My Zakat Tool is a free website that helps Muslims calculate zakat according to their own school of thought, with today’s gold and silver rate built in.
Why we built it
Most zakat calculators follow one view only and ask you to look up the gold rate yourself. Many Muslims follow a different madhab, and the answer can change a lot, especially for jewellery and debts. We wanted one calculator that shows every school’s answer with its source, in plain language, in English and Urdu.
Who is behind it: Ali Ahmad
The site is made and maintained by Ali Ahmad, its founder and editor (LinkedIn). He designed the calculators, writes the guides, and checks every rule against the published fatwas and classical texts listed on the methodology page before it goes live.
He started the site after finding that most zakat calculators follow one madhab only and leave the gold rate to the user, while Muslims follow different schools and the answer for jewellery and debts changes a lot between them. The same gap led to the wirasat calculator: dividing an estate by hand is where families most often go wrong.
Ali Ahmad is not a scholar or a mufti, and the site does not issue fatwas. Each rule names its source; where we found no specific source, the methodology page says the point is our reading. The rules are open to correction: write to contact@myzakattool.com and every correction is dated in the change list.
What you will find here
- A zakat calculator with a version for each school: Hanafi, Shafi’i, Maliki, Hanbali, Ahl-e-Hadith and Shia (Ja’fari), and a side-by-side comparison.
- Tools for fitrana, fidya and kaffara, your zakat date, ushr and livestock and khums, plus a free nisab widget for mosque websites.
- Family tools: the haq mehr calculator, the diyat calculator and the wirasat (inheritance) calculator with a family tree for all six madhabs.
- Today’s nisab and gold rate in about 50 currencies, and guides to common questions.
- Pages in Urdu, starting with the Urdu zakat calculator.
How we choose the rules
For each school we use rulings that are published and can be checked: fatwas from institutions such as Darul Uloom Deoband, the Saudi Permanent Committee as quoted by IslamQA, the Mufti offices of Malaysia and Singapore, classical texts such as al-Hidayah, al-Majmu’ and Akhsar al-Mukhtasarat, and Ayatollah Sistani’s Islamic Laws. Where we could not find a specific source for a rule, the methodology page says it is our reading. Where scholars within a school disagree, the calculator shows a note rather than hiding the difference, and the open questions are listed publicly.
What we are not
We are not scholars and we do not issue fatwas. The site has not yet been reviewed by a scholar on our behalf; when it is, the reviewer’s name will appear on every page. The calculator gives an estimate from published rulings, and for your own situation you should ask a qualified scholar of your school.
Corrections
When a reader or our own checks find a mistake, we fix it and record the change with its date in the methodology page’s change list, and say whether any calculation result changed. Every page shows the date it was last updated.
How the site is funded
The site is free. It may show a small number of clearly marked advertisements. We do not collect zakat or donations, and we never see the numbers you enter: every calculation runs in your own browser.
Contact
Found an error or have a suggestion? Email contact@myzakattool.com or see the contact page.