If a wife has gold jewelery, who is liable to pay zakat on it, husband or wife. The wife owns that gold but she is not working.

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Shaykh Ebrahim Desai

Answer:

In principle, the Zakaat is due on the wife. However, the husband may pay her Zakaat with her consent.

And Allah Taãla Knows Best.

Was salaam

Mufti Ebrahim Desai
FATWA DEPT.

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