852 - المُستَحِقُّونَ لِلزَّكاةِ

852. Those Who are Entitled to Receive THE ALMS-TAX

(إنَّما الصَّدَقاتُ لِلْفُقَراءِ والْمَساكِينِ والْعامِلِينَ عَلَيْها والْمُؤَلَّفَةِ قُلُوبُهُمْ وَفِي الرِّقابِ والْغارِمِينَ وَفِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وابْنِ السَّبِيلِ فَرِيضَةً مِنَ اللَّهِ واللَّهُ عَليمٌ حَكيمٌ) .¹

"Charities are only for the poor and the needy, and those employed to collect them, and those whose hearts are to be reconciled, and for [the freedom of] slaves and the debtors, and in the way of Allah, and for the traveller. [This is] an ordinance from Allah, and Allah is all-knowing, all-wise." ²

2703.الإمامُ الصّادقُ عليه السلام - في قولِهِ تعالى‏ : (إنّما الصَّدَقاتُ للفُقَراءِ ...) - : الفَقيرُ الذي لا يَسأ لُ الناسَ ، والمِسكينُ أجهَدُ مِنهُ ، والبائسُ أجهَدُهُم .³

2703. Imam al-Sadiq (AS), with regards to Allah's verse in the Qur'an: "Charities are only for the poor...", said, 'The poor man is he who does not beg from people [despite his poverty], the destitute lives in even harsher conditions than him, and the wretched one lives in the most straitened circumstances of all.' ⁴

(اُنظر) الصدقة : باب 1116 .

(See also: CHARITY: section 1116)