http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/08/egypt-islamic-supremacists-forcing-christians-to-pay-jizya-qurans-tax-on-non-muslims.html
Egypt: Islamic supremacists forcing Christians to pay jizya, Qur'an's tax on non-Muslims The Times calls the jizya "a seventh-century tax." That is broadly true, but they're following the standard dhimmi journalistic practice of exonerating Islam from every crime and atrocity done in its name. In reality, the jizya is a tax that non-Muslims must pay as a sign of their subjugation to the Muslims, and it is mandated in the Qur'an: "Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued." -- Qur'an 9:29 The Tafsir al-Jalalayn says that this when v. 29 specifies that Muslims must fight against those who follow not the Religion of Truth, it means those who do not follow Islam, which is firm and abrogates other deens [religions]. Ibn Kathir gives a hint as to why this is so when he explains that the People of the Book were in bad faith when they rejected Muhammad, and that they are not true believers even in their own religions: Therefore, when People of the Scriptures disbelieved in Muhammad, they had no beneficial faith in any Messenger or what the Messengers brought. Rather, they followed their religions because this conformed with their ideas, lusts and the ways of their forefathers, not because they are Allahs Law and religion. Had they been true believers in their religions, that faith would have directed them to believe in Muhammad, because all Prophets gave the good news of Muhammads advent and commanded them to obey and follow him. Yet when he was sent, they disbelieved in him, even though he is the mightiest of all Messengers. Therefore, they do not follow the religion of earlier Prophets because these religions came from Allah, but because these suit their desires and lusts. Therefore, their claimed faith in an earlier Prophet will not benefit them because they disbelieved in the master, the mightiest, the last and most perfect of all Prophets. As-Sawi specifies that the payment of the jizya signifies that the non-Muslims are humble and obedient to the judgements of Islam. As-Suyuti notes that the jizya is not taken from someone in a state of hardship, although that was a stipulation at times honored in the breach. For example, a contemporary account of the Muslims conquest of Nikiou, an Egyptian town, in the 640s, says that it is impossible to describe the lamentable position of the inhabitants of this town, who came to the point of offering their children in exchange for the enormous sums that they had to pay each month This was a manifestation of the state of abasement specified by this verse and spelled out by the Bedouin commander al-Mughira bin Sad when he met the Persian Rustam. Said al-Mughira: I call you to Islam or else you must pay the jizya while you are in a state of abasement. Rustam replied, I know what jizya means, but what does a state of abasement mean? Al-Mughira explained: You pay it while you are standing and I am sitting and the whip hanging is over your head. Similarly, Ibn Kathir says that the dhimmis must be disgraced, humiliated and belittled. Therefore, Muslims are not allowed to honor the people of Dhimmah or elevate them above Muslims, for they are miserable, disgraced and humiliated. The seventh-century jurist Said ibn al-Musayyab stated: I prefer that the people of the dhimma become tired by paying the jizya since He says, until they pay the jizya with their own hands in a state of complete abasement. As-Suyuti elaborates that this verse is used as a proof by those who say that it is taken in a humiliating way, and so the taker sits and the dhimmi stands with his head bowed and his back bent. The jizya is placed in the balance and the taker seizes his beard and hits his chin. He adds, however, that this is rejected according to an-Nawawi who said, This manner is invalid. Zamakhshari, however, agreed that the jizya should be collected with belittlement and humiliation. Muslim spokesmen in the West routinely claim that this verse has no applicability in the modern world. They're lying. "Egypts Copts in hiding after churches are burnt," from the Times of London<http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/middleeast/article3852332.ece#tab-4>, August 26 (thanks to Patrick Poole<https://twitter.com/pspoole/status/371924399776989184> ): Dozens of churches, homes and businesses have been set alight and looted in Egypt, forcing millions of Christians into hiding amid the worst bout of sectarian violence in the countrys modern history. Some Coptic Christian communities are being made to pay bribes as local Islamists exploit the turmoil by seeking to revive a seventh-century tax, called jizya, levied on non-Muslims.... Posted by Robert <http://www.jihadwatch.org/> on August 26, 2013 5:25 AM [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
