Need an accurate figure for emergency charity? This free tool helps you work out the per-person or per-day amount due for this Islamic obligation at current local rates, using your own fitrana, fidya, kaffarah and charitable dues figures rather than rough estimates. Download or share the result when you finish.
Working through emergency charity matters, as small errors affect families awaiting your help. Take the example here, people covered: 1, across 25 days, costed at USD 12 daily, totals USD 300. Know that it is counted per person and per day at the local feeding cost - considered within Islamic Obligations using evidence, not approximations. So this tool here reveals the full method for your Islamic duties before you pay anything. Those entitled deserve precisely their share, no less not an educated guess.
The Emergency Charity Planner stands as the Islamic Obligations answer to handling Emergency Charity correctly. It works out the amount owed for Emergency Charity from who is covered and for how long and the price of staple food where you live, ready to pay at once or in parts.
The calculation happens on your own device: no sign-up, no fee, nothing stored on a server. Rerun it as often as you like — the example here turns USD 6,003 net into USD 150 — and download a PDF report.
The tool exists for people holding Emergency Charity seeking certainty about the amount not an approximation. Many arrive with holdings near USD 6,455 of Emergency Charity, work through it with relatives, or settle it for the household.
Two Nisab figures decide the duty on Emergency Charity throughout this page. In gold, the Nisab is 87.48 grams in gold, about USD 6,685 at the indicative reference price of USD 76.42 per gram used here. In silver, the Nisab is 612.36g of silver, indicatively USD 600 at USD 0.98 a gram. The example's net figure — USD 6,003 net — above silver, below gold: the in-between zone where the anchor you follow decides. Treat both as indicative: the live calculator refreshes both figures live when you calculate.
Obligations of this kind are worked out per person and per day rather than as a percentage of wealth. Put concretely for Emergency Charity: 1 person over 25 days at USD 12 a day comes to USD 300. Fidya — for fasts missed by someone who cannot make them up — is the cost of feeding one poor person for each missed day, classically the staple food of your locality. At 3 people instead, the 25-day figure would be USD 900. Kaffarah is weightier: freeing a slave historically, then fasting two consecutive months, then feeding sixty poor people for each deliberately broken fast. Fitrana (Zakat al-Fitr) is one sa' of staple food, roughly 2–3 kilograms, or its cash value, per household member, paid before the Eid prayer. The Emergency Charity Planner multiplies people × days × your local daily rate, so replace the sample rate with your local figure.
Using the Emergency Charity Planner needs no account or special knowledge. Have your Emergency Charity figures beside you, then follow the steps one by one. Each step names the figure it needs.
Before you pay, save the PDF breakdown with your records for next year. Last year's report — USD 6,003 net, USD 150 due on the sample run — will show exactly what was counted this time.
A worked case: covering 1 person and 6 units at USD 12 per unit, the Emergency Charity total is USD 72. Local food prices set the real rate, so replace the rate with your local figure.
Four mistakes recur every year with calculations like this one. Running through them now turns an estimate into a figure you can defend.
The schools have discussed calculations of this kind in detail, and their shared guidance follows. The schools agree that these obligations are real debts owed to the poor, not optional charity, and that they are measured by feeding — the staple food of your own locality. They differ on practical points: whether Fidya may be paid in cash value (widely permitted today, and the basis of most published rates), whether Fitrana follows the father's or the local school's staple measure, and exactly when a chronic excuse makes Fidya permanent rather than a debt of fasts to repay. Put concretely for Emergency Charity: 1 person over 25 days at USD 12 a day comes to USD 300.
It processes emergency charity, focusing on duty is counted in people, ahead of any deduction. Its worked example: 1 people included, 25 days owed, USD 12 per day, totals USD 300. Every number typed stays displayed openly, never hidden. Feel free to adjust any figure and watch your answer adjust itself.
Yes, completely. This site's 209 tools requires no subscription plan and no registration is asked. Amounts you input for emergency charity stay private on screen before Ramadan or after sales. You will find it in the Islamic Obligations range, among related tools covering adjacent questions too. It never asks payment.
Certainly, it captures people and days counted produced by emergency charity in one dated file. The sample outcome, USD 300 derives entirely from 1 persons, 25 days priced at USD 12 daily. Place the file with evidence of actual payment so everything stays auditable. Printing it works as well.
You get 195 countries every one in local currency, for example Turkey with figures in TRY. Your country selection reprices the nisab pair from current metal prices so thresholds match reality. When assets behind emergency charity sits in two countries, run it where you'll pay, converting the foreign part at the rate when paying.
In a routine emergency charity case, the usual approach usually covers everything: every person included, every day counted, local food cost used. Ask a knowledgeable scholar whenever you face a chronic illness where recovery as calculators miss personal context. They can also verify which nisab standard matches your school's position.
Estimates follow widely used Shariah principles. For complex cases, confirm with a qualified scholar.