Zakat is the third pillar of Islam. If your savings reach the nisab, and one year has passed, i.e. a lunar (hijri) year has passed since the time when it reached the nisab, then zakat becomes due at that point.
The nisab is the equivalent of 85 grams of gold or 595 grams of silver.
Our simple Zakat Calculator will allow you to work out your annual Zakat payment. Fulfil your obligation, pay your Zakat online and provide a lifeline to thousands of poor and needy families.
Following Allah’s command:
Zakat (alms-tax) is only for the poor and the needy, for those employed to administer it, for those whose hearts are attracted ˹to the faith˺, for ˹freeing˺ slaves, for those in debt, for Allah’s cause, and for ˹needy˺ travellers. ˹This is˺ an obligation from Allah. And Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. [al-Tawbah 9:60]
We spend your zakat on the following eight categories:
Zakat is the third pillar of Islam – by paying Zakat we are fulfilling an obligation
It purifies our wealth – “Whoever pays the zakat on his wealth will have its evil removed from him” (Ibn Khuzaimah and at-Tabarani).
It will help us stay away from sins and save us from the fitnah arising from the love and greed of wealth.
Through Zakat, the poor are cared for; these include widows, orphans, the disabled, the needy and the destitute.