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What Items Are Included in Al-Khums?
Al-Khums is compulsory in a number
of cases as in the following:
1. War-booties: are meant: portable and importable goods, buildings and assets which are gained by the army of the Moslems for the killing of the disbelievers who are legalized by the infallible Imam who would give his followers permission to fight against the disbelievers and the whole booty in case of victory will be the lot of the Imam if the war started without the Imam's permission.
There is no Khums to be taken from the war-booty if the property was found belonging to a Moslem or someone else who respects what he owns of wealth and property and must be returned to its owner in similar cases.
2. Ownership of metals: It involves everything that is extracted from the earth like gold, silver, lead, copper, aqiq, ruby, kuhl, sulfur, salt, tar, oil and the like…To all that, with a legally binding term, the following are to be attached to the ones mentioned already like: gypsum, washing mud and grindstone according to what is confirmed by the Shia Super Religious Authority, his Eminence, As-Sayyid Ali Al-Hussaini As-Sistani.
The main condition which must be available in Al-Khums concerning metals is to reach the permissible top level at which it becomes free from Al-Khums whose value equals 15 anointed gold or its equivalent value of other metals.
3. Possessing a treasure: is that kind of property which one owns and keeps it as secret whether under the earth or inside a wall or other than these areas as well and it may happen, all of a sudden that this treasure goes out of sight in one way and another and becomes in the grip of another person, so that it becomes the property of the one who finds it will be incumbent on him to pay one fifth of its value as Khums.
This involves gold and silver whether coined or non-coined.
4. Diving into the sea. It includes what divers extract from the depths of the sea or the river-of pearls and precious stone through diving or with a tool or anything with which they can grasp and pick up valuable gems. Diving has nothing to do with animals and doesn't also include what man can find in the depth of the sea with regard to fish or other sea animals.
Al-Khums becomes obligatory when it reaches top-level whose value equals one dinar only - below which there is no Khums to be imposed on divers.
5. The land which has been possessed by a disbeliever after being sold or gifted by a Moslem to him such Khums can't be dropped if the purchaser has become a Moslem. He must be condemned for his being a disbeliever. But the Super Shias' Religious Authority – his Eminence: As-Sayyid Ali Al-Husseini As-Sistani (May Allah preserve His Blessings on him) says in his book: (Minhaj As-Salihin):"Verily, the confirmation of Al-Khums that concerns this land in its well-known sense – i.e. of this land itself, is not free from problems".
6. Legal wealth mixed with the illegal: So, if one has got legal wealth mixed with the illegal….and cannot distinguish between them, the whole fund can be legalized through extracting Al-Khums out of it.
The surplus of one's annual provision, together with the surplus of those of whom he is financially in charge, who earn their living out of the benefits of trade, plantations, industries, rentals and what he legally keeps of women and rather everything that yields profits like gifts, prizes, medals, money and assets being trusted and the growth of wealth coming to him from endowments.
Khums does not include dowry, divorce returns, organs' replacements, and reckoned inheritance, alimony and a fat kill error.
1. War-booties: are meant: portable and importable goods, buildings and assets which are gained by the army of the Moslems for the killing of the disbelievers who are legalized by the infallible Imam who would give his followers permission to fight against the disbelievers and the whole booty in case of victory will be the lot of the Imam if the war started without the Imam's permission.
There is no Khums to be taken from the war-booty if the property was found belonging to a Moslem or someone else who respects what he owns of wealth and property and must be returned to its owner in similar cases.
2. Ownership of metals: It involves everything that is extracted from the earth like gold, silver, lead, copper, aqiq, ruby, kuhl, sulfur, salt, tar, oil and the like…To all that, with a legally binding term, the following are to be attached to the ones mentioned already like: gypsum, washing mud and grindstone according to what is confirmed by the Shia Super Religious Authority, his Eminence, As-Sayyid Ali Al-Hussaini As-Sistani.
The main condition which must be available in Al-Khums concerning metals is to reach the permissible top level at which it becomes free from Al-Khums whose value equals 15 anointed gold or its equivalent value of other metals.
3. Possessing a treasure: is that kind of property which one owns and keeps it as secret whether under the earth or inside a wall or other than these areas as well and it may happen, all of a sudden that this treasure goes out of sight in one way and another and becomes in the grip of another person, so that it becomes the property of the one who finds it will be incumbent on him to pay one fifth of its value as Khums.
This involves gold and silver whether coined or non-coined.
4. Diving into the sea. It includes what divers extract from the depths of the sea or the river-of pearls and precious stone through diving or with a tool or anything with which they can grasp and pick up valuable gems. Diving has nothing to do with animals and doesn't also include what man can find in the depth of the sea with regard to fish or other sea animals.
Al-Khums becomes obligatory when it reaches top-level whose value equals one dinar only - below which there is no Khums to be imposed on divers.
5. The land which has been possessed by a disbeliever after being sold or gifted by a Moslem to him such Khums can't be dropped if the purchaser has become a Moslem. He must be condemned for his being a disbeliever. But the Super Shias' Religious Authority – his Eminence: As-Sayyid Ali Al-Husseini As-Sistani (May Allah preserve His Blessings on him) says in his book: (Minhaj As-Salihin):"Verily, the confirmation of Al-Khums that concerns this land in its well-known sense – i.e. of this land itself, is not free from problems".
6. Legal wealth mixed with the illegal: So, if one has got legal wealth mixed with the illegal….and cannot distinguish between them, the whole fund can be legalized through extracting Al-Khums out of it.
The surplus of one's annual provision, together with the surplus of those of whom he is financially in charge, who earn their living out of the benefits of trade, plantations, industries, rentals and what he legally keeps of women and rather everything that yields profits like gifts, prizes, medals, money and assets being trusted and the growth of wealth coming to him from endowments.
Khums does not include dowry, divorce returns, organs' replacements, and reckoned inheritance, alimony and a fat kill error.
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