Awqaf Ministry launches Zakat calculator service

Zakat Fund run by the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs has launched zakat calculator service. The new service enables users to calculate zakat amount in their cash, shares, gold and silver within few seconds.

The service available at the link has been shared by the Zakat Fund on its Twitter account. For calculating zakat in cash, the user is required to first choose Islamic or Gregorian calendar then put the amount they want to give zakat. Name of company and number of shares are required to calculate zakat in shares. To calculate zakat in gold and silver, the users need to put wight of gold and silvers in grams. The new service of Zakat Fund is not only helped in calculating zakat but it also gives option to users to donate their zakat amount to the Fund by making online transaction.