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Zakat Book

Your assets

One standing list of what you own, grouped into cards with a total each. You keep it as things change, and every zakat year takes a copy of it when you freeze that year.

What this screen shows

Assets (asaasay) is your standing list of what you own. It is not tied to any one year: you keep it as things change, and each zakat year takes its own copy when you freeze it. That copy never moves again, so an old year stays exactly as you settled it while this list goes on being current.

At the top, Worth today adds up everything you own right now. A loan you took is a debt rather than wealth, so it is left out of that figure.

Getting there

  1. Open Zakat from the home screen.
  2. Tap the box icon in the top bar.

The cards

Your assets are grouped, and each card shows how many things are in it and what they come to together:

  • Cash & bank — cash in hand and your bank accounts
  • Foreign currency — riyals, dirhams, dollars
  • Gold — jewellery and Gold — investment — kept apart, because they are priced differently (see Gold)
  • Loans & udhaar — both directions in one card. Money owed to you counts as wealth; money you owe comes off it. The card shows the two added together, so a card in red means you owe more than you are owed.
  • Shares & committee — your share of something held jointly
  • Business stock — your stock at cost
  • Property

A card only appears when you have something in it. Tap one to see its things and to change any of them.

LIVE and TYPED

Every row tells you where its figure comes from, which is the difference between a number you can trust and one you have to remember to update.

  • LIVE means your own books keep it current. Someone repays you today and this figure moves today. You never re-type it. Your customers and lenders, cash in hand, stock and properties all work this way.
  • TYPED means you entered it by hand, so it only changes when you change it. The row shows the date you last touched it, so a figure going stale is visible instead of quietly looking correct.

A typed loan offers Link. Tap it, pick the contact, and that row becomes LIVE from then on — it starts following your books and stops needing your attention.

Adding and changing things

+ at the top of this screen asks what kind of thing you are adding, because from here it really could be anything.

+ inside a card is different: it only offers what belongs in that card. Inside Cash & bank you get cash in hand and bank, and nothing else. That way a new row always turns up in the card you were standing in.

Business stock has no + at all. Those rows come from your own books, and typing one by hand would count the same stock twice.

Adding a property also creates it in your property list, since a property here is just a name — no money moves.

Looking at one thing

Tapping a row opens it read-only: the amount, what kind it is, any note, and the date you last touched it. Edit and Delete are in the menu at the top.

It opens read-only on purpose. Saving the edit form on a LIVE row unlinks it from your books, so that has to be something you choose, not something a stray tap can do.

A LIVE row has no Edit. It offers Unlink and type my own figure instead, which says out loud what saving would have done quietly.

Where you recorded what you paid for something, its screen also shows whether it is up or down against what it is worth today. Cash and loans have no such line — a rupee costs a rupee, and a loan is repaid at face value.

Changing a value changes it everywhere it is still current. It does not reach back into a year you have already frozen; that year kept its own copy.

Sold and closed things

Something you mark sold or repaid moves to a Sold / closed section inside its card, tagged SOLD. It is never deleted — an old year that counted it has to stay explainable.

Starting off

The first time you open this screen it is empty. If you have already entered assets inside a zakat year, it offers to start from that year's list. Anything your own books already supply is left unticked, because those arrive on their own and stay up to date — copying them too would give you each one twice.