# Do I pay zakat again on savings that haven't grown?

*Patreon questions: zakat again on savings that have not grown?*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/32/
- Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:30:37–2:33:07)
- Status: latest answer on its topic; a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv-BlBVTr4M&t=9037s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/

**Topics:** Zakat and charity

**Question as asked:** If I have savings and I pay zakat on them, but by next year they have stayed the same, do I pay zakat on them again or only on the increase?

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Zakat is due again each year on the same savings, Mufti Abu Layth says, giving it as what is technically said.

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth welcomes a first-time viewer, answers a chat remark, and opens the questions his patrons posted on Patreon. The first asks whether savings on which zakat was paid, and which stayed the same a year later, owe zakat again or only on the increase. Mufti answers that technically, they would say, zakat is paid again, since each year counts afresh. He then passes over a message he cannot make sense of.

## Sources and names cited

- zakat

## Transcript (machine tier, 2:30:37–2:33:07)

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[2:32:30] that's my patrons on patreon right but they some very interesting questions so I thought and a lot of you have asked similar ones is that my private jet in lockdown Salam mu quick one if I have for example savings and I pay zakat on them but then by next year they have stayed the same do I pay zakat on them again or only the increase technically they would say you pay zakat again if um like each year kind of counts fresh that's

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment Hv-BlBVTr4M/s/32. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/32/

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