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- Subject: Re: ARAB UNITY
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- im@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Ibrahim M. M. Babelli) writes:
- Message-ID: <922118012106@ibm3090.bham.ac.uk>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 01:21:06 GMT
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- =Will you enlighten us about "Jizya", which was a religious tax extracted from
- =Non-Muslims by the Islamic Mughal empire which ruled over parts present-day
- =India, Pakistan and Afghanistan in the name of Islam ?
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- ="Jizya" I believe is an Urdu word but I'm not sure how to say it in Arabic.
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- Here is my Cent worth of opinion.
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- The law that was applied in islamic states when "Jizya" was charged to the
- non muslims is interesting. Let us examen it with thorough eye:
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- As men and women who lived in the state (the islamic state for this case)
- they had to contribute to the ways of expenditure that the state needed to
- sustain as much as possible a balanced society. Muslims paid alms or charity
- "zakaat", whereas non-muslims paid "Jizya". If you compare the figures for
- the two methods of taxation, jizya or zakaat, you will see that zakaat was
- slightly higher. For the most part, that is to my knowledge, jizya was used
- for civil projects and for defense purposes. The question as to why non-muslim
- should pay tax (jizya) to a muslim state is ill posed. I, not being American,
- pay taxes for the American Federal Government as long as I stay, live in
- and earn money in the United States.
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- As for the rest of your letter, I wish not to address it for lack of
- knowledge on my part.
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- im
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- Can I add the following question? What the kind of *TAX* do the
- Non-muslems within an Islamic state like to contribute to?
- Do they like to give AL Zakaat for instance?
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- ahmad
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