The Creed of Compassion-Islamic Teachings & Answering Doctrinal Misconceptions

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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Issue No. 1626- The obligatory precaution is that if cows, sheep, and camels reach the taxable limit, zakāt should be paid on them, whether they have grazed in the deserts or they have been fed with mowed grass, or the combination of both.

Issue No. 1627- zakāt should be paid on these animals even though one might have purchased or leased a pasture in order for them to graze, which has not been cultivated by anyone or if he bears expenses for grazing them in it. Of course, these expenses can be deducted.

Issue No. 1629- It is not necessary to give the zakāt from the same sheep. It is permissible if some other sheep are given. Also, it is permissible to give money equal to the price of the sheep, cows and camels, and if the animal is more useful for the recipient of zakāt, the obligatory precaution is to give him the animal.

Issue No. 1633- When the number of sheep, cows and camels reaches the taxable limit, payment of zakāt on them becomes obligatory whether all of them are males or all are females, or some of them are males and some are females.