Ruling on advancing zakah and the profit of the zakat-eligible wealth
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Q142: The questioner says: When the lunar year of possession (hawl) for me, for example, completes in Sha'ban, and I want to advance the zakah in Rajab, do I also include the month of Sha'ban in the zakah calculation, or do I calculate what I possess up to the month of Rajab?
A142: If you advance the zakah by a month or more, there is no harm in doing so when there is a need. It is permissible to advance the zakah by up to two lunar years or less; there is no objection to that. Whatever new wealth appears before the lunar year of possession completes for it, there is no zakah due on it. And if what occurred after you paid the zakah was a profit, and it was a profit on the wealth for which you paid zakah, then the profit follows the principal, so you must pay zakah on it; you must give out its zakah.
A142: If you advance the zakah by a month or more, there is no harm in doing so when there is a need. It is permissible to advance the zakah by up to two lunar years or less; there is no objection to that. Whatever new wealth appears before the lunar year of possession completes for it, there is no zakah due on it. And if what occurred after you paid the zakah was a profit, and it was a profit on the wealth for which you paid zakah, then the profit follows the principal, so you must pay zakah on it; you must give out its zakah.
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