The amount of lost property that is picked up and announced
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What is the upper limit of what is permissible to pick up from lost financial property in this time?The Shaykh: Do you mean what is acquired by picking it up, or what is permissible to pick up?The questioner: What is acquired by picking it up.
This is because there is a difference between the two; what is permissible to pick up, one may pick it up even if it reaches millions, but what is acquired by picking it up varies according to circumstances and according to people. In a past era, a single dirham was valuable to people and they would pursue it, but in our current era, ten riyals may not matter; if ten riyals were lost from a person, he would not search for them, except if they were in a nearby place. Also, in the past, when dirhams were available in people's hands and liquidity—as they say—was also available, if fifty riyals were lost from him, it would not matter to him; but now dirhams have started to become scarce,And perhaps we say: thirty riyals are pursued by the middle class of people, so you must announce them.
This is because there is a difference between the two; what is permissible to pick up, one may pick it up even if it reaches millions, but what is acquired by picking it up varies according to circumstances and according to people. In a past era, a single dirham was valuable to people and they would pursue it, but in our current era, ten riyals may not matter; if ten riyals were lost from a person, he would not search for them, except if they were in a nearby place. Also, in the past, when dirhams were available in people's hands and liquidity—as they say—was also available, if fifty riyals were lost from him, it would not matter to him; but now dirhams have started to become scarce,And perhaps we say: thirty riyals are pursued by the middle class of people, so you must announce them.