What is your comment on what is reported from Imam Ahmad and al-Shafi'i?

The Shaykh : Second: There is a statement from Ahmad and al-Shafi'i that if a person refuses to pay zakah, the ruler should take it from him by force, punish him, and also take a portion of his wealth as a penalty for him. Question: What is your comment on this statement? Answer: The statement is that of Imam Ahmad and al-Shafi'i, but with a note regarding an error made by the writer or the one from whom the writer quoted, where he said: "and also take a portion of his wealth by force." It is not all of his wealth, but rather, as the hadith explicitly states, half of his wealth, meaning half of his wealth or a portion of it. This hadith gives us the following ruling: that if a person does not offer the zakah of his wealth with his own hand, willingly and with a good heart, the Muslim ruler takes it from him against his will, and then punishes him in his wealth, which was the cause of his failure to fulfill the obligatory right due upon him. He takes half of his wealth as a penalty for him. This is what this hadith indicates, and this is what Imam al-Shafi'i and Imam Ahmad said. No scholar among the Muslims says that he is punished and penalized by taking all of his wealth. No, but rather as stated in the hadith: .