Khums: How to Set the Start Date of Your Khums Year

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Khums: How to Set the Start Date of Your Khums Year

English:

Question #991:

How does one specify the beginning of the year in order to pay one’s khums?

Answer #991:

There is no need to specify the beginning of one’s khums year, rather it is determined automatically depending on the nature of income. Thus, for workers, employees and the like the khums year begins on the date of receiving their first salary. As to merchants and shopkeepers, it begins when they start their work (buying and selling). However, farmers’ khums year starts at the time of first harvest.

-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Khums