[15]. This is a timely moral reminder to the believers, urging them to spend generously from their wealth.
[16]. The hoarded gold and silver and money whose the poor-rate was not paid from it.
Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said: "Anyone whom Allāh has given wealth but he does not pay its Zakāt [the poor-rate]; then, on the Day of Resurrection, his wealth will be presented to him in the shape of a bald-headed poisonous male snake with two poisonous glands in its mouth and it will encircle itself round his neck and bite him over his cheeks and say, ‘I am your wealth; I am your treasure."
The Messenger (ﷺ) also said: “They are the worst losers by the Lord of the Kaʿbah!” I said: “O Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)! Who are they?” He said: “They are the wealthiest. Except the one who does like this, and this, and this – ˹gesturing open-handed spending˺ from his front, back, right and left – but few are these really. No owner of camels, cows and sheep who does not give out their due zakah, except them coming on the Day of Judgement as big and fat as they have ever been, butting him with their horns and trampling him with their hooves. When the last of them has finished doing so, the first comes around to do the same to him ˹again˺, until the Judgement of ˹all˺ people has finished.”
[17]. The 1st, 7th, 11th, and 12th months of Islamic calendar.
[18]. In particular, and during all the months of the year in general.