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Brother Abdul Rahman emails that upon whom is Zakat do you from the owner of the of the

Mahal of the of the property or the one who is responsible for the maintenance of the owner put

another way he asks can somebody pay Zakat on behalf of somebody else or does the owner have to

pay Zakat himself or herself and then he says for example a woman has gold and she does not work

so is it allowed for the husband to pay the Zakat upon her wealth or must she pay of her own wealth

the response to this Zakat is an obligation due from the wealth to the poor if the owner of the

wealth is Balach then it is due from that owner Balach and Akil that if the owner is of age and

sound mind then the owner is primarily responsible if the owner is not Balach or not Akil so suppose a

child so an orphan child his father has left him $100,000 of property of the in the in the wealth

$100,000 in the banking or whatever the child is not Balach the child is not Akil at the stage so in

this case the guardian of the child shall dip into that account and take the Zakat and give it to

the to the mustahirqin so it is obligatory on the Akil and the Balach the one who's a Dalton what

not and it is obligatory on the wally of somebody who's not Balach and Akil however this obligation can

be transferred voluntarily she or the child cannot demand now obviously the child is not going to

be able to remember I'm saying in the case of the wife for example the wife is obligated to give

her own Zakat if she has the wealth and if she has jewelry by the way pause your footnote I have

not yet given a detailed discussion of the Zakat of jewelry maybe one day I will go into this because

the Zakat of gold jewelry is one of the most contentious issues of all of Zakat and it goes back

off from the time of the Sahaba do you give Zakat on your personal jewelry does a woman give Zakat

on gold or not this is a very very hotly debated topic amongst all of the four schools and perhaps

another time I will go into this but for now let us assume you are following the Hanafi Medhab

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