{"id":765,"date":"2011-07-20T21:23:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T19:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=765"},"modified":"2020-02-25T14:52:18","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T12:52:18","slug":"q-is-zakaat-waajib-upon-life-insurance-which-matures-after-the-death-of-the-policy-holder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=765","title":{"rendered":"Zakaat on Life Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> Is zakaat fardh upon life insurance which matures after the death of the policy holder?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/muftionline.co.za\/sites\/default\/files\/pictures\/bismillah.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>A:<\/strong> Zakaat is not fardh upon wealth received from the insurance company after the demise of the policy holder. However, if the wealth was received during his lifetime, then he is obligated to pay zakaat of the current year as well as the previous years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Note:<\/strong> \u00a0It is impermissible for a believer to involve himself in any insurance policy as the elements of gambling and interest are found. If a person has taken out an insurance policy of any kind, then he should sincerely repent and cancel the contract. Similarly it is only permissible for one to claim the amount he has paid the insurance company. 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A: Zakaat is not fardh upon wealth received from the insurance company after the demise of the policy holder. However, if the wealth was received during his lifetime, then he is obligated to pay zakaat of the current year &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,53,613],"tags":[13,418],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-masaail","category-zakaat","category-zakaat-on-payouts-from-various-funds","tag-qa","tag-zakaat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14952,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/14952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}