His saying, the Exalted: (And give its due on the day of its harvest) — does this not make zakah obligatory on everyone?

The questioner : The verse that says ... that it is all ...?

The Shaykh : I am reminding you of my previous statement. I said that there are two types of zakah: a regulated zakah with conditions, including 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 by a specific percentage, like what you heard in the hadith of Mu'adh: ? Let us assume two men, one planting, for example, dates from palm trees, and the other planting apricots. Suppose the harvest of each, in its season, equals the other in value. 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 half of one-tenth. These rules and restrictions do not apply to the owner of the apricots. However, the owner of the apricots looks at what is easy for him, as we said, in the category of purifying the 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 Arabic term, or the tax collector in modern terms, does not come to count how much 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. This is unlike the charity on livestock, fruits, and crops. At the time of harvest, this collector comes 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 you assume the collector comes in the season of picking or gathering dates, he takes his right according to the previous details: is it irrigated or not? But he does not come to the owner of the apricots and say, "Give it," because he does not owe zakah on it. But if the owner of the apricots wishes, he gives what pleases his soul to his poor, his neighbors, etc.
So, His saying, the Exalted: does not contradict our previous detailed statement, is that right, Abu Khalid? Yes, and you as well.

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