Zakat on rental income with mortgage?

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Assalam-u-Laykum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatu,

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I have a question regarding the payment of zakat on the rental income on a property that has a mortgage.

I will provide simple examples:

Question 1:

I have a property where the rental income is £500 per month and the monthly mortgage repayment is £500.

Do I still have to pay zakat on the rental income?

Question 2:

At the start of the Islamic year a person had savings £10,000, in the middle of the year the person's savings went down to their lowest level of £2000, at the end of the year the savings increased to £15,000.

Does the person have to pay zakat on £10,000, £2000 or £15,000?

Jazakallah,
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[Imam]

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Jazak'allah for your question. Where the rental income for a property is £500 per month, and the monthly mortgage repayment is £500 per month, then because you are indebted to paying your mortgage of £500 per month, there is no zakat upon this income, as you are in debt.


If at the start of an Islamic Year, a person has savings of £10,000, and then in the middle of the year the savings went down to £2,000, and at the end of the year the savings increased to £15,000 then the consecutive value of the savings which have been saved throughout the year, and the value which is zakatable is £2,000.


A similar question to yours has been answered in the archives.




Wallahu A'lamu Biththawaab



M. Waseem Ashrafi



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