This page is the complete Zakat guide for Mauritania, for Zakat calculated and paid in MRU. It brings together the Nisab in your currency — MRU 23,824 on the silver standard and MRU 265,403 on the gold standard, indicatively — the gold and silver Nisab expressed in Mauritanian ouguiya, how giving is usually organised in Mauritania, what Ramadan 2027 will look like, and the calculators that do the arithmetic for you. Everything is free, and the calculators linked from this page run in your browser with live prices, converting the thresholds into MRU on the day you actually calculate.
The two thresholds a payer in Mauritania is judged against, at this guide's reference prices, are MRU 265,403 — the value of 87.48 grams of gold at MRU 3,034 per gram — and MRU 23,824, the value of 612.36 grams of silver at MRU 39 per gram, with the conversion running at 39.7 MRU per US dollar. Read them as the shape of the answer rather than its final digit: on your actual due date the live tool will quote the thresholds afresh in Mauritanian ouguiya. The practical consequence in Mauritania: net savings that pass MRU 23,824 and stay there for a lunar year are zakatable at 2.5% under the silver standard most scholars recommend for cash.
In practice, payers settle their Zakat through the same short list of routes: local Zakat committees that collect and distribute within the community, mosque collections, especially around Jumu'ah and during Ramadan and charity platforms and mobile giving apps. Whichever route you choose, the money has to arrive with recipients inside Quran 9:60's eight categories, and it must transfer into their ownership (tamlik). Many households in Mauritania the calculation is settled at home, then the payment is split across two or three trusted routes. Before paying, ask how funds are distributed, keep the receipt beside your calculation report, and check whether administration costs come out of the Zakat itself where an organisation deducts them. Because community life in Mauritania runs in Arabic, make sure family instructions are understood in that language.
Ramadan 1448 is expected to open on Monday 8 February 2027 in Mauritania, pending the sighted crescent and your community's announcement. Ramadan's last ten nights start at Maghrib on 27 February 2027, and Laylat al-Qadr is sought on the odd nights (27 February, 1, 3, 5 and 7 March) and the 27th night falling on the evening of Friday 5 March 2027. The final fast should fall on 8 or 9 March 2027, with Eid al-Fitr on 9–10 March 2027. Sehri and Iftar times across Mauritania are collected via the Ramadan 2027 timetables by city, and remember Fitrana falls due before the Eid prayer.
Suppose a saver in Mauritania holds MRU 100,063 in cash and savings — about 4.2 times the silver Nisab — with no debts due. Above the Nisab and held for a full lunar year, making the Zakat MRU 2,502 at 2.5%. Gold, business stock or foreign currency would be added in MRU first, with the 2.5% applied to the combined net total.
The short answer for Mauritania: gold's Nisab is MRU 265,403 (87.48 grams of gold) and silver's is MRU 23,824 for 612.36 grams of silver. Behind those figures sit per-gram values of MRU 3,034 for gold and silver at MRU 39 the gram in Mauritania, at 39.7 MRU per US dollar. Markets move every day, so use the live calculator for the binding figure on your due date; and most scholars test cash against the silver figure.
For Mauritania, the money of the calculation is MRU, the Mauritanian ouguiya. Wealth held in other currencies are converted into MRU using the rate on your Zakat date and tested once, with the local total . What travels is the method, not the money: 2.5% of net zakatable wealth above the Nisab, after one full lunar year.
Total the zakatable side in MRU — cash and savings, metals priced today, business stock, investments and money owed to you. Take off the debts due now, then compare the net figure with the Nisab — start with the silver figure, MRU 23,824. Once the threshold and the hawl are both met, pays one-fortieth of the net total — MRU 2,502 on the MRU 100,063 example worked through above.
Fitrana follows the food, not the calculator: the duty is one sa' of local staple food — roughly 2–3 kilograms of wheat, flour, rice or dates — per household member. Scholars in Mauritania publish the MRU figure every Ramadan, and community announcements there are commonly made in Arabic. Pay it for each person in the household, children included, and must reach the poor before the Eid prayer. Enter the announced MRU rate in the Fitrana calculator and it totals the household's duty.
Regionally, Mauritania is grouped with the rest of Africa; with community languages Arabic. The country code is MR, and the short version of this page is at zakatsuite.com/mr. The full set of 209 tools runs for Mauritania in MRU, including live Nisab conversion and PDF reports; neighbouring coverage includes the Zakat calculator for Eritrea.