Issue No. 1602- If wheat, barley, dates, and grapes are irrigated with rain water, Qanats, river, dam, or benefit from the moisture of the land, the zakāt due on them is 10% and if they are watered with deep, semi deep or shallow well water or with bucket, etc., the zakāt payable on them is 5%.
Issue No. 1607- One can deduct the expenses incurred for farming, such as the value of the seeds, from the produce, and pay zakāt on the remainder, although the recommended precaution is that he doesn’t deduct.
Issue No. 1608- If a person buys a vine or a date-palm tree, its value should not be included in the expenses for sure. If one buys dates or grapes before they are ripe, as an obligatory precaution, he should not deduct its value from the harvest either. Also, the money he pays for purchasing the land is not a part of the expenses.
Issue No. 1609- If a person owns wheat, barley, palm-dates and grapes in different cities where the time of ripening of crops and fruits is different from one another and all of them are considered to be the product of one and the same year, and if the product which ripens first reaches the taxable limit, he should pay zakāt on it at the time of its ripening and should pay zakāt on the remaining products when they become available. And if the thing which ripens first does not reach the taxable limit, he should wait until the other fruits/grains ripen. Hence, if they reach the taxable limit collectively, payment of zakāt on them is obligatory.
Issue No. 1610- If a date palm or vine bears fruit twice in a year, and when combined they reach the taxable limit, zakāt should be paid on it, as an obligatory precaution.
Issue No. 1611- If zakāt of dates or raisins is obligatory on a person, he cannot pay it in the form of green dates or grapes. However, he can sell the green dates or grapes to a needy person, and consider his debt as zakāt. If he is going to sell green dates or grapes before they are dried up, he can pay their zakāt from themselves.
Issue No. 1612- If a person dies with a debt, and has a property on which zakāt has become due, it is necessary that in the first instance, the entire zakāt should be paid out from that property, and thereafter pay his debt. This ruling is applicable only when the property on which zakāt is due is available.
Issue No. 1615- There are two taxable limits of gold:The first taxable limit is 20 mithqāls (equal to 69.12 grams). If gold reaches this quantity and other requisite conditions are also present, then one should pay one-fortieth of it (2.5 %) as zakāt, and if it does not reach this quantity, no zakāt would be payable on it.The second taxable limit is four mithqāls (13.82 gms). In other words, if four mithqāls are added to 20 mithqāls, one should pay the zakāt of 24 mithqāls at the rate of 2.5%, and if less than four mithqāls are added, then, only the zakāt of 20 mithqāls will be obligatory, and it will not be obligatory to pay zakāt on the additional quantity. The same rule applies when further additions take place in the quantity of gold, i.e., if a further increase of four mithqāls takes place zakāt should be paid on the entire quantity, and if the increase is less than that, no zakāt is due on the additional quantity.
Issue No. 1616- Silver also has two taxable limits:The first taxable limit is 140 mithqāls (equal to 483.84 gms). When the quantity of silver reaches that limit, and other conditions are also present, one should pay one-fortieth (2.5%) of it as zakāt, and if the quantity of silver does not reach the aforesaid limit, it is not obligatory to pay zakāt on it.The second taxable limit of silver is when there is an addition of 28 mithqāls (equal to 96.76 gms). Therefore if an addition of 28 mithqāls takes place to 140 mithqāls, the person concerned should pay zakāt on 168 mithqāls, and if the addition is less than 28 mithqāls, he should pay zakāt on 140 mithqāls only and no zakāt is payable on the additional quantity. The same rule applies as and when further additions take place in the quantity of silver. However, in order for the calculation to be easy, if a person gives 2.5% of the gold or silver, which he possesses, he has paid the zakāt, which was obligatory on him, and sometimes he pays even more than the obligatory quantity.
Issue No. 1619- The recommended precaution is to pay zakāt on other currencies, like paper money, if other conditions are present in them.
Issue No. 1621- Another condition is that one should possess the taxable limit of gold or silver for a whole year; if he enters the twelfth month, he should, as an obligatory precaution, pay its zakāt. In case, he sells it before the end of the eleventh month or if it falls below the taxable limit, or if it is not at his disposal, it is not obligatory for him to pay zakāt. The same goes if he exchanges it with something else or if he melts it. However, if he changes some gold and silver coins with other gold and silver coins, he should, as an obligatory precaution, pay its zakāt.
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