5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

according to Imâm-i-Muhammad, also before the zakât has
become fard, it is makrûh to seek for ways so that it will not be
fard. Please see the fifteenth chapter of the third part of the
Turkish original version.
If one has not mixed commodities of zakât obtained by
harâm means (usurpation or bribery) with one’s own property,
one does not include them in the nisâb. For they are not one’s
own property. It is fard for one to return them to their owners or
inheritors, or to give them as alms to the poor if one cannot find
anyone of them. If one has mixed them, the case is the same if
one can separate them. If one cannot separate them, one pays
this debt to the owners from one’s halâl zakât property. One
keeps this zakât property until the owners are found. One does
not pay the zakât for them or for the mixture. If one has zakât
property amounting to nisâb other than the two mentioned
above, one should give zakât both for this nisâb and the mixed
property. After paying back its former owner it would also
become fard to give zakât of all khabîs (abominable) property.
In other words, one includes the mixed property in the nisâb
amount. For by mixing others’ property with one’s own property
one has owned and possessed it. But it has become one’s
Mulk-i-khabîs (abominable property). The owners will have no
rights to this property. When one gives any amount out of this
abominable property to someone, it will be permissible for that
person to receive it. But unless the abominable property is
compensated for, one has no right to use it. One cannot give it
to someone else. One cannot give it as alms to the poor, either.
One cannot include it in the nisâb of zakât. Compensation
means to return a similar commodity. If its like is not avaliable,
the value that was current on the day when it was obtained is to
be paid to the owners. Compensation should be made out of
one’s halâl zakât property, not out of an abominable mixture. It
would be a worse sin to acquire an abominable mixed property
in order to avoid giving zakât than to simply not give zakât at all.
If the owners are unknown, the unmixed amount, and if it is
mixed altogether all that abominable property is to be given as
alms to the poor. For it exists as harâm property in every part of
this mixture. Even if harâm commodities purchased from
several people are mixed together, all of them become
abominable property. But it is wâjib to give them back to their
original owners; if they are not known, then as alms to the poor.
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