مسائل المنتخبه (Articles Of Islamic Acts) - الخوئي، السيد أبوالقاسم - الصفحة ٣٨٥ - USE OF KHUMS
compromise with him, the zimmi should pay Khums.
١٨٤٢. If a zimmi is a minor and his guardian.
purchases land for him, the recommended precaution is that while
concluding the transaction a condition should be imposed that he will
pay Khums on it.
USE OF KHUMS
١٨٤٣. Khums should be divided into two parts
Sayyids are "titled to get one part of it and it should be given to a
sayyid who is indigent or an orphan or who hasbecome penniless while
travelling. The second part belongs to the holy Imam and during the
present time it should be given to a fully qualified mujtahid or spent
for suchpurposes as may be confirmed by that mujtahid. In case, however,
a person gives the share of the holy Imam to a mujtahid whom he does
not follow he should, on the basis ofobligatory precaution, obtain
permission in this behalf from the mujtahid whom he follows and such a
permission will be accorded only when he knows that both the
mujtahidsspend the share of the holy Imam in one and the same manner.
١٨٤٤. An orphan sayyid to whom Khums is given
should be indigent. However, Khums can be given to a sayyid who becomes
penniless although in his home town he may notbe indigent.
١٨٤٥. If the journey of a sayyid, who becomes
penniless while journeying, is sinful he should not, on the basis of
obligatory precaution, be given Khums.
١٨٤٦. Khums on be given to a sayyid, who is not just but it should not be given to a sayyid who is not ithna Ashari
١٨٤٧. Khums should not be given to a sayyid if
he is sinful and the property given to him by way of Khums helps him in
indulging in sins And it is better not togive. Khums even to a
The descendant of the Holy Imams.