{"id":36225,"date":"2025-04-30T15:42:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T15:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/?p=36225"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:49:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:49:26","slug":"ruling-on-whether-taxes-and-social-security-payments-substitute-zakat-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/ruling-on-whether-taxes-and-social-security-payments-substitute-zakat-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruling on Whether Taxes and Social Security Payments Substitute Zakat in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fatwa ID: 08050<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Answered by Alimah Humairah Badshah<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Question:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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I am Sunni Muslim Alhamdulillah. I am living in Europe from last 21 years. I am paying my Taxes regularly, every month.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I was paying zakat every year. But now a days I heard some mufti’s talking about Zakat that if you are paying taxes and social security, you don’t need to pay Zakat. There are also some Arabs, Malaysian, Indonesian and American Mufti’s, gave fatwa about it, that once you paid Taxes, its not obligation to pay Zakat.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Taxes and social security in a non-Muslim country do not constitute zakaat. One reason for this is that zakaat has specific categories, and cannot be used for things like repairing roads, building bridges and the majority of tasks which taxpayer’s money is spent on in most countries.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The zakaat needs to be given to the eligible recipient, not merely used to benefit the general population. A second reason is that zakaat money cannot be spent on the poor from the non-Muslims; the money must be spent on those eligible poor people who are Muslim.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Additionally, when one pays taxes they do so intending to pay off a debt and an obligation which is upon them, not as an act of charity or zakaat.<\/span><\/p>\n

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For these reasons, paying one’s taxes does not remove the obligation of zakaat.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Only Allah (\u0639\u0632 \u0648 \u062c\u0644) knows best.<\/span><\/p>\n

Written by Alimah Humairah Badshah<\/span><\/p>\n

Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/p>\n

Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nAl-Fataawa Al-Hindiyyah (Daar Al-Fikr, https:\/\/shamela.ws) v.1 p.188<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nRadd Al-Muhtaar (Halabi ed., Daar Al-Fikr, https:\/\/shamela.ws) v.2 p.257<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nBadaai’ Al-Sanaai’ (Daar Al-Kutub Al-‘Ilmiyyah, https:\/\/shamela.ws) v.2 p.49<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nAl-Fataawa Al-Hindiyyah (Daar Al-Fikr, https:\/\/shamela.ws) v.1 p.171<\/span><\/p>\n

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