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Zakat and purification
Should I use the gold or the silver nisab?
Answered by the ShariaQuant team
The gold nisab is 85 grams and the silver nisab is 595 grams, and they give very different thresholds at today's prices. Using silver sets a lower bar, which means more people owe zakat and more of it reaches the poor, and that is the position most contemporary scholars favour for cash and trade goods.
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