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Why Zakat On Production Applied To Monthly Salary?
Ghamidi sb maintains like the core of religion, practices like Zakat have also reached us through consensus. If so, then why are there so many disagreements about it? Most think there’s no Zakat on monthly salaries. But as per Ghamidi sb, a 10% is due on monthly salaries (he compares it with agricultural production). I think the former view is more reasonable. In today’s time when inflation is skyrocketing, a great burden would be placed on a salaried person. (If one earns Rs. 100,000, he has to pay Rs. 10,000 every month in Zakat). This is a considerable amount which might even prevent a salaried person from fulfilling his obligations towards his family (e.g. one of his kid won’t be able to go to school). I think the view that Zakat is payable on savings not income makes way more sense and this has been the way for so many centuries in so many Muslim communities. Was Zakat payable on salaried persons as well, we should’ve found ample evidence of this in Prophet(pbuh)’s own time. @UmerQureshi @faisalharoon @Irfan76
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Why Zakat On Production Applied To Monthly Salary?
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Zakat is a sunnah that has reached us with ijma and tawatur. There is no difference of opinion on the sharia of zakat. The differences of opinion are in the application of the sharia and such differences shall always remain because as humans we have to interpret laws.
20% (khums) and 10% (ushr) on agricultural production also come to us from the sunnah that has reached us with ijma and tawatur. These rates are the same even in the sharias of previous nations as it is evident from the Bible. Since at the time of Prophet Muhammad SAW, agriculture was the only means of production, Ghamidi sahab has made an ijtihad and has applied it to all other forms of production in the modern day, for example, salaries, wages, etc. In my opinion this is quite logical and was intended to begin with. If one does not agree with it that is fine, but the argument for disagreement cannot be rise in inflation. They have to have a valid argument that restricts zakat to only agricultural production or an argument that shows that salaries and wages are materially different from agricultural production for the purpose of zakat.
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Also, not every production is liable to pay zakat against it, a certain amount as Nisab has to be prescribed. In the case of salaries, this threshold is suggested to be the taxable salary. Also, the taxes which are paid, are counted as Zakat paid.
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