Zakat On Shares — Follow Up Question 2
When you buy a a machine, you own it and it produces which you sell and make profits. You cannot convert your machine into money. This is not the case with investment. You don’t own a machine or thing. You don’t know if your money is used in buying a means of production or paid in utility bills, etc. You can take your money back anytime, according to the laws or SoPs. Therefore investment is not counted as means of production. Economics treat them differently.