{"_id":"6708131167b060569eead366","title":"{\"ops\":[{\"insert\":\"How are zakat al-fitr and zakat al-mal calculated?\\n\"}]}","question":"{\"ops\":[{\"insert\":\"How much should be paid for zakat al-fitr? If I plan to send my zakat al-fitr to another country, such as Jordan, should I pay the amount established there? Also, for zakat al-mal, do I pay 2.5% of all my wealth or only the amount I have saved during the previous year?\\n\"}]}","answer":"{\"ops\":[{\"attributes\":{\"color\":\"#000000\",\"background\":\"transparent\"},\"insert\":\"Zakat al-fitr in the Shafi school is one Saa, which is four mudds, so that would be about 2,036 grams of staple food as mentioned above. You can distribute it as food (which is the preferred way as per the Shafi scholars) or you can pay it in currency. Zakat funds are supposed to be distributed to the local community, however it’s permissible to send elsewhere if giving it to relatives or if the people there are in more dire straits or if there are no poor people locally. If you send it overseas, you pay whatever they pay there for zakat al fitr.\"},{\"insert\":\"\\n\\n\"},{\"attributes\":{\"color\":\"#000000\",\"background\":\"transparent\"},\"insert\":\"Zakat al-mal is 2.5% of your wealth to be paid on a yearly basis. Let’s put the word savings aside because it could confuse things. Once your assets reach the nisab (threshold) then you note that date down and it will be your zakat date. Then if a full lunar year passes by and you hit that zakat date again, you look at your assets, if they are still above nisab, you pay 2.5%, if not, then you wait until you hit the nisab again and repeat the process.\"},{\"insert\":\"\\n\"}]}","tags":[{"_id":"668d9ff50b76658b4c232a40","tag":"Zakat: Al-Mal","count":62},{"_id":"668da0560b76658b4c233490","tag":"Zakat: Al-Fitr","count":13}],"createdOn":"2024-10-10T17:46:57.216Z"}