Categories : FIQH OF ZAKAT IN DETAIL

Zakat, with its specific nisab (required minimum wealth) and conditions, was decreed compulsory after the decree of fasting, in the second year of the Hijra, during the Medinan Period. Scores of verses pronounce, unambiguously, the obligation of zakat. Among these are the following ex

It is a known fact that because the main area of religious focus during the Meccan period was the elucidation of the fundamental articles of faith, the jurisdictional decrees of Islam were predominantly made obligatory in the Medina Period. As an example of this, though zakat was touc

WHICH POSSESSIONS ARE SUBJECT TO ZAKAT? The issue of trying to determine how much zakat needs to be spared from a certain item, and leveling what proportion, are all predicated upon the Qur’an and Sunna. Despite the Qur’an’s  ardent  emphasis  on zakat,  it  has no specific pronouncem

WHO IS LIABLE FOR ZAKAT? Before collecting zakat from the obliged, it is essential to first ascertain who these individuals are. This requires certain prerequisites, like the knowledge of Islam, freedom, wealth, sanity, maturity—in addition to the requirements concerning wealth, namel

CAN ZAKAT BE PAID BY WAY OF ESTIMATION? Islam permanently constructs its verdicts on robust foundations, thus guessing or estimating the  amount  of  due zakat, a method prevalently resorted to in agriculture, is not desirable, simply because more often than not, the ultimate result d

WHO ARE THE RECIPIENTS OF ZAKAT? he Qur’an has explicitly delineated the recipients of zakat with the verse, “Alms are only for the poor and the needy, and those who collect them and for those whose hearts are to be reconciled, and for the ransom of captives and debtors and for the wa

Though comprising several meanings such as  substitution, disaster, catastrophe and misfortune, nawaib is the name given to the gains acquired in addition to zakat during extraordinary circumstances such as the dispatch of troops, maintaining national security and s o on. As the desig

Ushr means “one-tenth;” thus every single fraction of ten is called “ushr.”21 “They have not been able to reach even one tenth of what We have given”22 alludes to the shortcomings of the Meccan polytheists in their incapability of realizing their so-called power. As an Islamic concept