One time and it does not help another time due to a defect in it. The soul’s response to oppression in what does not help in obedience to God is zakat on it, like someone who wants to pray and finds laziness in his limbs and weakness and is discouraged from it even though he desires it. So paying zakat at that time is to establish it and not leave it while it is laziness while it is in that. Time is distinct from the concept of being taken for offspring because it contains males and females, meaning the thoughts of the mind and the thoughts of the soul.