CSS · Federal Public Service Commission · 2027
25 solved Zakat MCQs with verified answers and explanations — cattle, camel and goat nisab, gold (85 g) and silver (595 g) nisab, 2.5% rate, crop ushr 5%/10%, trade goods and the eight asnaf. A CSS MPT 2027 focus-topic practice set, not a past paper.
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A 25-item Zakat practice set from the Sir Adnan booklet headed 'CSS MPT 2027 Focus Topics Zakat — ONE-LINER (Originally Taken from CSS MPT 2026 PAPER)' (monster-data 'CSS MPT PAST PAPERS' pack). The booklet prints Q30-60; 25 items are published here in the standard MCQ format with verified answers and explanations, the source printing answers only, so the 3 distractors per item are authored under Anas's 2026-10-28 single-format decision and optionsSource is recorded as 'authored'. This is a focus-topic practice set, labelled as practice in the title, slug and paperType — it is NOT a past paper, and the year 2027 is the booklet's focus-topic label, not a claimed exam session.
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14 solved MCQs shown directly below
Correct Answer: 30 or more cows
The nisab (minimum) for cattle is 30 animals; below 30 cows no Zakat is due.
Correct Answer: Annually, after one lunar year of possession
Zakat on livestock is due once a lunar year (hawl) has passed over a nisab herd.
Correct Answer: 5 camels
The nisab for camels is 5; for 5-9 camels the due Zakat is 1 sheep.
Correct Answer: 1 two-year-old cow
For 40-59 cows the due animal is a musinnah, a cow two years old (hadith of Mu'adh ibn Jabal, Sunan Abi Dawud). CORRECTION: the booklet prints '1 one-year-old cow' for 40 cows, but the standard cattle schedule gives a musinnah (two-year-old cow) for 40-59 cows; the booklet's own Q35 states the same 40-59 rule correctly.
Correct Answer: 40 or more
The nisab for sheep and goats is 40 animals; below 40 no Zakat is due.
Correct Answer: 1 two-year-old cow
For 40-59 cows the due animal is a musinnah (two-year-old cow); for 30-39 it is a tabi' (one-year-old calf).
Correct Answer: Number and age of camels
The camel schedule is tiered by herd size, with the due animal's age rising at each tier (sheep for 5-24, then young she-camels of increasing age).
Correct Answer: Not obligatory
Below the nisab of 30 cattle, no Zakat is due at all.
Correct Answer: One of the Zakat categories under 'An'am' (cattle)
Grazing livestock (an'am) — camels, cattle, and sheep/goats — form one of the zakatable wealth categories.
Correct Answer: Kind (the animal itself) or its monetary equivalent
Livestock Zakat is prescribed as specific animals, but paying the monetary value of the due animal is accepted practice.
Correct Answer: Are used for personal work and not for breeding
Zakat applies to grazing (sa'imah) herds kept for breeding or milk; animals used for labour or transport are exempt.
Correct Answer: 1 goat
For a flock of 40-120 sheep/goats the due Zakat is 1 animal; 2 animals are due only from 121 (Sahih al-Bukhari 1454). CORRECTION: the booklet prints '2 goats' for 70 goats, but the standard sheep/goat schedule gives 1 goat for a flock of 40-120; 2 goats are due only from 121 animals.
Correct Answer: 1 sheep
For the first camel tier (5-9 camels) the due Zakat is 1 sheep; 10-14 camels give 2 sheep.
Correct Answer: After completing one year of ownership
A lunar year of ownership (hawl) must pass over a nisab herd before its Zakat falls due.
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Correct Answer: 85 grams or more (nisab)
The gold nisab is 20 mithqal, given in Pakistani textbooks as 85 grams (the 7.5-tola equivalent is about 87.5 g).
Correct Answer: 595 grams or more (nisab)
The silver nisab is 200 dirhams, given in textbooks as 595 grams.
Correct Answer: 2.5% annually
Monetary wealth (gold, silver, cash, trade goods) is charged at 2.5% (one-fortieth) per lunar year.
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2 solved MCQs shown directly below
Correct Answer: The harvest reaches the nisab (approx. 612 kg)
The crop nisab is 5 wasq; the booklet's approximate conversion of 612 kg is retained (the figure converts to roughly 612-653 kg depending on the sa' weight used).
Correct Answer: Either 5% (irrigated) or 10% (rain-fed) of the produce
Rain-fed (naturally watered) crops pay one-tenth (ushr, 10%) and artificially irrigated crops pay half of that (5%).
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2 solved MCQs shown directly below
Correct Answer: Assets reach the nisab after one lunar year
Trade goods are charged like cash: once their value reaches the nisab and a lunar year passes, 2.5% is due.
Correct Answer: Merchandise, cash and receivables
Stock-in-trade, cash in hand and recoverable debts count toward the trade-goods nisab; personal-use items do not.
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4 solved MCQs shown directly below
Correct Answer: Five pillars of Islam
Zakat is the third pillar of Islam, after the Shahadah and Salah.
Correct Answer: One lunar year
The hawl — one complete lunar year of ownership — is a condition for Zakat on monetary wealth and livestock.
Correct Answer: Eight categories of eligible recipients (Asnaf)
Qur'an 9:60 lists eight categories (asnaf): the poor, the needy, those employed on it, those whose hearts are to be reconciled, freeing captives, debtors, in the way of Allah, and the wayfarer.
Correct Answer: Purification of wealth and soul
Zakat literally means purification and growth: it purifies the giver's wealth and heart.
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No. This is a focus-topic practice set from a Sir Adnan booklet headed 'CSS MPT 2027 Focus Topics Zakat', which says its one-liners were originally taken from the CSS MPT 2026 paper. It is labelled as practice in the title, slug and paperType, and the year 2027 is the booklet's label, not a claimed exam session.
Printed Q40 (the plural of 'Faiz' in Zakat terminology) was dropped because the tested term is not identifiable as a standard Zakat term, and Q49, Q55, Q56, Q57 and Q58 were dropped as internal duplicates of Q36, Q45, Q45, Q42 and Q41 respectively. Nothing was invented to replace them, and the drops are recorded in the sourceNote.
Yes, two, both flagged in keyFlag: printed Q33 (40 cows) is corrected from '1 one-year-old cow' to '1 two-year-old cow' (the 40-59 band gives a musinnah), and printed Q50 (70 goats) is corrected from '2 goats' to '1 goat' (the 40-120 band gives 1 animal; 2 are due only from 121). Both corrections follow the standard Prophetic livestock schedules.
The source prints statement + answer only, with no (a)-(d) options. Under Anas's 2026-10-28 single-format decision, each item is published in the standard MCQ format with 3 authored plausible distractors; the questions and answers are the booklet's (corrected only where flagged), and every answer was verified as the standard answer. optionsSource is recorded as 'authored' so authored options are never mistaken for the paper's.
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