The meaning of His saying, "and in the necks."

The Shaykh : The meaning of His saying: is that zakah is used to free necks, and this has forms. The first form is when a slave comes to us who has purchased his freedom from his master for a deferred price; this is called a mukatab among the scholars of knowledge. This mukatab comes to us and says that he purchased his freedom from his master for a sum of money, so we allocate to him from the zakah. The second form is when we purchase a slave from the zakah and free him. The third form is when one of the Muslims is captured by the disbelievers and the disbelievers demand a financial ransom, so we release this captive with this ransom from the zakah, because all of this falls under His saying: .