Zakaat

Q: Can we give our zakaat money to our grand father or grand mother?

Q: I am currently employed working on commission earning a very decent salary. Due to to certain mismanagement of my salary I find myself in debt (3 times my salary) owing rent, Edgars etc. Is it permissible to accept zakaat money (once off) to help settle these debts.

Q:

1. Is it permissible to give my zakaah funds to my brother because he has lost his job and cannot make "ends meat"? (He does not have the zakaat nisaab).

2. If it is not permissible to give my brother, then , can I give it to his wife who also falls in the category of a zakaah recipient?

Q: If I give constant charity (10 times my zakaat amount) and pray to Allah to accept as my zakaat first then the rest as sadqa because He knows it all. I forget my zakat hisaab. Can I do that?

Q: If a person has a certain amount of cash only, has he to base his calculation for determining the nisaab based on existing rate of silver or gold? The reason is there is a vast difference in the market rate of a gram of silver and a gram of gold. Please advise. Jazakalkah.

Q: What is the Islamic ruling regarding for giving donation to send the dead body from abroad to the home land of the dead person (if the person is a muslim)? Can zakat be given for this purpose? Will it be considered kaar-e-khair?

Q: Is zakaat compulsory on the capital amount in a mudhaarabah transaction?

Q: I have two small flats. First one I bought with the intention that I have a house to live on. Later I bought a second one and changed my intention to sell them both after some time to buy a house for me. Both are rented. I want to know.

1. How much zakat I have to pay now.

2. If I use the rent for my retirement money to live without work how do I have to pay zakat?

3. If I sell them and buy a house and start living in it and partly rent it to get money to survive in old age, how should I pay zakaat on it?

Q: I am a 70 year old retired person and have no means of income besides some investments in Islamic bonds. I pay Zakat Alhamdollilah every year to deserving persons. My 100 year old mother fell seriously sick and had a Paralysis stroke and presently is in Coma stage. She is attended by two female nurses [12 hours duty each] and one Physiotherapist at my home besides her prescribed medications. I am aware that I am not allowed to give Zakat money to Parents. However, cost incurred by me on her treatment and Nursing / Physiotherapy is beyond my reach as I have a very limited pension type income. Can I pay her treatment, Nursing and Physiotherapy expenses from my Zakat fund?

Q: If we pay zakaat for 108 grams gold one year, next year we minus 2.5 grams from that gold or not? I mean we pay 105.5 grams zakaat next year or pay for the same 108 grams?