The Ushur (Tieth) (One tenth part of income)
It is to be clarified that just as Zakat is an obligatory act, in the same way among other obligatory acts of Vilayat, payment of Ushur is also an obligatory act. Every type of income earned from agriculture, trade, daily wages, monthly or annual income presents (futooh) offering (Nazar), property received in heritage etc, and gifts of any kind, there is no limit for it, either in small or large quantity it is obligatory on every sane and matured Mehdavi male and female to give 10th part in the way of Allah as Ushr.
There is no condition for payment of this amount whether one posseses taxable amount or not. It is obligatory on Fuqra (dependents on Allah) and needy people too. But the difference is that payment of Ushr is to be done only once but not every year as is done in respect of Zakat. Hzt. Mehdi Alaihis Salam not only practiced it, but strictly instructed his followers to do so. Since the time of Hzt. Mehdi Alaihis Salam this practice is continued till this day. All the saintly people (Murshids) have practiced it.
Allah says:-
(S2-267) O’ people who have faith in Allah, spend in the way of Allah from the money
you have
earned honestly and from those things which we produced from the earth for you.
Allah says:-
(S9-A103) Take charity from their wealth so that thou purify the and sanctify them.
It is written in Noorul Hadaya, in chapter Zakat-e-Khariji, that “Hzt. Rasool Khuda Sal'am used to take one tenth of honey, one sack (Mushk) for every ten sacks (Mushks) of honey was taken during his period and that the Prophet Sal'am had ordered for payment of Ushur”, Ushur is the share of saints, dependents on Allah who resigned to the will of Allah and poor and needy people. So it is narrated in the 10th chapter of Matan-e-Shareef and other books. Orders given in this regard, were strictly followed by saintly people (Religious leaders, Murshids).