The Meaning of "Treasure" in the Statement "Those Who Hoard..."
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The Shaykh : And what is the treasure of gold and silver?
The scholars said: Everyone who does not pay the zakah of gold and silver is a hoarder of it, even if it is on the peaks of the mountains.
And everyone who pays the zakah of gold and silver is not a hoarder of it, even if it is at the bottom of the earth. So hoarding is not burial; hoarding is withholding what is obligatory upon you from zakah or anything else in your wealth.
The scholars said: Everyone who does not pay the zakah of gold and silver is a hoarder of it, even if it is on the peaks of the mountains.
And everyone who pays the zakah of gold and silver is not a hoarder of it, even if it is at the bottom of the earth. So hoarding is not burial; hoarding is withholding what is obligatory upon you from zakah or anything else in your wealth.