Zakat

Your Zakat, given with care

What Zakat is, who it is for, and how Lifeline makes sure yours reaches people who are eligible to receive it.

Pay your Zakat

Zakat

Your Zakat, given with care

What Zakat is, who it is for, and how Lifeline makes sure yours reaches people who are eligible to receive it.

Pay your Zakat

What is Zakat?

Zakat is one of the five pillars of Islam: a yearly duty to give 2.5% of the wealth you have held for a full lunar year, once it is above a minimum amount called the nisab. It purifies wealth and makes sure part of it reaches people in need.

Who pays Zakat

Zakat is due from an adult Muslim who has owned wealth at or above the nisab for one full lunar year.

  • Cash and savings, at home or in the bank
  • Gold and silver
  • Shares, investments and business stock
  • Money owed to you that you expect to be repaid

Debts you must pay now are taken off. Your home, car and personal belongings are not counted.

The nisab

We use the silver nisab: the value of 612.36 grams of silver, updated with live prices. It is the lower of the two standards, so more people pay and more people receive.

Who can receive Zakat

The Quran (9:60) names eight groups: the poor; people in need; those who collect and distribute Zakat; those whose hearts are to be reconciled; freeing those in bondage; people in debt; in the cause of Allah; and the stranded traveller.

How Lifeline looks after your Zakat

  • Your Zakat is kept in a separate Zakat Fund and never mixed with other donations.
  • It is given only to people eligible to receive it.
  • Our emergency appeals and other campaigns do not take Zakat, so every Zakat gift is given here.
  • Your receipt shows that your gift was Zakat.

Pay your Zakat

Not sure how much you owe? Use our Zakat calculator.

Zakat questions

Zakat is due once a lunar year has passed on wealth above the nisab. Many people choose to pay in Ramadan, but you can pay at any time.

All Zakat goes into our Zakat Fund and is given to eligible people where the need is greatest in the places we work. To keep Zakat separate, our country appeals themselves take Sadaqah only.

Use our Zakat calculator: enter what you own and what you owe, and it tells you whether Zakat is due and how much, using today’s silver nisab.

Yes. Your receipt is sent by email and shows that your gift was Zakat. You can download every receipt from your account.

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