Fatwaa.net - Fatawa | If a person earns income from buying properties and renting them out, such as purchasing commercial residential buildings and leasing them, and he does not intend to sell them but uses this as his investment method, buying another property whenever he accumulates an amount from these properties, and in this way he usually does not have cash amounts that he can apply the lunar year on, is he obligated to pay zakat?

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24 / 06 / 2026

Zakat on Rented Properties

Question

If a person earns income from buying properties and renting them out, such as purchasing commercial residential buildings and leasing them, and he does not intend to sell them but uses this as his investment method, buying another property whenever he accumulates an amount from these properties, and in this way he usually does not have cash amounts that he can apply the lunar year on, is he obligated to pay zakat?

Answer

I say, and with God's success: Zakat is not obligatory on the properties themselves, but rather it is obligatory on the wealth produced by the properties if it reaches the threshold along with other owned wealth and a year has passed on it, because zakat is on trade wealth, not on rental income, and God knows best.

Zakat on Rented Properties

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