Issue 922: Khums must be divided into two portions. One portion is of the Imam’s (PBUH) which must, in our time, be paid to a qualified jurist or their agents and representatives. The other portion belongs to Sadaat (the descendants of the Holy Prophet (PBUT)) which must also be delivered to a qualified jurist, or with their permission, given to a poor Sayyid, an orphan Sayyid or a Sayyid who is in need for money to continue their journey.

Issue 923: The orphan Sayyid, who receives Khums, must be poor, but a Sayyid on a journey who has no money to complete their journey is liable for Khums even if they are not considered poor people in the place where they live.

Issue 924: It is permissible to give the Khums to a Sayyid who is not just (Adil) but it is not allowable to give the Khums to a Sayyid who does not follow the twelve Imams (Ithna ashari).

Q925: Is it obligatory to pay the Khums in the following cases if they remain unused through out a year?

1- Things which might be used in future (such a cassettes, books, pamphlets).

2- Things which a boy collects for his future life.

3- Things which a person used to wear etc. but they do not use any more.

A: Khums is not obligatory on the above-mentioned things.

Q926: I am a girl and I have prepared some home appliances and household goods as my dowry out of my own salary. Do I have to pay Khums on these things? What about the things I have provided for living in the village where I have to do my service?

A: One’s dowry is considered as one’s expenses and Khums is not obligatory on it; even if some one else provides the dowry, it is not obligatory to pay the Khums on it, let alone your dowry which you have prepared yourself; Khums is neither obligatory on the things which you have provided for living in your place of service.

Q927: I have inherited two million Rials. Do I have to pay the Khums on it?

A: One’s legacy is not liable to Khums unless one is certain that the legacy was liable to Khums but the dead person did not pay it.

Q928: Is it obligatory to pay Khums on the money which is given to a child as a prize?

A: Prizes which one receives through some business such as banking prizes, are liable to Khums, otherwise Khums is not obligatory.

Q929: Does the tax which people pay to Islamic ruling system count as Khums?

A: Taxes are included in one’s expenses and they do not count as Khums.

Q930: Is it allowable for those who imitate a religious jurist to pay their Khums to another jurist?

A: If it is certain that they spend the Khums qualitatively and qualitatively in the same way, and if their edicts on Khums and its conditions are the same, it will be allowable.