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