What comes out of the earth from grains and fruits.
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The Shaykh : The third: What comes out of the earth. Does everything that comes out of the earth, such as watermelon, fruits, and others, have zakah on it? Or is there a distinction?
Answer: There is a distinction regarding what comes out of the earth from grains and fruits. From grains: such as corn, barley, rice, wheat, and the like.
Fruits: such as dates, grapes, figs, and the like. Not everything that comes out has zakah on it. What comes out of the earth? From grains and fruits. As for anything else, there is no zakah on it. So, is there zakah on oranges? A person has an orchard full of oranges that bears a lot of fruit. Is there zakah on it? Is there zakah on it? Apply what we said, my brother. Is it grains? Is it fruits? What do we call it? Fruits. This has no zakah on it.
Okay, a person has a large orchard full of strawberries. What do they call them? Strawberries or what? Strawberries. Okay, strawberries or whatever you call them, is there zakah on them?
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : There is no zakah on them. There is no zakah on them. Why? Because they are not grains nor fruits.
Okay, a person has an orchard full of alfalfa. He harvests from it every week and sells it. Is there zakah on it or not? There is no zakah on it. If you know the criterion: what comes out of the earth, on the condition that it is grains or fruits. How many are these?
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : By Allah, it is a problem. First, gold and silver. Second, grazing livestock. Third, what comes out of the earth.
Answer: There is a distinction regarding what comes out of the earth from grains and fruits. From grains: such as corn, barley, rice, wheat, and the like.
Fruits: such as dates, grapes, figs, and the like. Not everything that comes out has zakah on it. What comes out of the earth? From grains and fruits. As for anything else, there is no zakah on it. So, is there zakah on oranges? A person has an orchard full of oranges that bears a lot of fruit. Is there zakah on it? Is there zakah on it? Apply what we said, my brother. Is it grains? Is it fruits? What do we call it? Fruits. This has no zakah on it.
Okay, a person has a large orchard full of strawberries. What do they call them? Strawberries or what? Strawberries. Okay, strawberries or whatever you call them, is there zakah on them?
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : There is no zakah on them. There is no zakah on them. Why? Because they are not grains nor fruits.
Okay, a person has an orchard full of alfalfa. He harvests from it every week and sells it. Is there zakah on it or not? There is no zakah on it. If you know the criterion: what comes out of the earth, on the condition that it is grains or fruits. How many are these?
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : By Allah, it is a problem. First, gold and silver. Second, grazing livestock. Third, what comes out of the earth.