Nisab Today in AUD

Gold nisab by karat in AUD

Nisab is 85 g of pure gold. Jewellery is alloyed, so the weight you need depends on the karat — the local standard in Australian Dollar is 18K.

Spot metal value at 2026-09-27; shop prices add making charges and tax. Zakat itself is 2.5% of the value once you are above nisab.

Nisab for Muslims in Australia

Australian jewellery is often 9K (only 37.5% pure) and 18K, so weight alone says little about gold content; investment gold is 24K from the Perth Mint. Convert each piece by purity before comparing with nisab. Australian zakat bodies publish the figure in dollars. Nisab is measured in pure gold, and jewellery is never pure: multiply each piece's weight by its karat's purity (0.9167 for 22K, 0.875 for 21K, 0.75 for 18K, 0.585 for 14K) before comparing the total with 85 grams. The karat table above gives today's per-gram value of each karat in your currency for a quick valuation.

The zakat year

The zakat year (hawl) is lunar — about 354 days, not 365. Fixing one Hijri date each year (many people use Ramadan) keeps the calculation consistent; paying on a Gregorian anniversary drifts eleven days later every year.

Common situations for zakat payers in Australia

Superannuation is the Australian question. Super is locked until preservation age, and the common view among Australian scholars is that it is not zakatable until it becomes accessible, at which point the accessible balance is zakated; a minority say to pay on the zakatable proportion each year. Bank savings, shares held for trading and gold are zakatable now.

Australian jewellery is often 9K, which is only 37.5% gold, so weight badly overstates content; convert by purity.

Where Australian Muslims pay zakat

National Zakat Foundation Australia, Islamic Relief Australia, Human Appeal and others; direct payment is valid. Zakat to a registered deductible-gift-recipient charity is tax-deductible.

How to use these numbers

If your zakatable wealth in Australian Dollar — cash in AUD, gold and silver, money owed to you, and business inventory — stays at or above the nisab for one full lunar year, zakat of 2.5% is due. Most scholars recommend checking against the lower silver figure (1,753 AUD today) so that zakat reaches more people.

Calculate exactly what you owe with the zakat calculator, value gold by weight and karat with zakat on gold, or see today's gold price in Australia.

Nisab in other currencies

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