they are watered by rain and flowing rivers, it is a tenth; one hundred for every thousand, and two hundred for every two thousand, and so on. This is how the Sunnah came from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you with good.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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