{"id":4650,"date":"2021-05-17T10:11:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T09:11:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-05-17T10:11:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T09:11:22","slug":"when-does-khums-become-wajib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/4650\/when-does-khums-become-wajib\/","title":{"rendered":"When does Khums become Wajib?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When does Khums become Wajib?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

When does Khums become Wajib?<\/strong> Khums is obligatory on the following seven things:
\n(i) Profit or gain from earning.
\n(ii) Minerals.
\n(iii) Treasure-trove
\n(iv) Amalgamation of Hal\u0101l wealth with Har\u0101m.
\n(v) Gems obtained from diving into sea.
\n(vi) Spoils of war.
\n(vii) A land which a Zimmi Kafir purchases from a Muslim.
\nThe detailed laws for each of the above have been discussed in Tauzihul Masael. Khums should be divided into two parts. One part is for the Sad\u0101ts which should be given to a sayyid who is poor, or orphan or who has become penniless during journey. The other portion of Khums is for Imam az-Zaman (a.s.) which should be paid to his qualified representative during Ghaibat or it should be spent in the way permitted by the representative who is fully qualified.
\nThe book Kalematul Tayyabah has forty incidents that illustrate the benefits of helping the Sad\u0101t and the merits of being kind to them. We shall be content to narrate one of those incidents here.
\nThe incident has been recorded in books like Arba\u012bn, Muntakhabul D\u012bn, Fazael al-Shaz\u0101n, Tohfatul Ahz\u0101r and Was\u012blatul M\u0101l. It is narrated through authentic chain of narrators that Ibrah\u012bm bin Mehran said:
\nIn Kufa I had a good-natured neighbour by the name of Abu Ja\u2019far. Whenever a Sayyid came to him asking for something he would give it to him. If he paid for it Abu Ja\u2019far accepted the payment, if he didn\u2019t, however, Abu Ja\u2019far instructed his assistants to record it in the ledger of debts under the name of \u2018Ali Ibn Abi Talib (a.s.).
\nThis continued for quite some time and when his financial conditions worsened and he became poverty stricken he took out the ledgers and tried to recover his debts. If the debtors were alive he sent his servants for recovery of debt but if the person was no more or had nothing to repay, Abu Ja\u2019far would strike out the name from his register.
\nOne day he was sitting near the entrance of his house poring over the ledgers and a Nasibi (one who is inimical to \u2018Ali (a.s.) passed by and taunted Abu Ja\u2019far.
\n\u201cHow about your greatest debtor \u2013 \u2018Ali? Did he repay your debts?\u201d Abu Ja\u2019far was hurt at this taunt and the same night he dreamt that the Holy Prophet (S) was sitting with Imam Hasan and Imam Husain (a.s.). The Messenger of Allah (S) asked, \u201cWhere is your father?\u201d Amir ul-Mu\u2019min\u012bn \u2018Ali (a.s.) replied from behind. The Prophet (S) asked him why he had not restored the debt of Abu Ja\u2019far.
\n\u2018Ali (a.s.) said, \u201cI have brought this for repayment.\u201d So saying he took out a white woollen bag and gave it to Abu Ja\u2019far. The Holy Prophet (S) told him to take it and whenever their descendants came to ask him for something he should not spurn them and added that after this there shall be no problem for him.
\nAbu Ja\u2019far awoke and saw that he was holding the same bag that \u2018Ali (a.s.) had given him. He shook his sleeping wife and told her to put on the light. When the bag was opened it was found to contain one thousand Ashrafis (Gold Coins). The wife said, \u201cO Allah\u2019s slave! Fear Allah, I hope the difficult times have not compelled you to obtain this money by cheating other traders.\u201d \u201cCertainly not!\u201d, said Abu Ja\u2019far and narrated the whole incident. Then he got out his ledger and calculated the total amount in \u2018Ali Ibn \u2018Ali Talib\u2019s account. He found it to be exactly 1000 Ashrafis. Neither less nor more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The detailed laws for each of the above have been discussed in Tauzihul Masael. Khums should be divided into two parts. One part is for the Sad\u0101ts which should be given to a sayyid who is poor, or orphan or who has become penniless during journey. The other portion of Khums is for Imam az-Zaman (a.s.) which should be paid to his qualified representative during Ghaibat or it should be spent in the way permitted by the representative who is fully qualified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7767,7376],"tags":[20247,20248,19650,19669,20246],"class_list":["post-4650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-jurisprudence","tag-khums","tag-profit-gaining","tag-shia","tag-shia-studies-world-assembly","tag-wajib-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}