Khums: Khums on Gifted Spousal Income Used for Cooperative Shares

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Khums: Khums on Gifted Spousal Income Used for Cooperative Shares

English:

Question #949:

My wife and I work at the ministry of education and she regularly gives me her monthly salary as a gift. I have spent an amount to buy shares of a farming cooperative of the department of education employees, of which I am a member. I do not remember whether that amount was from my own salary or from my wife’s. As the savings of my wife’s salary at the end of my khums year are less than the total amount of her yearly earnings, is the amount mentioned liable to khums?

Answer #949:

The amount from your own salary that you saved or spent on buying shares in the cooperative is liable to khums, unlike the amount given by your wife as a gift, provided that it is not a formal and fake gift and is within her station. Similarly, the amount about which you are uncertain whether it is from your own salary or from your wife’s gift is not liable to khums, although it is a caution to pay its khums or make muṣālaḥah its khums for an amount of money.

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