Fatwa #95815 September 2000Pakistan

If a wife has gold jewelery, who is liable to pay zakat on it, husband or wife. The wife owns that gold but she is not working.

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In principle, the Zakaat is due on the wife. However, the husband may pay her Zakaat with her consent.

And Allah Taãla Knows Best.

Was salaam

Mufti Ebrahim Desai
FATWA DEPT.

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#42812I do not have money to pay the Zakat on gold I won. What should I do?

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