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How much gold is 1 Ashrafi according to Fatwa 606/306/L=1433?

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Please advise me that how many gram is = 1 Ashrafi normally? We feel 8 grams is equal to 1 Ashrafi but your (Fatwa: 606/306/L=1433) shows that it is 4 gram and 374 milligram gold. Kindly clarify the same?

Answer

(Fatwa: 1252/L=467/TL=1433)

The word Dinar which is mentioned in books its weight is what we wrote in our previous fatwa. Hadhrat Mufti Mahmood Hasan Gangohi (رحمة الله عليه) writes in Fatawa Mahmoodia: “Dinar Surkh [Red Dinar] is Ashrafi” while he writes on another place that the weight of Dinar Surkh and Ashrafi is 4.5 masha the same weight is of mithqal. (Fatawa Mahmoodia: 12/40/41). It is mentioned in Fatawa Darul Uloom Deoband “Dinar and mithqal are same and the weight of Dinar is 4.5 masha. (Fatawa Darul Uloom: 8/254)
Hadhrat Mufti Shafi (رحمة الله عليه) writes “In short, one Dinar is equal to 20 carat and one carat is equal to 5 barleys, hence one Dinar is equal to 100 barleys, and 100 barleys are equal to 4.5 masha. One masha is 972 milligram then four masha are equal to 3.888 gram and half masha is 486 milligram then the total of 4.5 masha is 4 gram and 374 milligram i.e. 4.374 (al-Auzan al-Mahmooda: 70)
والمثقال هو الدينار عشرون قيراطاً والدراهم أربعة عشر قيراطاً والقيرا خمس شعيرات كذا فى التبيین (عالمگیری: 1/179)
However, if in your area Ashrafi is equal to 8 gram and you intended the same in your mahr then you will have to pay as per that Ashrafi.

Allah (Subhana Wa Ta’ala) knows Best

Darul Ifta,
Darul Uloom Deoband

This answer was collected from the official ifta website of Darul Uloom Deoband in India.

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