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ZakatSuite's guides explain Zakat in full: how it is calculated, and how it is actually practised around the world. There are two collections. The calculation guides take one kind of wealth at a time — gold, silver, cash and savings, business stock, crypto, shares, pensions, debts owed to you, livestock and agriculture, and Fitrana — and work through the rules with a step-by-step example, the common mistakes, and the points where scholars differ.
The regional guides cover 21 world regions, from South Asia to Oceania. Each one describes how Zakat is organised there — the channels people pay through, the moon-sighting authority or convention, what the silver Nisab means locally, and how Fitrana is set — with the sources named. Where no central body or published figure could be verified, the guide says so plainly instead of inventing one.
Start with your wealth or your region, then use the linked calculators to work out your own figure. Worked examples use illustrative prices unless a published figure is stated; figures are those published for the year stated, so recheck the issuing body's current figure before paying. These guides are education, not fatwas: for a personal ruling, ask a qualified local scholar.
Zakat on Gold: How It Is Calculated — Gold you own as wealth is subject to Zakat at 2.5% once it reaches the nisab and a full lunar year has passed. The nisab for gold is 87.48 grams of pure gold.
Zakat on Silver: How It Is Calculated — Silver follows the same 2.5% rate as other monetary wealth, but it has its own nisab: 612.36 grams of pure silver. Once your silver reaches that weight and a
Zakat on Cash and Savings: How It Is Calculated — Cash is the simplest form of zakatable wealth, and the easiest to get wrong by omission. Zakat is charged at 2.5% on the money you own on your Zakat date —
Zakat on Business and Trade: How It Is Calculated — A trading business pays Zakat at 2.5% on its zakatable assets, once a lunar year has passed and the total reaches the nisab. The calculation is a balance sheet
Zakat on Crypto: How It Is Calculated — Cryptocurrency is treated as wealth for Zakat purposes by the scholars who have addressed it: if you own it, can access it and it has market value, it counts.
Zakat on Stocks and Shares: How It Is Calculated — Shares are zakatable wealth, but the method depends on why you hold them. The distinction matters more than any other detail on this page, so it comes first.
Zakat on Debts Owed to You: How It Is Calculated — Money you have lent to others is still your wealth, but whether you pay Zakat on it now depends on whether you expect to get it back. Scholars divide such
Zakat on Livestock and Agriculture: How It Is Calculated — Farm wealth follows different rules from money wealth. There is no 2.5% rate and no lunar year here: agricultural produce pays ushr at harvest, and livestock
Fitrana (Zakat al-Fitr): How It Is Calculated — Fitrana is different from annual Zakat. It is not 2.5% of wealth, it has no lunar year, and it is not tested against the nisab. It is a fixed amount per
Nisab and Thresholds: How They Work — The nisab is the minimum wealth that makes Zakat obligatory. Below it, you owe no Zakat; at or above it, for a full lunar year, you owe 2.5%. Everything else
Zakat on Pensions and Retirement Wealth: How It Is Calculated — Pensions are the hardest common case in Zakat, because the money is yours but you may not be able to touch it yet. The treatment therefore turns on access:
Zakat in Central America and the Caribbean — Covers Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama, and the Caribbean islands including Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican
Zakat in Central Asia — Covers Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. Central Asia's Muslims lived through seventy years of Soviet rule, during which public
Zakat in East Africa — Covers Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Somalia, Djibouti, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan and Eritrea. East Africa's distinctive feature is that moon sighting,
Zakat in East Asia — Covers China, Japan, South Korea, Mongolia, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. East Asia's Muslims are small minorities in very large countries, and the region's
Zakat in the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula — Covers Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman and Yemen. The Gulf is the one region where Zakat is, in places, a matter of tax
Zakat in the Indian Ocean Islands — Covers Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Comoros, Mayotte and Réunion. These island communities are small, scattered across thousands of kilometres of ocean,
Zakat in Iran and Afghanistan — Covers Iran and Afghanistan. These two neighbours are grouped together because neither fits the patterns around them: Iran's Shia-majority religious landscape
Zakat in the Levant and Iraq — Covers Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Palestine. The Levant has no Gulf-style Zakat tax and no South Asian-style state deduction. Giving is personal and
Zakat in North Africa — Covers Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Sudan. North Africa combines two strong traditions: Egypt's fatwa institutions, which publish some of the
Zakat in North America — Covers the United States, Canada and Mexico. North America has no state Zakat system and no single religious authority, which makes it the most decentralised
Zakat in Northern Europe — Covers Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland. Northern Europe has small, scattered Muslim communities, long summer days that complicate fasting, and no
Zakat in Oceania — Covers Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Samoa and Tonga. Oceania's distinctive feature is not Zakat collection but the
Zakat in South America — Covers Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Guyana and Suriname. South America's Muslims are concentrated
Zakat in South Asia — Covers Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, the Maldives and Bhutan. South Asia holds one of the world's largest Muslim populations, yet
Zakat in Southeast Asia — Covers Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Timor-Leste. This is the region where Zakat
Zakat in Southern Africa — Covers South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Malawi, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini and Angola. Southern Africa is the one African region with a
Zakat in Southern Europe — Covers Spain, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Malta, Cyprus, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Kosovo, Bulgaria, Romania
Zakat in Türkiye and the Caucasus — Covers Türkiye, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia. Türkiye dominates this region's religious life through one institution, the Presidency of Religious Affairs
Zakat in West Africa — Covers Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Mali, Niger, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Benin, Togo, Côte d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Liberia, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania and
Zakat in Western Europe — Covers the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Monaco and Liechtenstein. Western Europe's
Zakat in Eastern Europe — Covers Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and Russia. Eastern Europe mixes two very different Muslim stories: very old, very small