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Sister Somaiya from Doha Qatar emails and she says that she owns a lot of gold jewellery and

that she uses some of the jewellery

weekly and some of it she uses very rarely and

and she is confused about whether she has to give Zakat on this jewellery or not

Now

This question dear sister is one of the

Classical questions of Islamic faith and law every single student of knowledge and every single scholar is going to spend quite a

Lot of time studying this issue because this controversy erupted not in my time

Not in your time not in the generation before it erupted in the generation of the companions themselves

And we have major companions on both sides of this issue and all of the books of Philk have chapters about this

And the four schools developed arguments and counter arguments and we find obviously I mean to be simplistic

We'll say there are two opinions in reality

There are some nuances and the one opinion but for simplicity simplicity say let's just say there are two opinions

Obviously one opinion is you give Zakat the other opinion is you do not give a Zakat

So there are two opinions and I will go into who said what but before I do that

I want to keep on bringing up the issue of methodology the issue of why am I doing it this way and

You know why am I going into all of the different opinions and then you know explaining them

I do so primarily primarily so that we learn to tolerate and respect

So that whatever opinion we choose

We do not demonize or criminalize somebody who follows another legitimate opinion

So what are you going to do when

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