Fatwa ID: 06621

Answered by: Maulana Burhaan Rahman

Question:

An Imam says, if you paid Zakah in Ramadhan (2022) this year to a charity, and the Zakah is not spent by the next Ramadhan (2023), your Zakah is invalid. Is this correct?

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

Answer:

Zakaah is to be given every year if your wealth (money/cash) reaches the nisaab (minimum threshold), regardless if the organization/people you have given it to have not spent it, dispatched it out etc.

(فتجب) زَكاتها إذا تم نصابا وحال الحول…(وبدل مال تجارة) فكلما قبَض أرْبعِين درْهما يلْزمه درْهم

(It’s necessary) to give zakah if the money he accumulates throughout the year reaches the minimum threshold…(and exchange of trade for example), whenever he receives forty dirhams he must give one dirham towards zakaah (2.5% essentially) [Rad Al Muhtar Vol 2 Page 305]

Only Allah knows best.

Written by Maulana Burhaan Rahman

Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah

Darul Ifta Birmingham