Fidya is feeding one poor person for each fast permanently missed — one day's food cost per day owed. Multiply your missed days by the local daily rate to find the total to pay or arrange.
Being precise about fidya is important: small mistakes alter amounts others truly deserve. Using the worked example, covering 3 people in total, spanning 12 days, USD 8 a day, giving USD 288 due. Keep in mind, it is counted head by head, daily with local food prices - counted within Islamic Obligations with rules, not hunches. That is why it presents numbers for checking concerning your Islamic duties ahead of your payment. Recipients have a right to their exact, lawful share rather than your estimate.
The Fidya Calculator stands as a free online tool in the Islamic Obligations category. It totals what Fidya requires using the headcount and the days in question priced at local staple-food costs, ready to pay at once or in parts.
Nothing you enter leaves your device: free, private and unrecorded. Adjust and rerun until the breakdown matches your records; the example lands on USD 109 due from a net USD 4,347.
The page is written for Muslims who own Fidya who wants a defensible figure rather than an estimate. Positions cluster around USD 4,674 on the sample scale, work through it with relatives, or verify a figure from a previous year.
Two reference thresholds anchor the test for Fidya before rates enter the picture. The gold Nisab is 87.48 grams in gold, around USD 6,685 on reference pricing of USD 76.42 a gram, as used here. In silver, the Nisab is 612.36g of silver, around USD 600 on the same basis. The example's net figure — USD 4,347 after debts — passes the silver line but not gold: exactly where the threshold choice decides the Fidya duty. Prices move, so both are indicative: the live calculator refreshes both figures live at the moment of use.
Obligations of this kind are worked out per person and per day rather than as a percentage of wealth. A sample run for Fidya — 3 people, 12 days, USD 8 a day — totals USD 288. 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 5 people instead, the 12-day figure would be USD 480. 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 Fidya Calculator multiplies people × days × your local daily rate, so replace the sample rate with your local figure.
The Fidya Calculator takes a couple of minutes. Have your Fidya figures beside you, then work through the steps in order. By the final step the Fidya result explains itself.
If the result surprises you, save the PDF breakdown with your records for next year. Last year's report — USD 4,347 net, USD 109 due on the sample run — will show exactly what was counted this time.
A worked case: for 3 people over 12 units at a local rate of USD 8 per unit, the Fidya calculation gives USD 288. Local food prices set the real rate, so replace the rate with your local figure.
The same four errors quietly change real bills in Fidya calculations. Checking them against the worked example (net USD 4,347) is most of the difference between a guess and a sound figure.
Jurists have long considered tools of this kind carefully, and the settled guidance is this. Most other schools require a full sa' of the local staple. Neither is an error: each follows its own transmitted evidence. Pay the rate your community's scholars announce for Fidya, and the multiplication — people, days, households — is what this page exists to get right. A sample run for Fidya — 3 people, 12 days, USD 8 a day — totals USD 288.
It works through fidya, looking at the duty is counted in, with nisab checked after. The sample running here: a household of 3, spanning 12 days, rate: USD 8 daily, comes to USD 288. All figures shown stay available whenever you recheck. You can change any input and watch your answer adjust itself.
Yes. ZakatSuite's entire tool collection charges no fee ever and no account is required. Data entered regarding fidya stay private on screen whenever your position changes. It lives in the Islamic Obligations set, with related calculators covering adjacent questions too. Your wallet stays untouched.
Yes, the PDF preserves extra sadaqah shown separately from your fidya in a single document. The worked outcome, USD 288 can be retraced to 3 persons, 12 days costed at USD 8 daily. Save it alongside your bank payment record for a complete paper trail. Printing it works as well.
You get 195 countries every one in local currency, for instance Canada using money called CAD. Choosing a country reprices gold and silver thresholds from current metal prices and your test stays local. Where holdings for fidya is split across countries, run it where you'll pay, changing the foreign part at the rate on the day.
In a routine fidya matter, the classical method will serve you well: 3 persons included, every day counted, rate per day applied. Take advice from scholars when your case involves fasts missed over several years : calculators cannot see those facts. They can also review whether gold or silver nisab fits your school of thought.
Estimates follow widely used Shariah principles. For complex cases, confirm with a qualified scholar.