{"id":2269,"date":"2012-08-14T11:39:22","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T11:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/?p=2269"},"modified":"2012-08-13T21:46:20","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T21:46:20","slug":"zakaat-on-real-estate-four-types","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/zakaat-on-real-estate-four-types.htm","title":{"rendered":"Zakaat on Real Estate (Four Types)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>In the Name of Allaah, the Most Merciful, the Ever-Merciful&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Permanent Committee for Research and Fatwaas, headed by Shaykh &#8216;Abdul-&#8216;Azeez ibn Baaz (may Allaah have Mercy on him), was asked about a vacant lot of land purchased three years ago &#8211; Is there z<em>akaat<\/em> due upon it?<\/p>\n<p>Their official published answer was as follows:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you have prepared it for sale, then you are required to pay zakaat on it for the years that have past, based on its value at the end of each year.\u00a0 Then, you must continue to pay zakaat on it at the end of each year (of ownership).<\/p>\n<p>If you are planning to build a house for yourself on it, there is no zakaat due upon it.<\/p>\n<p>If you are planning to build a house on it to rent it to others, then you are to pay zakaat from the rent that you earn from it, after you&#8217;ve saved it for a year if it remains above the nisaab, wither by itself or mixed in with the rest of your (saved, zakaatable) wealth.<\/p>\n<p>If you are planning to build a farm on it, then once it is built you must pay zakaat on your harvests of seeds and fruits, according to what is well known about the zakaat due on harvests of seeds and fruits.<\/p>\n<p>And through Allaah (alone) is success.\u00a0 May\u00a0He raise the rank of our Prophet Muhammad, and that of his family and companions, and\u00a0grant them all peace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <em>Fataawaa Al-Lajnat ad-Daa&#8217;imah<\/em> (9\/328-329).<\/p>\n<p><em>Translated by: Moosaa Richardson\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Name of Allaah, the Most Merciful, the Ever-Merciful&#8230; The Permanent Committee for Research and Fatwaas, headed by Shaykh &#8216;Abdul-&#8216;Azeez ibn Baaz (may Allaah have Mercy on him), was asked about a vacant lot of land purchased three years &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/zakaat-on-real-estate-four-types.htm\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,85,180,59,91],"tags":[198,230,283],"class_list":["post-2269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commerce","category-fiqh-islamic-rulings","category-questions-answers","category-translations","category-zakaat","tag-ibn-baaz","tag-permanent-committee","tag-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2269"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2271,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions\/2271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}