The poor person is from rest, which is the opposite of movement, and death is rest. If the dead person moves, it is by someone else moving it, not by himself. The poor person is the one who is managed by someone else. For this reason, God has imposed on him that he should give zakat, and it should not be said about him that he takes it, and he is not characterized by need or lack of need. This is why we said about the poor person that he is what he is. Above him is the one who is more in need than him, for the poor person is the very person of the Muslim whose affairs are entrusted to God without his choice, rather the revelation gave him that, and for this reason we attached him to the dead, for the poor person is like the earth that God made for us subservient, so whoever is humiliated in his own humiliation under the glory of every Mighty One, whoever he may be, then that poor person is to be fulfilled, for glory belongs to God. His glory is evident in every dear person, and th