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The Fifth (Al-Khums)
It is due regarding three:
- Game from the land and sea, what is extracted from them both, and what is taken from their surfaces; even if it be wood, herbs, or honey that is not owned;
- War booty;
- Taxes, sales, and what is taken from the protected caste.
It is distributed to those mentioned in the verse: {And know that from the war booty that you obtain, a fifth is for Allah, the Messenger, the relatives, the orphans, the needy, and the wayfarers—if you believe in Allah and what He revealed to His Slave...} (Q. 8:41).
The mandate of its distribution is to the imam.
