فقہائے اربعہ ؒ کےاقوال کی روشنی میں نصابِ زکوٰۃ کے معاصرانہ تقاضے:ایک تحقیقی جائزہ
Abstract
Zakat is one of the main pillars of Islam. On one hand, it purifies the income of the wealthy people, on the other hand,it helps the needy people hence the social value of Islam and brotherhood is promoted.Theniṣābof few things are very clear as mentioned inaḥādīthin quit unambiguous manner just like nisāb of gold, silver,and livestock,etc.However in a situation when a person’s wealth is a mixture of a different kind ofAmwāl-e-zakatand none of them reach to the limit ofnisāb, especially in the case of gold, silver,and modern-day paper currency, in this case, whether gold, silver or paper shall be combined for the obligation of zakat or not?Imam Malik, Imam AbūYūsuf and Imam Muhammad are of the view that the merger shall be based onits quantity/parts(ء ).On the other hand, according to Imam AbūḤanifa,the merger shall be based onthe price of gold and silver and the person should be considerednisābholder if the price of the combined assets reaches the price ofnisābof silver.The above principle shall also be applied forUzḥiyyahas well.Currently, due to the huge difference in the price of silver and gold, if we take the merger of different assets based onprice, people who are not even secure from financial worries becomenisābholder and they have to pay zakat as well asUzḥiyyah.In this paper, Zakat and its conditions arebriefly defined, the issue of the combination of variousniṣābsis elaborated,and the modern-day problems in light of the impact of the price of silver on the combination ofniṣābsarediscussedalong with the recommendations.
Dr. Javed Khan, Dr. Muḥammad Mushtaq Aḥmad, Dr. Attaullah. (2020) An Analytical Study on Contemporary Requisites for Niṣab of Zakat in the Light of Opinions of Fuqhā-e-Arba'a, Journal of Islamic & Religious Studies, Volume-5, Issue-1.
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