Thus, He made it an absolute obligation that there must be the enjoining of what is right and the forbidding of what is wrong.

Regarding this, it was narrated from the Commander of the Faithful [Ali]—to him be submission—that he said:

"Indeed, Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, revealed to Shuaib the Prophet: 'I shall punish forty thousand of the wicked among your people, and sixty thousand of their 'good' ones.' Shuaib said: 'O Lord, these are the wicked whom You punish and whom I recognized, but what is the case of the good ones?' He [Allah] said to him: 'Because they did not forbid the people of disobedience, nor did they become angry for My sake.'"

As for Zakat (Almsgiving): it is an obligation according to the saying of the Almighty: {And establish prayer and give Zakat} (Al-Baqarah: 43). He also said regarding wealth: {And what you give in Zakat, desiring the face of Allah—those are the multipliers [of reward]} (Ar-Rum: 39). Zakat is [obligatory] in ten things: livestock, grains, fruits, spoils (ghana'im), treasures, and money. This is explained in the Book of Jurisprudence (Kitab al-Fiqh) by Abu Shuaib; hence, we dispense with the explanation of its specific conditions here.

The Zakat on wealth is one-quarter of a tenth (2.5%) in every year; which is one out of every forty dirhams. This is because Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, created thirty-nine wealthy people and created