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Khums, the Fund of Independence of Bayt Al-Mal
Khums, One of Important Islamic
Financial Resources
The point
which should be noticed before
anything else in this discussion
is that:
Islamic Bayt
Al-Mal (also Baitulmal) which
had been founded by entering
Prophet (S) to Medina and
establishing Islamic government
was consisted of funds which
were collected from several
sources:
1- From
“Zakat” (Islamic concept of
tithing and alms)
2- From
“Khums” (one fifth; a kind of
Islamic tax)
3- From “Anfal”
(Spoils and also public
resources)
4- From “Kharaj”
(Islamic tax on agricultural
land)
5- From “Jizya”
(tax taken from religious
minorities) which any of them
has an explained section in
Islamic Fiqh and exclusive
orders and rulings.
Here in this
booklet, our purpose is not to
discuss about all sources of
income of Islamic Bayt Al-Mal
and costs and usages, but we
only want to talk about “Khums”,
because some people protest
that:
“Why Khums
has been extended in Shi’aa and
consists of any income, while
firstly, Khums has been
mentioned in holy Qur"an only
for spoils and secondly, we have
no historic record in which
Prophet (S) or Ali (a.s.) or
caliphs had took Khums from any
source other than spoils while
Shiite scholars and Faqihs
insist that Khums means one
fifth of surplus of income, and
it is not limited to spoils of
war but any income that can be
made from agriculture or
ranching, industry or business,
working or any other sources.
A person
should pay one fifth of his
savings after subtracting costs
for one year from any income
that he had and pay it to Bayt
Al-Mal in order to spend in
defined usages, and they have no
clear proof for this extending;
and therefore Sunni scholars are
not believed on Khums other than
spoils of war and if we assume
that Khums has some extending
cases and advancements it is
forgiven during the major
absence of Imam Zaman (a.s.)!”
Here, some
matters should be discussed
accurately:
1-What is
the “Purpose of the Objectors”
from this much of brabble about
the issue of Khums?
2- Is Khums
exclusive to spoils of war in
Qur’an?
3- Is Khums
exclusive to spoils of war in
cabbalas of Prophet (S)?
4- What do
cabbalas of “Ahlul Bayt of
Prophet (S)” say to us about
this matter?
5- Has Khums
been “forgiven” during the
absence of Imam Zaman (a.s.)?
6- Had Khums
been taken from people at the
beginning of Islam according to
history?
7- Is
allocating Khums for Sadat (pl.
of Sayyid) Discrimination? |
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