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Moreover, he adds: “if they have been deprived of the right of “Khums”, it does not mean that charity and other such things which are unlawful for them will become lawful.” Indeed, since the people in power did away with this “right” altogether, the books of the jurisprudence of the majority community are quite silent on this topic and not surprisingly Imam Shafi’i has omitted to mention this topic in his books on “fiqh”.

In all Shi’a books of “fiqh”, “Khums” has been given a special chapter just like “Zakat”. (we must admit however that the learned scholar Hafiz Abu ‘Ubayd al-Qasim ibn Salam (died 224 A.H.), in his great work “Kitab al-Amwal”, dealt with all the problems of “Khums”, including the ways in which it should be spent, in a special chapter. Most of the points he discussed are in perfect consonance with Shi’a beliefs.

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