Q: Please advice on the following: If a Darul Uloom collects zakat and their financials indicate that the bulk of the funds are for wages etc. When we asked them about it, they responded that we receive zakat for the students fees from donors. The funds directed to the payments of fees would become lillah. Please advise if this is permissible.
Q: Can I discharge Zakaat of next year in advance to help my younger brother?
Q: A person who is already eligible for giving zakat, if he is a government servant and he takes loan for house building from government and has to pay installments from his monthly pay for this loan. Is zakat wajib on this house building loan?
Q:
1 . If i give zakat to anyone, is it necessary to tell them it is zakat money?
2. Suppose I have to pay zakat Rs 12000, can I give Rs 1000 in each month?
3. One of my friends distributes free rice to the poor, can I give him rice to distribute from the zakat money?
Q: Is it right that i throw meat every day in garden for sadka for birds and they eat every day.
Q: On which amount zakat should be paid "on market value of rental property or on the rent"?
Q: Zakat should be paid on the market value of rental property as stock or on the rent?
Q: If children, grandchildren are adults who live on their own and do not possess the Zakaah Nisaab, can Zakaah be given to them if the parents are not wealthy but possess the Zakaah nisaab?
Q: Is resizing of rings or other jewellery permissible in Islam? If so, does one have to pay zakat based on the original weight of the jewellery or the new reduced weight?
Q: I earn a salary upto 40,000 rupees per month. Sometimes I save the complete salary and sometimes I give part of my salary (20,000 to 30,000) to my family for their shop. Currently I have 60,000 rupees in the bank and I have been working since last year, is zakaat waajid upon me? If yes, how do I calculate the zakaat?