Appointing an Agent to Collect Zakat and Getting Zakat by Force
Issue No. 1596- The Mujtahid can appoint someone to collect zakāt after wheat and barley are threshed and chaff is separated from grains, and when the dates and grapes become dry, and if the owners of these things refuse to pay zakāt, which is the right of the deprived, the designated person can get it from them by force.
