Fariqain`s Exegetic View on the Extension of Haqqun Ma`lum, a Right Acknowledged

There are different views on the "haqqun ma`lum" in the verse 24 of Ma`arej. Some, being documented by the famous view and traditions have considered it as being other than Zakat, while others, regarding it as a verse revealed in Medina, have considered it as being Zakat. regarding the differences of its being revealed in Mecca or Medina, there may be found three views on Zakat: some have known it as being religiously necessary, some as not being necessary and some as being the former in cases and not being necessary in other cases. The result of this research, after examining relevant points of view, is that commentators have confused the term between the technical and the literal meanings of the word zakat. In this way, the former and the latter both are incorrect. The verse seeks to point out that financial payments, including giving gifts, i`ita, giving charity, infaq, alms giving, sadaqeh, a fifth, khomos, and poor-due, zakat, are the causes for becoming pure from ill morality.