Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Simplified Zakat Guidance The Basics of Zakat Calculation

One of the most important questions that we get most

simplest questions rather is that how to calculate user cut. So we

can understand this from the confusing questions that people

ask. Now the simplest way to understand this is that remember

the cut I'm going to first talk about some misconceptions are

going to clear some misconceptions. Zakat is not do on

your money as soon as you have it. Number two, Zakat is not do on

every new bit of money that you receive that you count a year

from, from each set of new money that you get to each new nisab you

get, right. So for example, if today I earn 1000 pounds is my

salary. And now I'm going to, I'm going to see if I retain that same

1000 for one year, then I'm going to give zakat on it, then the next

month, I get another 1000. So I've got another anniversary for that.

No, it's not like that. The ways that God works is that

you have to pass one year on your wealth before you have to pay

zakat. But it starts a year before that. So the way it begins is that

let's imagine there's a guy who is in a young youth who's in school,

they then get their first job until now they were literally hand

to mouth, they had a bit of money, you know, 100 pounds, $100 $200,

whatever, but they never had any significant savings, because they

would constantly spend it. But now mashallah they're gonna get their

first job. And imagine they've got no loans as well, right? Because

Jerry, a lot of the students today they come up with loans, let's

just say they have no loans, they're gonna get their first

paycheck. So let's just say that I got my first paycheck on the day

of Eid, let's just say, right, the 30th, or actually the first of

Chawan, right, that's my first paycheck I got, let's just say

that means.

The way this begins is the first time that you get a amount which

is called the nisab. The nisab generally works with silver or

gold, the silver nisab is generally right now approximately

250 pounds, probably about $300 worth is what the nisab of silver

is, what that basically means that the idea is that anybody who has

any sub who has this quantum of wealth, they're considered to be

wealthy enough to pay Zakat and not receive zakat from anybody

else. The gold nisab is right now just shut up nearly doubled in its

price from like a year or two ago is gone to about 4000 pounds from

the last time I checked, it genuinely used to have around 2500

pounds, there's a big difference between the quantum of silver and

the quantum of gold. In earlier times, they used to be the same

material, Silver has become very, very cheap. But the fuqaha the way

they use it is that whichever nisab your wealth reaches, then

you go by that and you're considered wealthy. So if I get my

first paycheck of 1000 pounds, 600 pounds, whatever that means it's

more than the quantum of silver, right? Because that's the, that's

the lower one. I'm gonna I'm gonna go with that.

So that means I've got more than 250 pounds $300. So now my clock

begins to tick, I have to now wait for my anniversary. I'm not this

knows the car due yet. Right? Now throughout the year. Now, let's

just say I got my first paycheck on the first of Shawwal. Right?

That money is the first time I've got that significant amount of

money. Now, I'm I'm going to mark that date, the next first the next

year that first of Shawwal comes is the important part, that's when

I need to check. Do I still have

a nisab at least 250 300 pounds, right nisab fluctuates. So you'll

have to get the updated price for your time that you do this, right.

But this is around the same price. Now, obviously throughout the

year, I've been making money, I've been spending money on my

expenses. That's fine. My year will consider my anniversary, my

year will come to the end and my scars will be due as long as at

the beginning I had any sub and after one year I still have any

sub and number three, the third condition in during the year I did

not go down to zero. Because let's just say I had 1000 pound but in

two months I spent it and then never got another paycheck. Right?

That means I went down to a zero maybe I even went in the red I had

to borrow money. That means this. This this clock ticking this year

has actually ended it's canceled, it didn't end.

That means I have to restart it from the next time that I get over

250 pounds, the quantum of silver, approximately 250 pounds right?

Then my my date is going to be pushed back because then I have to

wait another year from there. So remember the condition is that you

have to get the you have to become owner of an ESOP.

And then a one year has to pass where you don't go down to zero,

it will fluctuate you can go become a millionaire or you can go

down to two pounds. That's fine as long as you're not down to zero.

Then when the next that same date comes the next day. Remember it's

Islamic date. If you're going by Gregorian date, you're actually

cutting out 1011 days a year.

Right as cheating, right? So it's by Islamic date that so so when

the next year comes if I still have any sub knife I don't have

any salt on that day I've only got 100 pounds on that day. That means

there is a new Saba at the beginning but there's no nisab at

the end which means knows that God is God

knows that God is God. Now if there is nisab at the beginning

that's when my clock began one year past Islamic year past

mashallah, I did not go down to zero. And on my anniversary date

first of Shawwal mashallah, I've still got any sob. I could be. Now

I may have 5000 pounds. Or maybe I've just got 300 pounds, I've got

over a nisab. Now I must give zakat on that day. What how do I

give zakat? I basically on that day I calculate 2.5% of whatever I

have.

One day, that's all I need to look at just that day, how much money

have I got on that day? So if I've got 1000 pounds, My skirt is 25

pounds. If I've got 5000 pounds, My God is 125 pounds. All right.

And if I've got 400 pounds, then my skirt is that much less. That's

what No, let's just say the day before for sure. While somebody

gave me an advance Eid gift of another 5000 pounds

just the day before. So when I get to the first show, well, that's my

anniversary. And I've got over an ESOP. And now I've got myself

10,000 pounds, I had 5000 on my own, I got 10,000. Now, they only

came in the day before, I have to pay on 10,000 pounds. Because I

just it's so easy. This is the Hanafy way of doing it. It's the

easiest way because you just have to look at the two ends, as long

as you still have an ESOP. There, you just check the value on that

day, and you pay and all on that, right? So I'm gonna have to pay on

10,000 I'm not gonna say Oh, I had 5000. From before, that's my

average throughout the year, right. And this 5000 Just came

yesterday. So I should wait another year on that. No.

Likewise, if I had 5000, the day before, and tomorrow is the first

of Chawan my due date. But I make a big spend, write for needs or

whatever, I give it a gift.

I spent 4000 I've only got 1000 left the next day,

then I will pay zakat on only 1000. If I spent most of my money

the day before and now I've got less than a nisab then there's no

circuit and have to wait for another year from the time I

actually get an ESOP. Some people try to some people, you know,

don't get clever, and say okay, tomorrow's my is the current date.

I don't want to pay the Cardinals too much money. So I call my wife

that night before and I say you've been a wonderful wife to me

throughout, you know, martial the last year at least. So here's a

gift for you, I'm going to transfer this money over to you.

So now tomorrow when the first of Shawwal comes, I got no money

left, I've got maybe 100 pounds left, because I've transferred

over to her, she didn't have that much money. Now her year starts

from them, because she's just become owner. Now, she starts from

the 30 of Ramadan, for example. Now when her 30th of Ramadan is

about to come the next year, the 29th. And she comes to the

husband, man, you've been a wonderful husband to me this year,

I want to give you a gift and she transfers the money over to him.

That's that's not allowed. That would be haram to do it for that

reason, obviously. But technically speaking, I'm just trying to

explain to you that you just have to look on your day. And that's

the most important thing of what your assets are valued on that

day, in terms of what assets and so on what you're supposed to

value on that day. Right? We will look at that separately. But I

really just wanted to explain that it's not about every bit of income

you receive. And it is not about

what do you call it waiting for every lump sum of money to pass a

year over it? No, it doesn't matter what you receive in between

no matter if you go right up or you come down as long as you do

not go to zero. All of that is just fluctuation is all ignored

until you as a candidate comes again. Now that is why I mentioned

in another place which you can check out. You must have a fixed

date, you can fluctuate you can't keep it arbitrary. And that date

must be from where you initially became an owner and did not go

down to zero. Right now I know lots of people have forgotten that

date. That's why they can then get another date. Right, which they

fix for every year. The second of Ramadan, the first of Ramadan, the

30 of I wouldn't do 30 Ramadan because you'd have to go on the

29th because sometimes there's no 30th of Ramadan. So hopefully that

explains that inshallah. And that makes it easy for you to now work

out your zakat for yourself. Insha Allah Jazak Allah here, and may

Allah allow us to pay as a god on time and well Santa Monica