hadith
6947
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Imam Ali (AS) said, The alms-tax of knowledge is granting it to the one who deserves it and exerting the self to act upon it.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : زَكاةُ العِلْمِ بَذْلُهُ لِمُسْتَحِقِّهِ وَ إجْهادُ النَّفْسِ فيِ العَمَلِ بِهِ
Similar narrations
- Ghurar al-Ḥikam #4834 Imam Ali (AS) said, The gratitude of a scholar for his knowledge is [in] his acting upon it and his sharing it with the one who deserves it.
- Mishkāt al-Anwār #715 Imam Sadiq (a.s) said: “There is an alms tax for everything. The alms tax for knowledge is teaching.”