Zakat & Charity

Zakat is the yearly almsgiving of Islamic practice, and this topic also covers giving beyond it. Most questions here are about arithmetic and timing rather than principle. Readers ask which assets count, who may receive a payment, and when a year has completed. The pages below cover zakat basics and nisab, the minimum threshold, zakat on money and gold, and who may receive zakat. Every answer here is a sourced summary of a fatwa. Missed and delayed zakat has its own pages if that is what brought you here.