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07-31-2012, 02:02 AM
On Which Things Zakat is Compulsory
In Islam the Zakat is divide and determined that which are the one who have to pay Zakat so the Muslim Scholars are agree on the Five categories they established on Zakatable wealth.
Personal Zakatable Wealth: This includes money on hand and in bank accounts, stocks, and money held in retirement and pension accounts.
Business Zakatable Wealth: This is further classified in two categories:
Trading goods that include business lists of goods in stock
Exploited assets such as rented properties and factories.
Agricultural Produce:
Crops from irrigated land, wherein the irrigation system entails costs and labor.
Crops from non-irrigated land watered by rain or natural springs.
Livestock:Animals raised for commercial purposes primarily sheep, goats, cows, and buffaloes.
Treasure Troves (rikāz): This includes valuables that people have buried and left, natural resources, such as oil, precious metals, and gemstones. It can be classified more specifically as:
Hidden windfalls and discovered fortunes.
Oil and mining.
The Constitues Non-Zakatable Wealth
In Islam The Zakat is calculated on the Personal net worth.Exdculding properties and items for Commercial and Personal Fmaily Use.the Property which is ofr the public use is also Non-Zakatbale.See The Following List of wealth that is Zakat Exempt.
Property for Personal, Family, and Commercial Use: This category contains seven primary kinds of wealth:
Food: As stored for consumption by an individual or family.
Clothing: All personal and family apparel.
Residence: The domicile owned and occupied by the owner, including furnishings, utensils, and apparatus used for basic needs and necessity.
Transportation: The means of personal and family transport, such as vehicles used by an owner and family members.
Domestic Animals and Poultry: If used for household food and needs, one may own kinds and quantities in this category as follows (Note: the following numbers of animals for personal use and consumption are based on one Zakāt payer. If more than one Zakāt payer domicile together, or keep their animals and land collectively, the numbers would increase accordingly):
Cows (bovines): 1-29
Sheep, goats (ovine): 1-39
Poultry (chickens etc.): Unlimited (household needs only)
Personal Use (pets, horses, etc.): Unlimited
Tools: Devices, instruments, and equipment used in ones personal business.
Agricultural Land: The land itself, animals, and equipment used in cultivation.
Property in Public Trust: Properties used for mosques, schools, hospitals, orphanages, etc.; those designated for endowment (waqf) for the benefit of the needy; and the funds generated from such propertiesall are non-zakatable (Fiqh az-Zakāt, 338).
Unlawful Wealth: Only lawful assets are worthy of the blessing of Zakāt. Zakāt cannot be calculated on prohibited or unlawful wealth, such as interest income, stolen property, or wealth acquired or earned through unlawful means, such as extortion, forgery, bribery, monopoly, and cheating. Such wealth must be returned in full to its lawful owners. If that is impossible, it is to be given away to the poor in its entirety (Fiqh az-Zakāt, 72).
Who Can Recive Zakat
Zakat is Only Acceptable and only made to the poeple thise need this help.Zakat is the bets sysytem Islam has provided to end poverty every where.
Allah Says In Holy Quran
Indeed, [prescribed] charitable offerings are only [to be given] to the poor and the indigent, and to those who work on [administering] it, and to those whose hearts are to be reconciled, and to [free] those in bondage, and to the debt-ridden, and for the cause of God, and to the wayfarer. [This is] an obligation from God. And God is all-knowing, all-wise. - Al-Tawbah, 9:60
The eight categories of eligible Zakāt recipients follow:
The poor (al-fuqarā)
The needy (al-masākīn)
Zakāt-workers
Those whose hearts are to be reconciled
Those in bondage (slaves and captives)
The debt-ridden
In the cause of God
The wayfarer (the stranded, or one traveling who lacks resources)
How Important Is Local Zakāt Distribution?
GENERAL RULE: Zakāt must be disbursed in the area where it is collected. The poor and needy of a locality where Zakāt is collected have priority over all others as recipients. (Fiqh az-Zakat, 515; for exceptions to this, see next question).
Can Zakat Ever Be Substituted by Other Payments?
The Zakāt-Charity is obligatory not optional; it is worship, not a tax. No matter the country one lives in, and whether ones taxes increase or decrease, there is no substitute for paying Zakat. Zakat is a permanent and continuous Pillar of Islam. No tax can ever replace it. No circumstance can ever preclude its payment whenever it comes due. God, Himself, has made the giving of Zakat to the needy and entitled a sign of loyalty to Him.
Governments may forgive unpaid taxes, but none can absolve one of due Zakat paymentsno matter how far back they accumulatefor Zakat is other peoples money. Muslim scholars, such as the Eleventh-Century Andalusian polymath Ibn Hazm, have said that one who has failed to pay Zakāt shall have ones due Zakāt calculated at its set percentage rate and then multiplied by the years it was not paideven if this consumes all of ones wealth. Other scholars hold that nonpayment of Zakāt forfeits ones right to transact business. Moreover, if a transaction stipulates that a portion of profits shall inure to the benefit of a Zakāt fund, nonpayment of that fund nullifies the contract.
Zakāt is a solemn obligation. The moment it falls due upon ones wealth, that portion no longer belongs to the wealth-holder. The poor and eligible automatically become its rightful owners. Let no believing man or woman feel content with the wealth God has granted them until they have duly distributed the Zakāt due on it to the poor and needy, who are its lawful trustees in the sight of God.
In Islam the Zakat is divide and determined that which are the one who have to pay Zakat so the Muslim Scholars are agree on the Five categories they established on Zakatable wealth.
Personal Zakatable Wealth: This includes money on hand and in bank accounts, stocks, and money held in retirement and pension accounts.
Business Zakatable Wealth: This is further classified in two categories:
Trading goods that include business lists of goods in stock
Exploited assets such as rented properties and factories.
Agricultural Produce:
Crops from irrigated land, wherein the irrigation system entails costs and labor.
Crops from non-irrigated land watered by rain or natural springs.
Livestock:Animals raised for commercial purposes primarily sheep, goats, cows, and buffaloes.
Treasure Troves (rikāz): This includes valuables that people have buried and left, natural resources, such as oil, precious metals, and gemstones. It can be classified more specifically as:
Hidden windfalls and discovered fortunes.
Oil and mining.
The Constitues Non-Zakatable Wealth
In Islam The Zakat is calculated on the Personal net worth.Exdculding properties and items for Commercial and Personal Fmaily Use.the Property which is ofr the public use is also Non-Zakatbale.See The Following List of wealth that is Zakat Exempt.
Property for Personal, Family, and Commercial Use: This category contains seven primary kinds of wealth:
Food: As stored for consumption by an individual or family.
Clothing: All personal and family apparel.
Residence: The domicile owned and occupied by the owner, including furnishings, utensils, and apparatus used for basic needs and necessity.
Transportation: The means of personal and family transport, such as vehicles used by an owner and family members.
Domestic Animals and Poultry: If used for household food and needs, one may own kinds and quantities in this category as follows (Note: the following numbers of animals for personal use and consumption are based on one Zakāt payer. If more than one Zakāt payer domicile together, or keep their animals and land collectively, the numbers would increase accordingly):
Cows (bovines): 1-29
Sheep, goats (ovine): 1-39
Poultry (chickens etc.): Unlimited (household needs only)
Personal Use (pets, horses, etc.): Unlimited
Tools: Devices, instruments, and equipment used in ones personal business.
Agricultural Land: The land itself, animals, and equipment used in cultivation.
Property in Public Trust: Properties used for mosques, schools, hospitals, orphanages, etc.; those designated for endowment (waqf) for the benefit of the needy; and the funds generated from such propertiesall are non-zakatable (Fiqh az-Zakāt, 338).
Unlawful Wealth: Only lawful assets are worthy of the blessing of Zakāt. Zakāt cannot be calculated on prohibited or unlawful wealth, such as interest income, stolen property, or wealth acquired or earned through unlawful means, such as extortion, forgery, bribery, monopoly, and cheating. Such wealth must be returned in full to its lawful owners. If that is impossible, it is to be given away to the poor in its entirety (Fiqh az-Zakāt, 72).
Who Can Recive Zakat
Zakat is Only Acceptable and only made to the poeple thise need this help.Zakat is the bets sysytem Islam has provided to end poverty every where.
Allah Says In Holy Quran
Indeed, [prescribed] charitable offerings are only [to be given] to the poor and the indigent, and to those who work on [administering] it, and to those whose hearts are to be reconciled, and to [free] those in bondage, and to the debt-ridden, and for the cause of God, and to the wayfarer. [This is] an obligation from God. And God is all-knowing, all-wise. - Al-Tawbah, 9:60
The eight categories of eligible Zakāt recipients follow:
The poor (al-fuqarā)
The needy (al-masākīn)
Zakāt-workers
Those whose hearts are to be reconciled
Those in bondage (slaves and captives)
The debt-ridden
In the cause of God
The wayfarer (the stranded, or one traveling who lacks resources)
How Important Is Local Zakāt Distribution?
GENERAL RULE: Zakāt must be disbursed in the area where it is collected. The poor and needy of a locality where Zakāt is collected have priority over all others as recipients. (Fiqh az-Zakat, 515; for exceptions to this, see next question).
Can Zakat Ever Be Substituted by Other Payments?
The Zakāt-Charity is obligatory not optional; it is worship, not a tax. No matter the country one lives in, and whether ones taxes increase or decrease, there is no substitute for paying Zakat. Zakat is a permanent and continuous Pillar of Islam. No tax can ever replace it. No circumstance can ever preclude its payment whenever it comes due. God, Himself, has made the giving of Zakat to the needy and entitled a sign of loyalty to Him.
Governments may forgive unpaid taxes, but none can absolve one of due Zakat paymentsno matter how far back they accumulatefor Zakat is other peoples money. Muslim scholars, such as the Eleventh-Century Andalusian polymath Ibn Hazm, have said that one who has failed to pay Zakāt shall have ones due Zakāt calculated at its set percentage rate and then multiplied by the years it was not paideven if this consumes all of ones wealth. Other scholars hold that nonpayment of Zakāt forfeits ones right to transact business. Moreover, if a transaction stipulates that a portion of profits shall inure to the benefit of a Zakāt fund, nonpayment of that fund nullifies the contract.
Zakāt is a solemn obligation. The moment it falls due upon ones wealth, that portion no longer belongs to the wealth-holder. The poor and eligible automatically become its rightful owners. Let no believing man or woman feel content with the wealth God has granted them until they have duly distributed the Zakāt due on it to the poor and needy, who are its lawful trustees in the sight of God.