Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Simplified Zakat Guidance Paying In Advance

The card issue I want to cover right now is can you give us a cut

in advance, the card in advance could be given for many reasons.

One of them could be that you don't want to give like a lump sum

at the end. Or maybe there's a need that has arisen early, but

your year has not come up yet. You know, if you if you've listened to

the basic dynamics of zakat discussion we did earlier, you

will know that you have to generally wait for the year, one

year until the cat actually becomes binding upon you to pay,

right it becomes necessary and obligatory on from the beginning.

But it's only after one year that you have to see whether you have

to pay it or not. So let's just say in the middle of that year,

you want to there's a need that arises and you want to give that

and say that this is I'm going to give this as advanced zakat that

I'm due to give in Ramadan, or in Zul Hijjah, or whatever, can you

do that or not? So basically, yes, zakat can be given in advance, as

long as three conditions are met, right? The first condition has to

be there from before, which is that you already are in possession

of a nisab. Right, which is the quantum, and your year has begun.

Alright, consult the other, the other discussion about the basic

dynamics to get a better understanding of that. So once

you're, once you've received a nisab, and your year has begun

ticking, then now you can actually give an advance zakat. So now you

can expect that okay, in one year, I'm still going to have maybe 5000

pounds, or 2000 pounds. So let me give my zakat on 1000 is 25 pounds

on 2000, it's 50 pounds, so I'm going to get 50 pounds from now.

Now, the other two conditions that have to be met for that Zeca,

you've now already given in advance to be valid when you're

actually ends, because you only find out if that account was valid

and sufficient when your year ends. So now you wait until the

year ends. So two conditions number one, when your year ends,

you still have any sub minimum nisab, which is when the because

now it proves that zakat was actually obligatory upon you. So

that previous advance payment you made can now work for this, you

still got 2000 pound, your 50 pound you paid was sufficient. If

you've got more money, you'll just have to pay for the rest of it. If

you've got less, then you can say the rest of it is sadaqa. Right.

The third condition is that in the course of the year, you did not go

down to zero, you did not lose all of your wealth, because it had

that happen, your cycle would have restarted as I had mentioned in

that fundamental understanding, lecture I did earlier. Right. So

three conditions, you must have had started with an ESOP, you must

end with an ESOP and in between you do not go to zero lose all

your money. Then after that, basically, you can actually give

zakat in advance and then on the day of your zakat calculation, you

just adjust it prorated however you want. Based on this, or

according to this, you can actually give zakat for many

years. So I could imagine that if I'm going to have basically, you

know, for some people not sure that their wealth is quite steady,

right, they've got a very steady income, they've got very steady

expenditures, and they don't fluctuate too much. So they think

I'm going to generally my asset value is going to be 2000 pounds.

My asset values is going to be 2000 pretty much for the next five

years. So you can give basically 50 pound for each year. So you

give five times 50 pounds for the next five years. But remember, all

you have to do is make sure that you fulfill the conditions each

year. So when it comes to your jacket, date anniversary, you just

gotta have to calculate on that day and say Do I Do I still have

2000? Okay, so 50 was sufficient. Do I have less while 50 was

sufficient and extra sadaqa do I have more? Well, I better pay

more. So every year you will just prorate and correct accordingly.

So that's basically the condition of things are cut in advance. So

there could be many reasons for paying in zakat. So like that you

can give many years in in advance if you want to. May Allah accept I

was like that