A special coverage conducted by Youm7 TV about the Dar Al Iftaa’s announcement that the value of zakat al-Fitr for this year is 15 pounds as a minimum per person, and the house clarified how to calculate the value of zakat al-Fitr, through a publication that included a simple and accessible method, and in colloquial language is also easy and simple, as follows::
We calculated it on the wheat from which we make a living that all the people in Egypt eat.
Ok, the price of an ardeb of wheat is 900 pounds.
And the ardeb is 150 km.
The price of a kilo remains 6 pounds.
Ok, and what is zakat?… a saa’ of wheat.
Ok, a saa’ is equal to how many kilos that came out, equal to 2.04 kilos.
Let’s multiply 2.04 kilos by 6.
The output is 12.24 pounds.
And Dar Al Iftaa said that it was 15 pounds.
I mean, we also provide more than the price, so that the prices differ in the ardeb.
And 15 pounds is the minimum.. it means that you get more than 15 pounds if you have and your income allows you.
But the one who will not be able to do so, the minimum thing that he needs to know about the individual is 15 pounds.
And you go out before the counting prayer.
It is permissible to take it out from the first day of Ramadan.