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Zakat is required to be paid by those who own wealth for a minimum of 85g pure gold or 595g pure silver or money equivalent to this gold/silver for one full year. Accordingly, they pay 2.5 % of what he/she owns of gold/silver or money to the poor people.



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in Islam the husband must pay money for his wife so can't be zakat

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