Giving charity on behalf of someone without telling them
Q: Can I do charity on behalf of someone else without telling him or her?
Zakaat
Using zakaat money to pay for bumping someone's car
Q: A Muslim man bumped into my car. He gave me the round around for 2 months. He eventually agreed to pay the panelbeater. Now he has excluded the vat amount. When I asked him for the vat amount he refused then says he will give me the vat amount as zakaat.
The full invoice of the panelbeater is what is supposed to be paid. He wants to now make it a zakaat thing thinking that I wont take it on hearing that it's zakaat. What is the ruling as the full amount is what had to be paid in the agreement of fixing me car?
Mother getting upset when daughter gives charity to a needy relative
Q: I would like to give charity to my cousin who is really poor but my mum doesn't get along with them and told me not to give it. Is it wrong to give them because it would upset my mum. Plus this is not zakat money but sadaqah.
Zakaat on money received as wedding gifts
Q: Recently my husband and I received a lot of money as gifts for our wedding. My zakaat due date is coming up soon. Since the money was given to both, me and my husband, do I need to take into consideration all of it or half of it when calculating my zakaat?
Zakaat for 25 tola gold
Q: I have about 25 tola gold۔ I want to know the zakaat in rupees.
Can a person who does not earn give sadaqah?
Q: I'm an 18 old boy and I'm dependent on my parents for money. But I get a good amount of money monthly. Whenever I see poor people on the road, I give them money. Recently my friend said that its not permissible to give money as sadaqah when you are not earning money by yourself. Can you please help me with this.
Zakaat on retirement pension
Q: If a pension is released to an employee at the time of retirement and according to statutory law you can only cash in 1/3 of it, while the remaining 2/3 has to be re-invested in a similar fund (money never coming into your hands of the retiree) directly being re-invested on behalf of the retiree to receive a monthly pension from the investment. What are the zakaat implications on the following:
1. Is zakaat payable on the 1/3, if the retiree opt to take the 1/3?
2. Is zakaat payable on the 1/3 if the retiree opt NOT to take the 1/3?
3. Is zakaat payable on the remaining portion of the reinvested amount?
4. Is zakaat payable on the monthly income derived from the re-invested amount?
Zakaat on empty plots
Q: I have query on zakaat for land plots. I live overseas. I don’t own any home in my home country nor overseas. I have a total 9 plots in my home country as per below. Currently, I do not have any intention to sell these plots, unless until in future if I need cash/funds for my kids (a son and a daughter) higher education, marriage, home construction or any emergency. Kindly advise if zakaat is payable on any of these plots (and what percent is payable).
Plot #1 & 2: These are two residential plots. We plan that whenever we go back to our home country, we will construct our home on these two plots.
Plot #3: I have intention to build a home on this and gift it to my daughter on her marriage.
Plot #4 & 5: If I have finance available in future, I will construct homes and will put these for rental income (my retirement income plan). Or if my sister wants to live in one of them, she can take one.
Plot #6 & 7: There are two options in my mind:
(a) To buy land (and construct a home) near my parents in law home (this area is expensive). So I may sell these two plots (6&7) in order to purchase a new land near my parents in law place. If I go for this option, I will not construct a home on the above said plot 1&2. However, possibility of this option (a) is low, as it requires a lot more financing.
(b) If I have finance available in future, I will construct homes and will put these properties for rental income (my retirement income plan).
Plot #8 & 9: A residential and a commercial plot. It is currently new city development in progress and it is expected to be future business hub in next 1 or 2 decades. So in case, if I or my son in future need to move/live in this new city (for job/business purposes), so we can use these plots for ourselves living/business.
Zakaat on property
Q: I work in Saudi Arabia. I purchased one plot in India in 2011 with the intention of constructing a house or selling it later. Another plot I purchased in 2015 with the intention to build a house. Till now I did not start construction on any one of these two plots. Do I have to pay zakaat for these two plots?
Supporting poor women with zakaat money
Q: There are most of our relative women whose husbands don’t fall in the catogray of taking zakat, but they don’t care about these women in terms of their daily needs, continually working them in fields and if they became ill, they don’t take them to hospital. Because of illness, few died and others are suffering. Is it allowed if I support them with zakat.