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Nisab Checker

This tool compares an amount with the selected Nisab threshold.

It does not determine whether all conditions for Zakat are met. Hawl and a complete asset portfolio are intentionally outside this comparison.
Comparison inputs
No basis, profile, or price is selected automatically.

All monetary amounts must be entered in the selected currency. Changing currency does not convert values.

USD

Select the basis you intend to use. No option is presented as universally preferred.

Enter and verify the metal price
Gold and silver prices are entered manually. The website does not automatically retrieve a current market price. Independently verify the price, currency, unit, source, and timestamp you use. Results are estimates, and Zakat treatment can depend on personal circumstances and qualified scholarly guidance.

What this tool does

Answers one question: does the amount you enter reach the Nisab threshold? It deliberately stops there and returns no payable figure.

When to use it

  • You want to know whether you are in scope at all before working through a full calculation.
  • You are comparing how the same wealth sits against a gold threshold versus a silver one.
  • You are tracking a balance through the year to see whether it stays above the threshold.

How the figure is produced

  1. You enter the amount to test and choose a Nisab basis.
  2. For a metal basis, the threshold is the profile weight (85g or 87.48g of gold, 595g or 612.36g of silver) multiplied by the per-gram price you supply.
  3. For a manual basis, the threshold is the amount you type, used exactly as given.
  4. Your amount is compared against that threshold and reported as at or above, or below.

Worked example

Someone tests 6,000 against a gold basis at 75.00 per gram, and then against a silver basis at 0.90 per gram.

Amount tested
6,000.00
Gold threshold (85 g × 75.00)
6,375.00
Result against gold
Below Nisab
Silver threshold (595 g × 0.90)
535.50
Result against silver
At or above Nisab

The same wealth falls on opposite sides of the two thresholds. This is expected, not an error, and it is why the basis has to be chosen deliberately rather than left to a default.

Assumptions built in

  • The amount you enter is already net of anything you intend to exclude — the checker does not subtract liabilities.
  • The per-gram price and the amount are in the same currency.
  • The comparison is a simple threshold test on unrounded values.

Limitations

  • Reaching Nisab on one day is not the whole test. Zakat also depends on Hawl — holding wealth across a lunar year — which this checker does not model.
  • No price is fetched, cached, or supplied for you. The figure used is the one you type, so the result is only as current as the price you sourced and the moment you sourced it.
  • The four supported profiles reflect commonly used weight standards. The checker does not rank them or tell you which applies to you.

How this differs from the related tools

  • Main Zakat Calculator

    Carries on past the threshold test to produce an estimated amount across all your assets and liabilities.

  • Zakat Nisab explained

    Explains where the weight standards come from and why more than one is in common use.

Learn before calculating

Review the relevant metal concepts, then return with a verified weight, unit, purity, and valuation basis.

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