Fatwas Archive

Question: Is it permissible to pay the monetary value (instead of the produce itself) for the zakat of vegetables? If you say it is permissible, what is your response to one who says: asserting the permissibility of that comes close...

Question: A man has shops that he rents out, but their annual rent does not reach the amount of zakat, which is one quarter of one-tenth (2.5%) of the value of the shops. What is the ruling in that?

Question: Concerning the zakat of income-generating assets (al-mustaghallāt)… etc.?

Question: If a woman was unaware of the obligation of zakāh on the dowry and on jewelry, then after several years was informed of the obligation—what is required of her?

Question: A woman received her dowry after several years; how many years of zakāh are due upon her?

Question: A man has with his brother a sum of money as a debt. He wants to release his brother from that debt—so how should he handle the zakāh for the past years? Both men are poor, though each still...

Question: A man had an obligatory zakāh amount mixed with a voluntary charity, and he is the agent responsible for distributing all of it. The obligatory portion is no longer distinguishable from the voluntary. What should he do?

Question: Some tribal shaykhs may possess power and authority, and they take the zakāh of people’s wealth by force and threats. It appears that they do not place it in its proper channels; rather, we strongly suspect they consume it....

He, Exalted is He, says: “And He is the One Who produces trellised and untrellised gardens, date palms and crops of different kinds of food, and olives and pomegranates—similar and dissimilar. Eat of its fruit when it ripens, and give...

Question: A man—on whom the signs of piety and righteousness appear—sought a ruling, saying: he is a trustworthy agent for a people from whom zakāh is collected for the state. If he gives up this post, someone else will replace...