The Creed of Compassion-Islamic Teachings & Answering Doctrinal Misconceptions

Issue No. 1646- People who are involved in acquiring obligatory knowledge may benefit from zakāt. This rule also applies to judges and the executors of [religious] penalties, etc.

Issue No. 1614- If a one’s crops are of good quality and inferior quality, zakāt for each of the two kinds should be given from its respective kind separately, or pay its value. However, he cannot pay the zakāt of all the crops from the inferior quality. And if he pays the zakāt of all of them from the good quality, it would be better.

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Issue No. 1732- As it was stated earlier, zakāt of fiṭrah cannot, based on obligatory precaution, be spent for anyone other than the poor and the destitute. Similarly, it cannot be used for setting up factories to give their benefits to the needy. However, providing the needy people with a capital enough to enable them to manage their lives is permissible.

Issue No. 1724- If a person has to pay the fiṭrah of a number of persons, it is not necessary for him to pay all from the same commodity. For example, he can give wheat for some of them and barley for others.

Issue No. 1694- One should pay fiṭrah (zakāt of fiṭrah) for all those persons who are his dependents at his house on the eve of Eid al-Fitr, whether they are minors or adults, Muslims or not, their maintenance is obligatory on him or not and whether they are living with him or somewhere else.

Issue No. 1723- Zakāt of fiṭrah cannot be given from a defective commodity. However, if that commodity is reckoned to be the food of the majority of people in that area, there is no problem in it.

Issue No. 1639- If all sheep, cows and camels are healthy and young, he cannot pay their zakāt from unhealthy, defective and old ones. Rather, if some of them are healthy, and others are unhealthy, some are defective and others are not, and some are old and others are young, the obligatory precaution is that he should give as zakāt those animals, which are healthy, without defect and young. However, if all of them are unhealthy, defective and old, he can pay zakāt from amongst them.

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Issue No. 1533- Minerals extracted by an Islamic government are not subject to khums.

Issue No. 1659- If a husband does not pay the expenses of his wife, and the wife is able to get her right from him through the Mujtahid or his representative or someone else, such a woman cannot benefit from zakāt.

Issue No. 1625- With regard to sheep, cows and camels, in addition to the conditions that were stated before for zakāt, it is necessary also that those animals should not be used for labour. In case however, they have been used occasionally for labour but they are not regarded as labour animals, it will be obligatory to pay zakāt on them.