Zakaah Calculator

Work out your Zakaah and help feed families in Cape Town. Every R3.50 feeds one person a hot meal.

Your Zakaah

Zakaah is 2.5% of the wealth you have held for a lunar year, once it is above the nisaab. Enter what you own and owe on your Zakaah date.

The figures below are an example. Replace them with your own.

Nisaab

Silver (612.36 g) Gold (87.48 g)

Silver price per gram today

Gold price per gram today

The prices shown are examples. Use today's price from your bank or jeweller, or the nisaab value published by your local Ulama.

What you own

Cash at home and in bank accounts

Gold (value today)

Silver (value today)

Shares, unit trusts and savings investments

Business stock and goods for sale

Money owed to you that you expect back

What you owe now

Debts and bills due now (e.g. this month's instalments, money borrowed)

Total wealthR100,000 Less debts due nowR8,000 Zakaatable wealthR92,000 NisaabR12,247

Your wealth is above the nisaab, so Zakaah is due.

R2,300

Your Zakaah could feed 657 people a hot meal.

Pay R2,300 Zakaah with card

Paying by EFT

Bank: Standard Bank, Constantia (5309)
Account: 10 14 774 105 8
Holder: Falaah Foundation

ReferenceZAKAAH + your name

Card payments open our secure Yoco page with your Zakaah amount filled in. Zakaah given to Falaah is used only for the poor and needy, through food parcels and feeding.

This calculator is a guide. Retirement funds, property, and gold or silver for personal use are treated differently by different schools. Please confirm your Zakaah with your Imam or a Zakaah authority.