Khums and Zakat

It was mentioned in many narrations that whoever prevents zakat is a disbeliever,^[1] and al-Baqir pbuh said, ﴾The most difficult condithemselves and their money . And if the prayer were to harm what they do with their money and their bodies they would have rejected it the same way they rejected the finest of the obligatory deeds and their most noble one . Commanding good and forbidding evil is a great obligation by which obligations are established . There [when the obligations are abandoned], the anger of Allah occurs upon them and encompasses them in His punishment, so the good ones perish in the homes of the unjust ones and the young ones perish in the homes of the elder ones . Commanding good and forbidding evil is the method of the prophets and the righteous ones . It is a great obligation by which obligations are established, and beliefs are made secure and earnings are made halal, and rights are returned to their owners and the earth is built, and justice is acquired from the enemies and the matter becomes straight . So deny with your hearts, and speak with your tongues and do not fear anyone’s blame when it comes to Allah . So if they accept the preaching, they return and there is no cause against them, ﴾The cause is only against the ones who wrong the people and tyrannize upon the earth without right . Those will have a painful punishment .﴿And there, fight them with your bodies and detest them with your hearts, not in request of power or money and not desiring injustice, until they return to the matter of Allah and proceed with his obedience . And Allah (m) inspired to Prophet Shoaib pbuh , “I am torturing a hundred thousand of your nation . Forty thousand are of their evil ones and sixty thousand are of their good ones .” He pbuh said, “O Lord, these are the evil ones, so what about the good ones?” So Allah (m) inspired to him, “They made truces with the people of disobediences and they did not anger for my anger .”﴿ Al-Kafi Vol . 4 page 55 .

tion that the people will be in on the Day of Resurrection, is when the owner of khums [ .lit fifth] claims his khums .”﴿^[2]And the Imam of the Age (May Allah hasten his blessed relief) said, ﴾Whoever eats something from our money, fire is in his stomach, and he will suffer the hell fire .”﴿^[3] And paying the khums and the zakat has all the good of this world and the hereafter, and causes the money to be blessed and to increase . The Almighty said, ﴾29 Indeed, those who recite the Book of Allah and establish prayer and spend out of what We have provided them, secretly and publicly, [can] expect a trade that will never perish . 30 That He may give them in full their rewards and increase for them of His bounty . Indeed, He is the Forgiving and the Thankful .﴿^[4] And perhaps the most important thing you need to know is that whoever does not spend his money for the sake of Allah does not spend himself for the sake of Allah, thus whoever does not pay khums and zakat will not fight along with the Imam the Hujja (Proof) pbuh , rather it is not far-fetched that he will fight against the Imam pbuh if the justice of the Imam pbuh contradicted his personal interests, and look with the eye of justice that all the money is for Allah, for He is the Owner of everything, however He made four-fifths for you, which made you a beneficiary of it, and He made it an obligation upon you to pay khums [one fifth] and zakat so you can express your obedience to Him, and your love to Him and to His Messenger pbuhap and his progeny pbuh , not because Allah needs this money, for when you give it today, you are spending it on the poor . And I give an example: An owner of a farm gave it to his workers and said, “Work on it and take four-fifths of what is produced, and give the remaining fifth to your poor neighbors; because I do not want them to be hungry or without clothing,” so the workers were greedy even about the fifth and they ate it . Do you see anyone more generous than the owner of the farm? And do you see anyone more miserly than those workers? And praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds .