Zakat: A Comprehensive SeekersGuidance Reader
Zakat forms the fifth chapter of Imam Al-Ghazali’s seminal work, the Ihya, which is widely regarded as the greatest work on Islamic spirituality in the world.
Here, we share some of the best SeekersGuidance resources available on this subject plus video recordings from SeekersGuidance Toronto, where live sessions will be held everyday this Ramadan.
- What is the Definition of Zakat?
- Zakat: How to Calculate & Whom to Give
- How Do I Determine How Much Zakat I Owe?
- Bringing Barakah Into Your Wealth and Life
- Zakat: Giving Locally vs. Abroad
- The Wife’s Responsibility to Pay Zakat
- Is Advance Payment of Zakat Permissible in the Shafi’i School?
- Can Zakat Money Be Given Out As a Loan?
- Why It Is not Valid To Forgive a Debt Someone Owes You and To Deem It As Zakat?
- Giving Zakat to Help Pay Off Debts
- What Are the Conditions of Paying Zakat? [Shafi’i School]
- When Do I Have to Pay My Zakat?
- Can I Set My Own Zakat Due Date?
- Zakat Questions: Resetting Start Date, Miscalculations, and Debt
- Is Zakat Due When My Mortgage is Greater Than My Assets?
- Calculating Zakat With Long Term Debts
- Paying Zakat vs. Paying Off a Debt
- At What Age Does Zakat Become Due?
- Calculating Zakat and Going on Hajj with a Student Loan
- Can a Person’s Zakat Date Change? Is Zakat Due Before Puberty?
- Is Zakat Due on the Same Wealth Each Year?
- Do I Have to Pay Zakat if I Have a High Income But I Use All of My Income To Pay Off Debts?
- How to Calculate Zakat When Paying or Receiving Loan Payments?
- Can I Pay My Zakat to Sponsor a Child?
- Can I Give Zakat to My Brothers?
- Can I Give Zakat to Immediate Relatives or a Mosque?
- Is it Permissible To Give my Zakat to an Islamic School?
- Can We Host an Iftar and Distribute Food to Laborers Using Zakat Money?
- Can I Pay My Zakat to Someone Who Owns a House?
- Can I Give My Zakat to Somebody Who Will Use It to Pay off an Interest-Bearing Loan?
- How Do I Pay Zakat On Money I Lent Out?
- Is Zakat Due on Savings for Which Zakat was Paid the Previous Year?
- Can Give Zakat to Someone Who Is Surviving but not Thriving
- Can I Follow the Zakatable Minimum (Nisab) of Gold to Pay My Zakat?
- Zakat on Gold of Different Carats
- How Can I Pay My Zakat on Gold?
- What If I Can’t Afford to Pay the Zakat on My Gold?
- Paying Zakat on Gold, Loans, and Gifts
- Do We Pay Zakat on Gold If We Don’t Own the Nisab?
- Do I Have to Pay Zakat on Gold That I Have Bought With a Credit Card?
- How do I Calculate Zakat on Gold and Silver When the Value Has Increased Since I purchased it?
- Can Students of Islamic Knowledge Be Recipients of Zakat?
- The Twofold Virtue of Giving Charity to One’s Family
- Is It Permissible to Give My Zakat to My Daughter?
- Can My Spouse Give Her Zakat to My Parents?
- Can I Pay My Zakat to My Father?
- Determining an Eligible Zakat Recipient, and Zakat on a Pension Plan
- Zakat When Opting Out on a Pension Scheme
- Is It Permissible for My Mother to Finance My Studies Through Her Zakat?
- Should I Pay Zakat on a Land?
- When Do I Pay Zakat on Tax Return Money?
- Paying Zakat on a Rental Property
- Home Ownership, Real Estate Investment, and Zakat
- What Are the Rulings for Zakat on Agricultural Produce?
- Rulings Related to Zakat on Shares
- How is Zakat Determined for Stocks?
- Zakat on Land and Determining Market Value
- Years of Past Due Zakat, and Zakat on Non-Selling or Damaged Goods
- How to Pay Zakat on Cash Investments? (Shafi’i)
