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hand to mouth, or a salaried employee earning monthly income, or a landlord receiving monthly rent of his rented houses or shops, or a farm owner harvesting crops biannually or annually, then it is mandatory for the daily wage-earner to save a day’s wage, a month’s salary for the salaried employee, a month’s rent for the landlord and six months or a year’s crops for the farm owner. Furthermore, it is absolutely mandatory to retain the main source of income such as tools, shop, house etc. as per needs.
5. If such a scholar who is busy issuing Fatawa and eradicating corrupt beliefs, possesses wealth and property and thus is free to fulfil these religious obligations – and neither does he receive stipend from the treasury department nor is there any other scholar who could fulfil these obligations in lieu of him, making it Fard for him to carry on with religious obligations – it is Wajib for him in this case to retain the main source of his income and save as much as money as he needs. If he spends all of his wealth, he will have to engage himself in any sort of work to meet his needs, affecting the fulfilments of those religious obligations.
6. If there are also some other scholars who could carry out these obligations, it will no longer be Wajib for him to retain the main source of his income and save the required amount of money, but he is still strongly advised to do that because remaining affluently free for the propagation
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