Zakat Calculator

How to calculate Zakat in five steps

1. Choose your country and school. Pick your country for the currency and choose the school of thought you follow.
2. Pick the Nisab. Choose gold, silver or the school's recommended Nisab and check the gold and silver prices.
3. Enter what you own. Add cash, bank savings, gold and silver (with unit and purity), investments, business stock and receivables.
4. Enter what you owe. Add debts, bills and loan instalments due within the year.
5. Read the result. If your net wealth is at or above the Nisab and a full lunar year has passed, pay 2.5% of it.

How the General setting works

The General setting counts every asset, treats worn jewellery as zakatable (the more cautious view), deducts debts due now, and lets you pick the gold or silver Nisab. Use a school page if you follow a particular school.

What is Zakat?

Zakat is the third pillar of Islam: a yearly obligation to give a fixed share of your savings to people in need. It purifies wealth and supports those the Quran names in 9:60, among them the poor, the needy, those in debt and travellers. The share is 2.5% of zakatable wealth, measured over one Hijri (lunar) year.

Who must pay Zakat?

An adult Muslim of sound mind whose zakatable wealth has stayed at or above the Nisab for a full lunar year. The wealth must be yours to use, not owed to someone else. If your total falls below the Nisab at any point, most scholars say the year starts again.

How the Nisab works

The Nisab is the minimum amount of wealth that makes Zakat due. It is set in weight: 85 grams of gold (20 mithqal) or 595 grams of silver (200 dirham), the figures most commonly used today. The calculator turns that weight into money using today's price, so the Nisab changes as prices change. Some references round it to 87.48 g and 612.36 g; tick the classical weights above to use those.

Gold Nisab or silver Nisab?

Silver is much cheaper than gold, so the silver Nisab is a far lower amount of money, and more people owe Zakat under it. Hanafi scholars and many modern councils prefer silver because it benefits the poor and is safer for the giver. Others follow the gold Nisab because paper money is closer in value to gold. Both are held by respected scholars; the calculator lets you choose.

Calculators by school

Each page uses the same tool with that school's defaults and explanation.

• General
• Hanafi
• Shafi'i
• Maliki
• Hanbali
• Jafari

How we calculate, and what we do not do

Prices are fetched, never typed by us, and you can override them. Weights are converted to grams first, then to pure metal by purity. Rules differ between scholars, so where schools disagree we follow the majority position of the school you pick and say so in the result. We do not store your figures and we do not track what you enter. Awqatly does not collect Zakat.

Sources and references

• The Quran, 9:60 (who may receive Zakat) and 9:103 (Zakat purifies wealth).
• Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, Book of Zakat: no Zakat is due on less than five awqiyah of silver (200 dirham).
• Sunan Abi Dawud, Book of Zakat: the report from Ali on the Nisab of gold (20 dinars) and the half-dinar due on it.
• AAOIFI Shari'ah Standard No. 35 (Zakah): modern treatment of money, shares and trade goods.
• Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Fiqh al-Zakah: the comparative study of the four schools on wealth, jewellery and debts.
• For Fiqh Jafari: the published rulings of the marja' (for example Sayyid Sistani, Minhaj al-Salihin, Book of Zakat and Khums).

Take it to a scholar

Use "Copy summary" or "Print" above to bring your figures to a scholar you trust. If you think a rule here is wrong for your school, tell us and we will review it. Report a rule that looks wrong

Zakat al-Fitr: Fitrana per person and for your household, before the Eid prayer.

Awqatly provides educational Zakat calculations based on recognized Islamic methodologies. For personal religious decisions, users should consult a qualified Islamic scholar.