Reviewed educational resources
Islamic Finance Academy
Build a clear foundation in Zakat concepts through original, source-reviewed guides that separate educational explanation, calculator arithmetic, and questions requiring qualified personal guidance.
How the Academy is organised
The Academy holds the site's long-form explanations — the articles you read once to understand a concept, as opposed to the Knowledge Hub, which answers one narrow question per page, and the Comparison Center, which puts two commonly confused ideas side by side.
If you are new to Zakat, start with the three foundation articles in order: what Zakat is, who must pay it, and who can receive it. The remaining articles are reference reading — open the one that matches the asset actually in front of you (gold, salary, shares, pension, or crypto) rather than reading front to back. Every article states where recognised scholarly positions differ instead of presenting one view as settled, and each one links to the calculator that turns its concepts into an estimate.
Zakat foundations
What Is Zakat?
Understand Zakat as a form of worship connected with eligible wealth, transparent thresholds, timing, and qualified guidance.
Who Must Pay Zakat?
Learn the general questions used to assess Zakat responsibility, including ownership, Nisab, Hawl, and personal circumstances.
Who Can Receive Zakat?
Review the Quranic foundation for Zakat recipient categories and why eligibility should be verified carefully.
Giving and public systems
Assets and income
Zakat on Gold
Learn how ownership, weight, purity context, price, Nisab, Hawl, liabilities, and jewellery treatment affect a gold Zakat estimate.
Zakat on Salary
Understand the distinction between salary income and accumulated savings retained from salary for a Zakat estimate.
Zakat on Shares
Review how ownership intention, market value, underlying Zakatable assets, Nisab, and Hawl may affect shares.
Zakat on Pension
Learn why pension access, ownership, contribution structure, underlying assets, and withdrawal rights require careful review.
Zakat on Crypto
Review ownership, control, valuation, purpose, liquidity, Nisab, Hawl, and uncertainty when estimating Zakat on crypto assets.