What distinguishes the intermediary in Zakat from the intermediary in the funeral-prayer example?

Quality of the Commanded Act: Intrinsic and Dependent Goodness

• Need is treated as a voluntary human act; the deceased’s Islam as an intermediary created without human choice
• Need is divinely created; the deceased’s Islam is treated as a voluntary human act
• Both are treated as intermediaries created without human choice, so both are disregarded in the classification
• Both are treated as voluntary human acts, so both remain intermediaries in dependent goodness