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Nisab today

The nisab is the minimum wealth on which zakat is due: the value of a set weight of gold or silver. Here it is today in your currency, from live prices. Silver gives the lower threshold.

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Why the nisab changes every day

The nisab was set as 20 gold dinars or 200 silver dirhams. Those weights do not change, but the price of gold and silver does, so the nisab in pounds, dollars or lira moves with the metal markets. It is worth checking on your zakat date rather than reusing last year's figure.

Gold or silver

The silver nisab is far lower than the gold nisab, because silver is much cheaper. Zaytuna College treats both as valid and calls silver the safer approach, since it does not leave out anyone who may owe zakat. Under the gold standard, many more people fall below the threshold.

Why sites show different figures

Bodies convert the old weights differently: the National Zakat Foundation uses 87.48 g of gold and 612.36 g of silver, Zaytuna College about 85 g and 595 g, and Diyanet 80.18 g and 561.2 g as cited from its handbook. Prices differ too. The National Zakat Foundation, for example, adjusts the market price towards a real-world selling price. This page uses the unadjusted market price and shows the time it was taken.

Using the nisab

Add up your zakatable wealth, take off the debts you are allowed to deduct, and compare the result with the nisab on your zakat date. If it equals or exceeds the nisab, and you have held it for a lunar year, zakat is 2.5% of it.

Questions

What is the nisab today?

It depends on the price of gold and silver today and on which weights you use. The table above works it out live in your currency for the National Zakat Foundation, Zaytuna College and Diyanet weights.

Which nisab should I use, gold or silver?

Both are valid. Zaytuna College calls the silver standard the safer approach because its threshold is lower, so it does not miss anyone who may owe zakat.

Why is my nisab different from another website?

Sites use different weights (87.48 g, 85 g or 80.18 g of gold; 612.36 g, 595 g or 561.2 g of silver) and different prices. Some adjust the market price, as the National Zakat Foundation does. Check which weights and price a site states.

When does the nisab matter?

On your zakat date. If your net zakatable wealth equals or exceeds the nisab that day, and you have held it for a lunar year, 2.5% is due.

Prices: gold-api.com. Rates By Exchange Rate API. See sources and method.