His saying (Glorified and Exalted is He): (And give its due on the day of its harvest), does this not make zakah obligatory on all of it?

The questioner : The verse that says: ... everything it produces ...?

The Shaykh : I am reminding you of my previous words. I said that there are two types of zakah: a regulated zakah with conditions such as the completion of a lunar year and reaching the nisab (minimum threshold), and an absolute zakah. So regarding , you look at this harvest: is it of the first type, restricted to a specific percentage, like what you heard in the hadith of Mu'adh: ? Let us assume two men, one planting dates and the other planting apricots, and the harvest of each in its season is equal in value to the other. But for dates, there is an explicit text stating that if it is rain-fed, he owes one-tenth, and if it is irrigated, he owes what? Half of one-tenth. This criterion and these restrictions do not apply to the owner of the apricots. However, the owner of the apricots gives what is easy for him, as we said, from the perspective of purifying his soul. But here is a very sensitive point: zakah on fruits and livestock was collected by the state, even against the will of their owners, unlike zakah on money. The matter of zakah on money is left to the rich people themselves. The collector (using the old Arab term) or the tax collector (using the modern term) does not come to count the gold or silver each rich person has and then take two and a half from every hundred. No, this matter is left to the conscience of this rich person. Unlike the charity on livestock, fruits, and crops, where the collector comes at the time of harvest and takes the zakah, even if the rich person refuses against his will. There is a ruling in an authentic hadith that if he refuses, it is taken from him in double as a punishment for him. So if we assume the collector comes in the season of picking or harvesting dates, he takes his right according to the previous details, whether it is irrigated or not. But he does not come to the owner of the apricots and say: "Give it," because there is no zakah on him. But this owner of the apricots gives what his soul is pleased with to his poor, his neighbors, etc.
So His saying (Glorified and Exalted is He): , does not contradict our previous detailed statement, is that so, Abu Khalid? Yes. And you.