Zakat al-Fitr

**salaam11** · 10-08-2012, 12:34 AM

Assalaamailaikum
I have read and heard that 'Zakat al-Fitr can be accepted as zakat if paid before eid-al-fitr', how strong are the hadeeths supporting this? Is this statement widely accepted or not?

Also regarding zakat, do you calculate it from using money that you will receive in the coming year or just the current amount held?

JazakhAllah khairun.

Walaikum assalaam.

**mohdabdulbaseer** · 10-08-2012, 07:48 PM

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**iSawab** · 10-08-2012, 10:05 PM

Originally Posted by salaam11

Assalaamailaikum
I have read and heard that 'Zakat al-Fitr can be accepted as zakat if paid before eid-al-fitr', how strong are the hadeeths supporting this? Is this statement widely accepted or not?

Also regarding zakat, do you calculate it from using money that you will receive in the coming year or just the current amount held?

JazakhAllah khairun.

Walaikum assalaam.

Salams.
As for the zakat, this is the amount held for a year. So, if you give zakat every Ramadan you have a clean basis of what you've held for a year.

Please consult a scholar on the zakat al-fitr being a part of zakat. I dont think this is the case, but Allah knows best.

**mohdabdulbaseer** · 11-08-2012, 06:26 PM

Originally Posted by iSawab

Salams.
As for the zakat, this is the amount held for a year. So, if you give zakat every Ramadan you have a clean basis of what you've held for a year.

Please consult a scholar on the zakat al-fitr being a part of zakat. I dont think this is the case, but Allah knows best.

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**fardinq** · 13-08-2012, 11:22 AM

Zakat is one of the five pillars of Islam in the month of Ramazan. Zakat is 2.5% of the savings from what you earn. That means if you save Rs.1000, you have to pay Zakat of Rs. 25. The amount is kept very small, basically so as not to tax the Muslims of their hard earned money at the same time ensuring that they do not neglect their poor brothern. Zakat is compulsory on every Muslim, who earns and has a property equivalent to 7.5 tola of Gold or 52.5 tola of Silver (1 tola = 10 grams). Zakat is given to poor Muslims, who according to the definition do not posses property as defined above, and become eligible to receive Zakat. It is required that one should distribute Zakat on the basis of priority. The first among the receivers should be your poor relatives, followed by your poor neighbors’ and then the remaining amount can be given to local seminaries like Madarsaa’s and schools run by/for Muslims. For more details go through this link fardinq.blogspot.in/2007/09/welcomeramzan-al-mubarak.html