Zakat Threshold

Question
Whoever possesses the zakat threshold (85 grams of gold) and a year has passed, it is obligatory for him to pay zakat. However, he has not reached the threshold of deprivation (100 grams). Should he pay zakat on his threshold, and at the same time receive from zakat because he has not reached the threshold of deprivation?
Answer
I say, and with God's success: The intended amount for deprivation is the amount of deprivation from receiving zakat, which is an amount of 100 grams of furniture and an empty apartment, free from essential needs, and it is not estimated in obligation at 85 grams, and in deprivation at 100 grams, rather the amount is one of them; due to the differences in estimates based on one of them, and there is no harm in relying on either, but the common practice among the people of the Levant is 100 grams, which is what Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Ayoun Al-Sud, the Mufti of Homs, has ruled, and God knows best.
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