As for those who differentiate between the ripe and what is other than it, then the ripe, because it has the quality of perfection or resemblance to perfection, and something other than the ripe falls below the level of perfection or resemblance to perfection and is characterized by imperfection, obligates zakat on the imperfect to purify it of imperfection, and does not oblige it to be perfect, for perfection is not valid for it to be in anything else. There is no perfection except in unity .