Return of Hazrat Isa A.S.

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Re: Return of Hazrat Isa A.S.

@Bigboi

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"Legal theory does not necessarily equal actual practice. Many historians have pointed out that Muslim caliphs extended the ‘privilege’ of the jizyah to the Magian/Zoroastrian peoples of Persia and later to the Hindus of India. After all, the jizyah helped fill the caliph’s treasury, and some historians have argued that the early Muslims didn’t want non-Muslims to convert to Islam in its early years for this very reason. Nevertheless, the *jizyah *marked out Christians and Jews as being in a state of submission to Islam, and if they refused to pay it, they were breaking the terms of their original treaty that protected them and were thus open to Muslim attack. It was a demeaning reminder of their status under Islam. It’s no wonder that Christians and Jews under Ottoman rule in the 19[SUP]th[/SUP] century pressed hard for its abolition when the rising European colonial powers of Britain and France began pressuring the Ottomans to reform their government (a reform movement known as tanzimat).

To my knowledge, no Muslim governments have brought back the jizyah, though some Islamist groups have demanded it in recent years from Christians in places like Iraq and Pakistan. But any discussion of Muslim tolerance for other religions must take the jizyah into account. The evidence is clear that tolerance came at a cost, and a great one at that."
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you can read it in full @ http://stevengertz.blogspot.com/2009/12/jizyah-abolished-but-not-forgotten.html

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Peace Bigboi

The jizyah is still in force … nothing from an Islamic point of view has ended it. As long as there are harmful governments and poor in being then the premise of jizyah is always valid which is for:

a) protection of non-Muslim population
b) Re-distribution of wealth to the poor (which includes the amounts raised under zakat)

Jizyah had a purpose and that purpose still has not been fulfilled in the Shari’ sense … by abolishing jizyah we know that these two factors will not be prevalent - i.e. no poor and no oppressive regimes … when we see that that is when jizyah is rightfully abolished.