Khums Calculator
Enter what is left at your Khums date, subtract the capital already khums-paid and this year's living-expense debts, and get the 20% due — split into the two shares. Everything stays on your device.
Cash, bank balances, and anything bought this year and not yet used — food, clothes, gifts, unopened goods.
Follows the rulings of Sayyid Ali al-Sistani (Islamic Laws, chapter on Khums; Minhaj as-Salihin). Business capital, land, mines, treasure and mixed lawful-unlawful wealth are special cases — ask your Marja‘’s office. Nothing you type leaves your device.
About Khums
Khums is the fifth (20%) that Allah commands in Quran 8:41. In Ithna-ashari fiqh it is due every year on the surplus of one's earnings — whatever is left after the year's living expenses — and on a few other kinds of wealth such as mines, treasure and lawful wealth mixed with unlawful.
Everything left at your Khums date that came from this year's income and was not spent on living: cash and bank balances, unused food and goods, gifts not used, and savings. Capital on which Khums was already paid is deducted, as are debts taken for the year's living expenses.
Half is Sahm al-Imam (a), paid to the Marja‘ you follow or to his authorised representative, who spends it on religious education and the needs of the community. Half is Sahm as-Sadat, given to poor and pious descendants of the Prophet ﷺ, either directly or through the Marja‘.
No. In Ja‘fari fiqh Zakat is obligatory on nine specific items — gold and silver coin, wheat, barley, dates, raisins, camels, cattle and sheep — while Khums is due on the yearly surplus of income. Most Muslims in Madagascar owe Khums every year and Zakat only if they own those items.