moammad 'ali chelongar

In the present study, the author, referring to the historical evidences, explores the argument over the indemonstrability of the obligatory Khums on the profits of earnings at the time of Holy Prophet (PBUH). While acknowledging the availability of adequate legal evidences for the obligatory Khums on the profits of the earnings at the present time, criticized and rejects the historical evidences concerning the obligatory nature of Khums on the profits of earnings during the Holy Prophet (PBUH)’s period. The findings of this research may be applied in the field of the jurisprudence in the line with the obligatory nature of Khums on the profits of earnings, even though the research approach adopted due to the evidences to which the jurisprudents refer in order to support the obligatory nature of Khums on the profits of earnings in the Holy Prophet (PBUH)’s period is a historical analysis. In this study, the most important evidences found concerning indemonstrability of the obligatory Khums on the  profits of earnings in the Holy Prophet (PBUH)’s period include the lack of evidence for supporting the Khums on the profits of earnings in the Holy Prophet (PBUH)’s period, the poverty among the Muslims in the Holy Prophet (PBUH)’s period, the shakable faith of newly Muslim people, and the contradiction between the obligation of Khums payment applied to the profits of earnings, while not excluding the annual expenditures, and the philosophy of Khums at that period of time.