The Amount of Zakah and Its Recipients

Question:
This is a letter we received from Iraq, and the sender requests to hear the answer. He says: The name is (A. K.) from Iraq. He asks: When does zakah become due? And what is the zakah on Iraqi dinars if the amount is two thousand and two hundred Iraqi dinars?

Answer:
Zakah is like other things; Iraq is like other places. Whenever one accumulates wealth that reaches the nisab, whether it is Iraqi dinars or anything else, the zakah is one-quarter of one-tenth. So in two thousand, it is fifty; in one thousand, it is twenty-five. One-quarter of one-tenth is the zakah. If he has one hundred thousand dinars, the one-quarter of one-tenth is two thousand and five hundred. In one million, it is twenty-five thousand, and so on.
The point is: one-quarter of one-tenth of the money a person owns, whether it is Iraqi, Jordanian, English, American, or otherwise. One-quarter of one-tenth of gold and silver, yes, and these paper currencies, yes.

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The Shaykh: ...and it is given to the one who is entitled to it. The one who is entitled to zakah is given to the poor, the poor and the needy among Muslims, and the person who has a debt and is unable to pay it, the indebted person, is given what he needs to settle his debt. And the muallif, the leader of the tribe, the prominent people, if they are poor, or their Islam is weak, or there is fear of apostasy for them, they are given what unites them, so that their faith is strengthened and their Islam is strengthened. The leaders of the tribes, the prominent people, whose giving is expected to strengthen their faith, strengthen their Islam, and their cooperation with the Muslims, yes.