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Is it permissible to give 57% of one's savings monthly as charity, such that only 43% remains of what might be subject to Zakat, and is it permissible to give all of one's savings as charity such that nothing remains that is subject to Zakat?

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It is not obligatory to save money and accumulate the (minimum amount) for the sake of . Rather, zakat becomes obligatory if the nisab is reached and a full year has passed over it. The scholar Al-Uthaymeen clarified that accumulating money for zakat is not obligatory, because that by which an obligation is not completed is not itself obligatory. However, paying zakat becomes obligatory when a full year has passed over the nisab.

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