الإنماء

الإنماء

Inma is lexically the causing of an increase, and growth is an increase, either real, as by birth or trade, or assumed, as by property remaining in one's hand. ¹ It is narrower than ziyada, since ziyada may come from outside while inma comes from the thing itself. ² Growing property is lawful: the law allowed sale, trade, partnership and mudaraba, and the preservation of property is one of its purposes. ³⁴ Its ruling depends on the intention: it is obligatory to gain enough for oneself and dependants, recommended beyond that to help the poor, permitted for comfort, and disliked for boasting and rivalry. ⁴⁵ One who has control of property without owning it, such as a guardian, executor, agent, judge or supervisor, may grow it by lawful authority. ⁵⁶ Growth by what is unlawful, such as usury, gambling or trade in wine, is forbidden. ⁷ The other sense, the going out of sight of game after it is shot, is treated in the entry on hunting, with the disputed view of Ibn Abbas. ⁷⁸