Sri Lanka Zakat al-Fitr (Fitrah) Calculator

Zakat al-Fitr (also called Fitrah or Sadaqat al-Fitr) is a fixed charity of food that the head of a household gives on behalf of every member at the end of Ramadan, before the Eid al-Fitr prayer. It is separate from the yearly 2.5% wealth Zakat: Fitrah is a small, equal amount per person, not a percentage of savings.

The obligation in the Sunnah is one saa'of the local staple per person. A saa' is an old volume measure — about four double-handfuls — so its weight depends on the grain. For Sri Lanka, the All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama (ACJU), the country's apex theological body, standardises one saa' as 2.5 kg of riceper person. Some communities follow a half-saa' wheat basis of about 1.6 kg; this calculator offers both as selectable measures, with 2.5 kg of rice as the default.

The calculation is deliberately simple and transparent:

1. Total rice weight = number of household members × the per-person measure. A family of five at 2.5 kg each owes 12.5 kg of rice.
2. Cash equivalent = total rice weight × price per kg. ACJU permits paying the money value of the staple at the prevailing local price, following the Hanafi position widely practised here. The price defaults from the Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) weekly retail bulletin and is editable so it stays current between refreshes.
3. Rounding — the rice weight is exact to 0.1 kg, and the cash figure is rounded up to the nearest Rs 10. Charity is always rounded up so the recipient is never short.

The tool cross-checks the cash total two ways: once by valuing the whole household's rice at once, and once by valuing a single person's saa' and multiplying by the head count. For the ACJU rice measure both routes agree to the rupee, which is the credibility check shown on the card. The deadline is a rule, not a computation: Fitrah must reach the recipient before the Eid al-Fitr prayer, and giving it in the last days of Ramadan is encouraged so mosques can distribute it in time. Who may receive it — the poor and needy — follows the same categories as ordinary Zakat; this tool focuses on the amount, not distribution.

Rounding edge case: 3 people paying at an odd price of Rs 221/kg owe 7.5 kg × Rs 221 = Rs 1,657.50, which rounds up to Rs 1,660 — never down to Rs 1,650.

• All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama (ACJU) — Theology division
• All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama — official site (annual Fitrah ruling)
• Consumer Affairs Authority of Sri Lanka — weekly retail price bulletins
• Department of Census and Statistics — average retail rice prices

The 2.5 kg per-person measure follows the ACJU standard for Sri Lanka; the default rice prices were last cross-checked against the CAA bulletin on 2026-07-13. The measure is reviewed each Ramadan and prices are kept editable so the cash figure stays accurate between refreshes.