METHOD FOR CALCULATING NISAAB & ZAKAT PAYABLE BASED ON SILVER, FOR WHICH THE NISAAB STIPULATION IS FIXED AT 52.5 TOLA

 METHOD FOR CALCULATING NISAAB & ZAKAT PAYABLE BASED ON SILVER, FOR WHICH THE NISAAB STIPULATION IS FIXED AT 52.5 TOLA

One Tola = 11.664 grams 52.5 Tola = 612.36 grams

Take the current local price of silver and multiply it by 612.36 grams, to get the current standard Nisaab (Threshold for Zakaat).

Example

1.If the current silver price is R7.81 per gram

2.Take R7.81 and multiply it by 612.36 grams = R4782.00

3.Nisaab is thus 4782.00 as per the current rate

4.For example, if you have 4782.00 based on the above example, then the Zakaat payable will be 4782 x 2.5% = R119.55 (Zakaat Payable)

5.Alternatively take R4782.00 (i.e. whatever is the amount on which you need to pay Zakaat based on the rules explained in this book, and divide it by 40. This will also give you the Zakaat which is payable.

Important Note: When working out Zakaat on your gold and silver jewellery etc. The Zakaat payable is not based on current price of that jewellery, but it is based on the current price of weight of the gold or silver.

In other words, if a person has 111 grams of gold. He or she will multiply it by the current local price of gold for the said carat of gold. Thereafter he or she will calculate 2.5% of it (i.e. one fortieth) which will be the Zakaat payable.

Example

1.If the current local gold price of 24 carat gold is R534.00 per gram

2.As per the above example take 111 grams and multiply it R534.00, which equals R59, 274. This will be the current gold value for the said weight.
3.Take 2.5% of the value of that gold which is R59, 274 x 2.5% = R1481.85. So the Zakaat payable on 111 grams of gold will be R1481.85.
4.Alternatively you can divide the value by 40 and it will also give you the same amount, which in this example is R1481.85 which is the Zakaat payable on the weight of that gold.
Zakaat is currently worked out based on silver as the silver price per gram is cheaper than gold currently. If the gold became cheaper than silver, the Nisaab would be calculate based on gold prices.
Silver Nisaab is as per 52.5 Tola Silver = 612.36Grams (612) Gold Nisaab is as per 7.5 Tola Gold = 87.48 Grams

I have attempted to present the above mentioned formula to make calculating Nisaab, and your Zakaat on money, gold and silver etc. easier. [Sag e Mufti e Azam Muhammad Afthab Cassim Qaadiri Razvi Noori]

STRIVE TO PROTECT YOUR IMAAN

It is the responsibility of every Muslim to strive to protect his or her Imaan, and the Imaan of those Muslims around them. The most valuable gift that Almighty Allah has bestowed upon us, is the ‘Gift of Imaan’. We must all strive sincerely in the path of Allah and His Rasool ﷺ, as this is the means of protecting our Imaan. As Muslims, we need to inculcate an ‘Atmosphere of Knowing’ amongst ourselves.

We need to know what is acceptable in our Religion and what is not. We must educate ourselves and our children concerning the different deviant sects that have come out of Islam and are portraying themselves as Muslims, yet they intend to cause harm to the Imaan of the Muslims. These sects are wolves in sheep skin. In reality they are the thieves of Imaan. They intend to destroy the Imaan of the unsuspecting Muslims.

These corrupt non-Sunnis (deviants) try to lure the simple Muslims towards their web, by using their false claims of Namaaz, Fasting and other important practices of Islam. We need to protect ourselves and our children from these mischief mongers and deviant sects. These enemy of Islam disguised in the garb of Muslims know that by gaining closeness to Sayyiduna Rasoolullah ﷺ, a person becomes close to Allah. It is for this reason that their point of attack is the personality of Sayyiduna Rasoolullah ﷺ. These so-called ‘Muslims’ have tried for centuries to remove the blessed practices such as Moulood, Urs, Gyarhwee Shareef and Esaal-e-Sawaab etc from our communities.

The aim of doing this is because they know that by partaking in such practices a Muslim gains closeness to the pious servants of Allah, thus granting them closeness in the Most Majestic Court of the Creator, Allah Almighty. It must be noted that the love for the Beloved Rasool ﷺ is the soul of our Imaan.

The Mujaddid of the 14th Century, Imam e Ahle Sunnat Aala Hazrat Ash Shah Imam Ahmed Raza Khan ؓ states the following concerning the Beloved Rasool’s ﷺ unique personality. He explained that from the Blessed Hair of His ﷺ Blessed Head, up to His ﷺ Sacred Feet, The Beloved Rasool ﷺ is the Manifestation of Allah Almighty’s Magnificence. He also explains that Nabi ﷺ is such a unique human, that no other human is like him in any way. In reality, He ﷺ is such a splendid, unique and exalted human, that the Qur’an refers to him as Imaan, whereas Imaan in-turn refers to him as its soul.

We should thus strengthen our souls and hearts by increasing in ourselves the love for the Beloved Nabi ﷺ. We should inculcate in our children the love for the Beloved Nabi ﷺ, and the love for the pious servants of Allah. As Sunni Sahihul Aqida Muslims, we should protect our families and friends from the traps and vices which the hypocrites have set in our paths. We need to become true in our claim. We alL claim to love Sayyiduna Rasoolullah ﷺ, yet we befriend those who slander the Beloved Nabi ﷺ or make them partners and agents in our Deeni matters.
One who has true Imaan will never befriend any person who slanders the Nabi ﷺ, His ﷺ Companions, His ﷺ Noble Family, and all those who love respect and revere them. If one, after knowing the corrupt

beliefs of those who are trying to mislead us still befriends them and keeps contact with them, then such a person is disloyal to the Beloved Nabi ﷺ. We must remain steadfast in our Aqida.

We must openly announce and publicise the correct and proper teachings of Islam. We must be true in accepting that Allah is free from all defects and shortages. We must accept that the Beloved Rasool ﷺ has been blessed with knowledge of the unseen, He ﷺ is Noor, He ﷺ has been blessed with the authority of intercession, He ﷺ has been blessed with being Wasila (the greatest means of acceptance in the court of Allah), He ﷺ has been blessed with being the Final Messenger, He ﷺ has been blessed with being the Distributor of Kauthar, He ﷺ has been blessed with the power to assist those in need, and He ﷺ has been blessed with the power of hearing our Durood, no matter how distant we may be.

We need to remain steadfast on the path of the Ahle Sunnat Wa Jama’at, which is the true path of the Sahaba-e-Kiraam, Tabi’een, Tab’be Taabi’een, The A’ima-e-Mujtahideen and the Awliyah-e- Kaamileen. This is the way to protect our Imaan and this is the only way to achieve salvation in the hereafter. This blessed path is today known as ‘Maslak e Aala Hazrat’.

Further, we should be wary of those ‘leaders/scholars’ who associate openly with those who support the deviants. We should never follow those who sit with those who are corrupt. We should not respect anyone due to their name and status, but we should respect someone due to their firmness in Imaan.

We must also be wary of those scholars, who think nothing of attending the venues and programs of those who support and publicise the deviants, such as wahabis, deobandis, shias and minhajis (tahiris) etc. One of most notorious fitnas of this era is the tahiri fitna of the deviant tahir minhaji, whose objective is to erase the distinction of the true believers. We should keep away from this destructive movement and all those who have even the slightest affiliation or association with it. Shame on those who call themselves leaders of Muslims, yet they ignore the command of staying away from the corrupt. They open the doors of ‘contamination’. When those ‘prominent scholars’ who are regarded as leaders of the Ahlus Sunnah, attend venues and programs of the supporters of budmazhabs, they have been disloyal to the course of the Ahlus Sunnah. They should never forget that soon death will overtake them, and they will be answerable in the Court of Almighty Allah for misleading the innocent Sunni public.

Allah protect our Imaan and save us from the deviants, their agents, their sympathisers and those who take lightly the hazards of sitting in the company of such people. Aameen

Sag e Mufti e Azam
Muhammad Afthab Cassim Qaadiri Razvi Noori