Your wealth, your zakat
Zakat for Muslim women
A woman pays zakat on what she owns. Here is how to work it out, from your gold to your savings.
Zakat guides for Muslim women
Zakat in four numbers
- 2.5% of zakatable wealth, once a lunar year Sahih al-Bukhari 1454
- 87.48 g of gold, the nisab Sunan Abi Dawud 1573
- 612.36 g of silver, the nisab Sunan Abi Dawud 1573
- 8 kinds of people who may receive it Quran 9:60
A woman pays her own zakat
On what she owns. Zakat is a pillar of Islam (Sahih al-Bukhari 8), and it falls due on a woman’s own wealth: her savings, her gold and silver, her investments and her mahr once she has it (Quran 4:4). Her husband’s wealth is his to pay on. Start with our step-by-step guide, or go straight to DonateOpenly’s zakat calculator, which uses today’s gold and silver prices.
DonateOpenly’s guide to paying zakat in 2027 follows each pound from you to the people it reaches.
Giving it where you can follow it
Zakat kept for zakat. DonateOpenly’s zakat page keeps zakat for the causes it may go to and shows each gift on its open ledger, and its zakat 2027 guide sets out this year’s dates and figures.