5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

have allotments from this department.” By the same token,
when there is no property of kharâj and jizya left in the third
department men of religion and those who perform jihâd are
paid from the property of zakât and ’ushr in the first department.
At a time when enemies of religion attack by writing and by
every sort of propaganda to demolish Islam and to mislead the
Muslims’ children out of Islam, writers, societies, courses of the
Qur’ân, print-houses, books and newpapers who answer them
and who protect Muslims against their deceit are all champions,
heroes of Islam. It is fard to give these champions, who protect
Islam and Muslims in such a cold war, from the property of ’ushr
and zakât in the Beytulmâl. The Sultân’s abrogating the ’ushr
does not absolve the Muslims from (giving) the ’ushr. It is fard
for them to give the ’ushr themselves. They should give it to
those mujâhids (above-mentioned champions of Islam). Thus
they will both fulfill the fard and attain the thawâb of jihâd.
It is written on the two hundred and forty-ninth page of the
fifth volume of Ibni Âbidîn (rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’aleyh), “If the
property in the Beytulmâl has not been collected in a way fair
and halâl, if it has been taken away by cruelty, it is fard to give
the property that has been taken unjustly back to its owners. It
is not given to those who have allotments from the Beytulmâl. It
is harâm for them to accept it. If the owners are not known, the
property is put in the fourth department of the Beytulmâl, and
given to those who have allotments from that department.”
THOSE WHO DO NOT PAY ZAKÂT — The author of
Riyâd-un-nâsihîn (rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’aleyh) says that Hadrat
Alî, the Emîrulmu’mînîn ’kerrem-allâhu wejheh’, says:
Rasûlullah declared in his farewell hajj: “Give zakât of your
property! Be it known that those who do not give their
zakât do not have namâz, fast, hajj, jihâd, or îmân,” which
means to say that if a person does not know it as a duty to give
zakât, does not believe that it is fard, is not sorry for not giving
it, and does not know that he is sinful, then he becomes a
disbeliever. If a person does not give zakât for years, his debts
of zakât pool together and cover all his property. He thinks his
property belongs to him; it does not even occur to him that
Muslims have rightful shares in that property. His heart never
feels sorry. He has clasped the property so tightly. Such people
are known as Muslims. But very few of them pass away with
îmân. Giving zakât is commanded together with namâz at thirty-
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