Why Zakat On Production Applied To Monthly Salary?
@faisalharoon Sir I do agree that inflation doesn’t pose a valid argument against this Ijtihad of Ghamidi Sb. But I did have some concerns about considering wages or incomes as production. My argument was that granted agriculture was the only form of production during our Prophet’s era, but it certainly wasn’t the only source of income. And as answered on a previous discussion of mine, the traders who earned on merchandise (income based on profit in trade of goods) paid the usual 2.5 percent yearly. And as such would be the case of people who would provide any kind of service and get compensation for it (as I understand the landscape of Arabia to be complex during that time with different people and vast amounts of trade etc and so certainly some variety would exist in that economy too). So generally, in the production of goods and services in the modern day economy, considering wages as the production itself would be a big jump, as it is the compensation of employees who we can say are a means of production to that final good. So if agriculture was indeed the only form of production of any tangible or consumable product during that era, then certainly it can be applied to countless other forms of production in this era, from the manufacturing industry to the IT industry, but applying it onto the wages of the employees itself doesn’t seem that convincing. So, for analogy purposes, wouldn’t employees be akin to the labourers working on the agricultural lands during that era? But the 10 or 20 percent would certainly only apply to the one who owns the land and the produced good (as in today’s economy where it would apply to the owners of businesses or companies that produce goods). Anyways, I would love your input on the points I raised and I might not have a detailed understanding of Ghamidi sb’s reasoning as I have only watched videos and these points I had weren’t addressed there. TIA