Issue 959: When wheat or barely is separated from the chuff, and when dates and grapes are being dried, the Zakat must be paid or separated from the property; as for gold, silver, camels, cows, and sheep, the Zakat must be paid or separated form such properties when the twelve-month period of ownership of them is over; however, after the Zakat is separated from their property, they can keep it for sometime (even for some months) if they are willing to wait until they can pay it to a certain poor person or to a poor person who, in some way, takes precedence over others.

Issue 960: It is not necessary to pay the Zakat to the poor immediately after it is separated from one’s property; however, if there is someone who deserves to receive it, it is a recommended precaution to pay it and not postpone it.

Issue 961: If a person separates the Zakat from their property, they can take possession of the rest of the property, and if they separate the Zakat from their other property, they can take possession of their entire property afterwards.

Issue 962: It is not permissible to use Zakat which one has separated from their property and then replace it with some other property.

Issue 963: One may take the Zakat of their property to some other town to give it to the poor despite knowing that there are some deserving poor people in their own hometown, but they will have to pay the expenses of this transfer out of their property and not out of the Zakat, and if doing this the Zakat is lost, they will be liable, unless they do this with the permission of a qualified religious jurist.

Issue 964: One who is obliged to pay, out of their property, Zakat, Khums, Kaffara, as well as for their vows, covenants and the like while being in debt, and if they cannot afford to pay all of them, there will be two possible assumptions: If the property (on which Zakat is obligatory) is not lost, they must pay the Zakat as well as Khums, and if the property is lost, they can pay any of the above-mentioned liabilities.