Recitation 347.13

أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
ألسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
Dear Quran Lovers,
Thank you Quran Lovers for understanding and do not want me to recollect the unpleasant memories of the past. To me, they were but blessings of Allah in disguise. What happened were tests from Allah s.w.t. of my Faith to Him s.w.t. With the sufferings there were inner self powers to do evil things given to me then. If I accepted the powers, I would be a a male-witch. Then, at times I was asked to kill a baby, and at times, to hurt some innocent people. I had disobeyed them. All those times, I would perform my duties a Muslim should without fail. At nights, I could not sleep, I would read and studied the Tafsir/ commentary of the Quran, the Hadith and the Fiqh and others Islamic books. During the days I went to work. It was more than ten years/a decade I was in that state of mind and body. After that, Allah showed me a way out, and Alhamdulillah, I had recovered.
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Let us now continue to look into the Zakah (viii) For The Livestock:
(iii) Goats and Sheep:
      Nishob                       Payable as its/their Zakah         Its age
 40 to 120 goats/         1 female goat                                       over 2 years old
                 sheep       1 female sheep                       over 1 year old.
 121 to 200 goats/     2 female goats                         over 2 years old.
                 sheep        2     "     sheep                          "    1  year old
 201 to 399 goats/     3     "      goats                          "     2 years old
                 sheep        3     "      sheep                         "     1 year old
 400 and more           4     "     goats                            "    2 years old
                                  4     "     sheep                           "     1 year old
   From 400 to 499 goats/sheep, the Zakah is 4 female goats of over 2 years old/4 female sheep of over 1 year old.
Then from 500 to 599  goats/sheep, the Zakah is 5 female gaots/sheep, 600 to 699, the Zakah is 6 female goats of over 2 years old/6 female sheep of over 1 year old, and so on. This is in accordance with the Hadith narrated by Ahmad, Bukhori and Muslim.
(ix)  Zakah For Hidden Treasure:
  When a hidden treasure is found, they belong to the person/s who found them.
The Nishob for the Hidden Treasure, according to Asy-Syafiei, it must be ascertained, but othe Imam, such as, Imam Malik, Imam Abu Hanifah and Imam Ahmad, were of the opinion that the Nishob of the treasure is not a condition that they be paid the Zakah. The rate of the Zakah is 1/5% (or 20%) of the treasure. This is in accordance with the Hadith narrated by Bukhori and Muslim.
(x)  Zakah For Mined Minerals, Metals, Precious Stones, and so forth:
  the Ulama were/are of the opinion that they are the same as the Gold, silver and Cash Money. The rate of Zakah is 2.5% (or be divided by 40).
(xi) Zakah For Products Of The Sea: such as pearls, sapphire, whales, fish and so forth : These are not Zakah payable. But Ahmad said, they were/are zakah payable when attained the Nishob.
Ibnu Abbas said, "Whales are not Zakah payable".
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Surah 2 Al-Baqoroh, verse 200: (to be continued).
Until we meet again in the next session, see you all Quran Lovers later.
والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
Abdul Hamid Mohd Yusof.