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Zakāt calculator

الزكاة

The Zakāt Worksheet from the library, with the arithmetic done for you. Nothing you enter leaves this phone.

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Step 1 · Your currency and today’s prices

Zakāt falls due once a full lunar year passes over wealth that met the niṣāb at the start of that year. Choose one Ḥijrī date and keep to it every year — most choose a date in Ramaḍān. What matters is the balance on that day, not the fluctuations between.

Enter today’s price per gram from a jeweller or a bullion dealer. Sabīl does not fetch prices, so nothing about you is sent anywhere.

Step 2 · The niṣāb
Niṣāb: —

Enter a price per gram to see the niṣāb.

Use the silver niṣāb where your wealth is in cash or mixed — it is the lower threshold and more beneficial to the poor, and is the position of Ḥ. Using gold is the practice of many contemporary institutions.

Step 3 · Total the zakatable wealth
Cash — in hand, current and savings accounts
Gold and silver — by weight, jewellery included

Ḥ zakats worn jewellery; M, S, Ḥb exempt what is worn in moderation.

Business stock — at current resale value
Shares held to trade — full market value

Held long-term for dividends: the zakatable assets behind them only.

Money owed to you, where recovery is expected
Pensions and investments you can access
Rental income held at the ḥawl date

The property itself is not zakatable.

Subtotal0
Less: debts due now, and immediate expenses
Net zakatable wealth0

Not zakatable: your home, your car, furniture, clothing, tools of your trade, and a long-term mortgage beyond the instalments falling due this year.

Zakāt due — × 2.5% (÷ 40)0An aid to calculation that follows the worksheet. It is not a fatwā; for your own case, ask a scholar.

An aid to calculation that follows the worksheet. It is not a fatwā; for your own case, ask a scholar.

The learning behind it
Read the full worksheet

The worksheet explains the ḥawl date, who may receive zakāt, and where the schools differ.

Sabīl PlusSaved zakāt years — Your records, year after year, arrive with Sabīl Plus.