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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
ALMS-GIVING(ZAKAT)
4 What is alms-giving (zakat)?
4 Who are liable to the payment of zakat?
4 What does nisab (quorum or quota) mean? What is its level?
4 What is hawaij al-asliyya (basic needs)?
4 Is it necessary to pay zakat for tools and instruments?
4 Is it possible to make the zakat payment before its due time or date?
4 Can a rich man give his cheque designed for a fixed date to the poor in exchange for zakat payment?
4 Is it possible to make the zakat payment in installments?
4 Is there any specific time for zakat payment?
4 Is there any specific time for zakat payment? Can a zakat payment be made by goods on its own kind?
4 What is the rule in assessing the zakat rate of trading goods?
4 How one should make his/her zakat payment considering the sum due to him/her?
4 Is it permissible to consider the sum due as zakat payment?
4 Is it necessary to pay zakat from the produce of land?
4 Is it permissible to take the expenditures made to obtain produce into consideration while paying ushr (tith/one-tenth)?
4 Who is responsible for the zakat payment of land produce which is obtained by partners?
4 Is it necessary to pay the tithe (ushr) of the produce which is destroyed?
4 Is it permissible to pay the value of the cattle as zakat payment?
4 What is the rule in calculating the zakat payment of the trading goods?
4 Is zakat payable for jewellery?
4 Are the estate agents responsible for paying the zakat of the apartment flats they owned?
4 How do the company partners pay zakat?
4 Are shares or bonds (bought and sold on the stock-exchange) subject to zakat payment?
4 Who are qualified to receive zakat payment?
4 Who are not qualified to receive zakat payment?
4 Is it permissible to give zakat to the charity institutions?
4 Is it permissible to give zakat to those who receive specific income (salary)?
4 How does one, who has different standard of gold, calculate his/her rate of zakat payment?
4 Is it permissible to pay zakat from property obtained illegally?
4 Is money saved for basic needs subjected to zakat payment?
4 Is zakat payment necessary for a rich child who is yet to reach the age of puberty?
4 Is someone who lives together with his/her father liable to zakat payment?
4 Does (income) tax replace zakat?
4 Is it possible to pay zakat via a money-order?
4 Is it permissible to give zakat to one’s step mother, step father and step children?
4 Is it permissible to give zakat to the bride and bridegroom?
4 What should be done if the zakat receiver is a rich one?
4 Is it permissible to give zakat to father-in-law and mother-in-law?
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