Q: In the case of this war and crisis in Palestine, if a person wants to give Zakaat in a place like Gaza, will it still be necessary for the person to check if the recipient of the Zakaat is a Muslim or a person can give the Zakaat to anyone in need? Please advise.
Q: A few month back I collected donations for my daughter's eye treatment. People kept sending money. Only one quarter of the collected amount was spent and the remaining amount is in my bank account. Is this money haraam for me?
Q: My zakaat date is on the first of Ramadhaan. At which time will I have to take an account to work out my zakaat, as during the day, I will also be doing trade. Hence, if I buy and sell during the day, will I include the wealth I acquire on that day in my zakaat calculation? Similarly, if I incur debts during the day, will I deduct the debts from my zakaat calculation?
Q: If a person is selling tiles, will he have to include the tile boxes and tile plastic wrappings in his zakaat calculation and pay zakaat on all, as one does not charge the customer for the boxes and the tile plastic wrapping separately?
Q: If a person on his zakaat date gifted a jewellery set to another person and it was also that person's zakaat date, who will pay the zakaat of the jewellery set?
Q: Some organizations take Zakaat money and use it to pay admin fees and madrasah fees. Is this allowed?
Q: If in 2017 and 2018 a person followed the silver nisab but happened to not pay Zakah in those years despite meeting the silver Nisaab then at a later point (maybe 2018 onwards) he moved to the gold nisaab and when he did calculation for past Zakah, he used the gold nisaab retroactively, even for those years where he followed silver nisaab but that meant for those years he did not owe Zakah according to gold nisaab. Would he be required to still pay Zakah for those two years because at the time of those two years he was following silver nisaab?
Q: I contacted a company in China to manufacture goods for me. After placing the order, they will have to make the goods for me and thereafter ship it to South Africa. If my zakaat date comes in between and I have not yet received the goods, will I include the value of these goods in my zakaat calculation?
Q: I sell clothing to chain stores as well as other traders. The chain stores mark up their clothing with a very high markup, making 300% to 400% profit. Other traders' mark up is not so high. The chain stores (e.g. Pep or Ackermans) have many 100 of branches in the country compared to the other traders that I sell to. Hence, the total number of traders will be 60 or 70 compared to the number of chain store branches in the country.
When calculating zakaat, the market value is considered. However, the normal traders sell it at R150 and those chains stores sell it at R300. Will one consider R150 as the market value or R300?
If the market value is considered according to the value of the chain stores, it will be quite difficult for the normal traders who only sell it at R150.
Q: I need to pay zakaat. Can I purchase a flat and give my sister as she does not own a house and she is living on rent with not good income, even her husband is not earning enough?