God did not impose zakat, made it obligatory, and purified souls with it from miserliness and miserliness except for this fulfilled matter. The obligation of it is more severe on the soul than voluntary charity, because of the compulsion that is in the obligation and the choice that is in the voluntary, for in the obligation it is a slave with the rule of a master, and in the choice it is for himself if he wills and if he wills.

Know that part of the soul's stinginess is saving and being suspicious of it until the time of need. If the needy is identified, it is giving, and this is what most of the souls of the righteous do. As for the common people, we do not have a conversation with them. Rather, we speak with the people of God according to their classes, and few of the people of God are those who seek from the people in need until we reach them. What is in his power, whether obligatory or voluntary, for the obligation of this, God has appointed its types and ranks according to a quorum and a specific time, and the voluntary work of that does not stop at anything, for the voluntary act is the granting of lordship, so it is not restricted, and the obligation is the giving of servitude, so it is according to what his master decrees for him, and the giving of servitude is better, for the obligation is better than the voluntary act. Where is the servitude of necessity from the servitude of choice? This type

And those who are above this class that gives according to merit are also higher than these, and they are the ones who give what they have in their hands out of divine generosity and morality, so they give to the deserving and the undeserving, and according to us, from the point of view of truth, the taker is deserving because he only took it out of poverty and need and not for anything else, regardless of whether the gift was something. It was a gift, donation, or other type of gift, like a rich merchant with thousands who wanders wastelands, travels the seas, endures dangers, stays away from his family and children, and exposes himself and his money to damage during his travels, in order to demand a dirham that is in excess of what he has. Thus, the quality of poverty imposed on him, blinded him to the knowledge of these horrors, and hardships were made easy for him. Because the power of this attribute in the servant is strong, so whoever looks with this view, which is the truth

The divine lineage cannot be denied except by one who is not a pure believer, for God says, “Lend to God a loan,” and He says, “I was hungry and you did not feed me, and I was thirsty and you did not give me something to drink.”

And between all of that, God Almighty did not refrain from attributing these things to Him as a warning to us that He is Him. What is apparent in appearances is according to their preparations, and the upper hand is the one that spends, so it is better in every way than the lower hand, which is the taker. The rightly giver and the rightly taker are not equal in rank, name, or situation, for there is nothing that does not have a face and a relationship to the truth, and a face and a relationship to the creation, and for this reason He made it a spending and said, “And spend of what We have provided you and of what We have provided them to spend.” So God Almighty took into consideration in this speech the greatest scholars because they are the ones

Since giving has a relation to truth and wealth and a relation to creation and need, God called it spending, so the scholars of creation spend in both ways, so they see the truth in what they give as giving and taking, and they see that their hands are the ones in which giving and taking appear, and this does not veil them from this, for these people only see the deserving, so every taker is just a taker. By virtue of entitlement, even if he did not deserve it, it would be impossible for him to accept what he would not have given him, just as it is impossible for him to be absolutely rich and it is not impossible for him to be absolutely poor .

Then those who wait for times of need and save, as we mentioned, due to the suspicion that has befallen them, some of them save out of foresight, and among them are those who save not out of foresight, so we do not submit to them .