Zakaat on savings
Question
My question is related to zakat. If a divorced women with one dependant child is not working, and has a saving for her daughter's university education, does zakat apply on that amount of savings? Is this woman, who has no support, liable to pay zakat?
Answer
In the first place it is the worst thing for a mother to do for her child, to expose her to this type of an environment where there is more than a 50 percent risk of her imaan and modesty coming under attack. Yes, she is liable to pay zakaat.
And Allah Ta'ala (الله تعالى) knows best.
- Answered by
- Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Isipingo Beach)
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