Is there any zakah
    to be paid on a student grant?
Question

                Assalamualaikum wr. wbr.First of all may I introduce my self, I am Desrial from XXX, and now I am
      studying in XXX. I have one question to you. Would you please tell me, how about my
      obligatory to pay zakat, since that I am the student, and I have no salary. But I have
      scholarship from Govt. of Japan. Is it necessary to pay zakat or not?Thank you fery much for your kindly help and attention.
Praise be to Allah.Zakaah is obligatory on four kinds of wealth: agricultural produce
    (grains, fruits, etc.); freely-grazing livestock and cattle; gold and silver (and their
    equivalents in modern currencies and bank-notes) – the zakaah on which is 2.5%; and
    trade goods.
Seeing that the money you have is in the form of paper currency paid to
    you as a grant from the Japanese government, the easiest way for you with regard to paying
    zakaah in this case is: wait until after one hijri year has passed, then check your bank
    and pay 2.5% (twenty-five out of every thousand) from whatever you have. But if you are
    living hand to mouth, as it were (i.e., spending it all straightaway), and you do not have
    enough left to reach the level of the nisaab, and a year has passed, then you are not
    obliged to pay zakaah in this case. And Allaah knows best.
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