Follow Up: Categorizing Salary As Produce
These are indeed very cogent points. It could prove very beneficial for everyone if you could somehow discuss this issue directly with a Scholar, with all these details. You can join “ Ask Dr. Saleem ” session, where questions are answered in an open discussion format with follow-up questions. Following is the registration link: https://www.ghamidi.org/ask-dr-saleem/ The option to join “ Ask Ghamidi live ” session is also there, but I personally think that Dr. Saleem’s session will cater to your needs in a better way. ____ As far as a retailer/trader is concerned , while making an ijtihad, one can consider both production angle and asset angle. When Sahaba made that ijtihad, they leaned towards the assets angle. It makes sense even today why that ijtihad was made and the reason is applicable even today i.e. sale and purchase of stock in trade ( which is a form of wealth in essence ) and income mechanism also depends solely on that trade as opposed to income generated by providing a service like in a salaried person case for instance. As for the prodution unit , a salaried person may or may not be a production unit ( this is a separate topic ) – but this is from the point of view of the producer/industrialist. We are considering zakat from the point of view of the salaried individual, whether his income is only wealth or there is more to it considering the nature of his job and income generation. This is where that ijtihad is being made. Ghamidi Sahab use the term service sector in a very broad way i.e. where income generation is subject to provision of a service which generally results in a recurring form of income ( could be daily, weekly, monthly or yearly ). Question of Production zakat never arose for blacksmiths, tailors etc. in the past and it could never arise even today, because most of this labour falls below Nisab and such people are already exempt from Zakat. This sector evolved in later times where the magnitude of services and returns generated against these services were significant enough to be considered for Zakat purposes this way.