5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

zakât and ’ushr are forgiven since the property has left one’s
possession. But these are not forgiven, either, if one purposely
disposes of it.
He who has the nisâb of fitra and Qurbân is called rich. It is
wâjib for him to give fitra. And if he is mukallaf, which means
discreet, pubert and settled (not travelling), it is also wâjib to
perform the Qurbân only for himself. It is harâm for him to take
zakât, and wâjib to support his poor male relatives who cannot
work and his poor mahram female relatives.
Basic needs include a house, a month’s food, three suits
each year, underwears, things and gadgets used in the house,
servants, means of transportation, books on one’s profession,
whatever their value, and one’s debt. They do not have to exist.
If they exist they are not included in the calculation of nisâb for
zakât, fitra and Qurbân. Those possessions that are not
intended for trade and are more than one’s need, one’s houses
rented out, ornamental things in one’s house, carpets that are
not laid on the floor, spare furniture that is not used, and tools of
art and trade are not considered as necessary property in this
respect. They are included in the calculation of nisâb for fitra
and Qurbân. If the house one is living in is big, it is sahîh that
the spare rooms that one does not use are not included in the
nisâb. See the beginning of chapter 4, which is about
Performing the Qurbân.
For fitra, half a sâ’ of wheat or wheat flour is given. Or one
sâ’ of barley or dates or raisins is given. In Hanafî Madhhab, at
times when wheat, barley and flour are abundant it is better to
give their equivalents in gold and silver. During times of scarcity
it yields more thawâb to give these things themselves. In Hanafî
Madhhab sâ’ is (the volume of) a container with the capacity of
one thousand and forty dirhams of millets or lentils. One sâ’ is
four muds, that is, four menns. Mud and menn are equal and
are two ritls. One ritl is a hundred and thirty dirham-i shar’î or 91
mithqâl, so one sâ’ is [728] mithqâls, or [1040] dirhams, that is
3500 gr. of lentils. Since barley is lighter than wheat and wheat
is lighter than lentils, a container that is filled with one thousand
and forty dirhams of barley is larger than one sâ.’ But it will be
circumspection to call it one sâ.’ It will be circumspection to give
364 mithqâls, or five hundred and twenty [520] dirhams, which
is seventeen hundred and fifty [1750] grams, of wheat instead
of half a sâ.’ Thus a little more will have been given. For, half a
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