Answered by Mufti Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari Question: I just starting working this year (at the end of July 2003) and I have accumulated about $5500 (USD) before taxes and maybe $4400 after taxes. I thought that if one accumulated $1000 (USD) or more in a year then zakah would be obligatory on them. And considering that I earned more than $1000, I paid 2.5% from what I received on my pay checks and paid that this morning as “zakah al fitr.” It came to $110. After I had already given the money (before the Eid salat) , I was…