Fitrana, Fidya & Kaffara Calculator
Sadaqat al-Fitr, compensation for missed fasts, and expiation for broken fasts — CII's Ramadan 2026 figures
Frequently Asked Questions
Fitrana (Sadaqat al-Fitr) is a per-person obligation paid before Eid al-Fitr prayer, distinct from Zakat in both timing and calculation basis — it's pegged to the value of a staple food commodity rather than a percentage of wealth, and its amount is announced fresh each Ramadan.
Why the amount changes every year, and why it's commodity-based
Fitrana's value is traditionally expressed as a fixed quantity of a staple foodstuff — commonly wheat, though other commodities (dates, barley, raisins) are also recognized bases with their own historically-set quantities — converted to today's rupee value using current commodity prices. In Pakistan, the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) announces an official Fitrana figure each Ramadan, anchored to Punjab commodity prices, which is why the amount moves year to year with food price inflation rather than staying fixed like a flat fee would. This calculator also handles two related but distinct obligations on the same commodity-value basis: Fidya (compensation for fasts that can't be made up, calculated per missed fast) and Kaffara (a heavier expiation for a fast broken without valid excuse, calculated differently from a simple per-day rate).
A worked example
A household of five each owes the per-person Fitrana amount, so the household total is five times the individual figure — multiplying by household size rather than treating Fitrana as a single family-wide payment is the calculation most people get wrong when paying on behalf of dependents.
How this connects to your other Islamic obligations
Fitrana and Zakat are frequently confused because both are charitable obligations paid around Ramadan, but they're structurally unrelated: Fitrana is a small, fixed per-person amount owed by every Muslim regardless of wealth level, while Zakat is a 2.5% levy on qualifying wealth above the nisab threshold, owed only by those whose wealth exceeds it. Paying Fitrana doesn't reduce or substitute for a Zakat obligation, and vice versa — they're separate, both-required payments for anyone who owes both.
Common mistakes
The most common mistake is treating the CII-announced figure as a nationwide flat rate without adjusting for the fact that it's explicitly anchored to Punjab commodity prices — if local staple food prices in your specific city or province differ meaningfully, adjusting the base figure to reflect actual local commodity cost is more faithful to the underlying principle than using the announced figure unadjusted.