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Brother

Azmir from Malaysia writes that he owns a business of

importing and exporting certain types of equipment and he is wondering about Ramabhan is coming up

He gives Zakat every year. He is wondering about the Zakat on those equipment items

He sells certain types of merchandise that when he purchased it that sometimes

the merchandise

He knows he's gonna buy it, but he hasn't paid for it and it's not arrived and sometimes

For reasons that he didn't explain why the merchandise is sitting in his warehouse

But he has not paid for it, okay?

and

Sometimes he has paid for it and it has not yet arrived. It's on the way and of course

He has merchandise in his warehouse as well

So people come or call it the showroom is probably a better term or where it doesn't matter really

But the point is that he has it and people can purchase the walk-in to the store and they purchase that particular equipment

So he's asking about the Zakat on all of these various types of

Scenarios

The answer to this question is that this issue of Zakat it goes back to the concept of Zakat on

merchandise on business goods

This is an Arabic is called

Rulatijara that which you are advertising to sell and

the vast majority of scholars so much so

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