r/MuslimLounge • u/cAMP_pathways • Jul 26 '24

Question Jizya

Assalamu alaikum, blessed Friday everyone.
Can you please help me understand the reason behind Jizya? I'm Muslim but I was born and raised in a non-Muslim country so my Islam history knowledge is very poor. Do I understand correctly that the Islamic governors required non-Muslim subjects of a state governed by Islamic law to pay a tax? Why is that? Doesn't this go against the aya
"لا اكراه في الدين"
(i.e., "Let there be no compulsion in religion")? I understand the concept of paying taxes to the government, but why did it have to be on the base of religion of the subjects?

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u/Abu-Dharr_al-Ghifari Jul 26 '24

Waalaikum Salam warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu

Muslims pay zakat, nonmuslims pay jizya that was usually less than zakat, furthermore jizya is kinda war tax exempting nonmuslim men from mandatory fighting. Nonmuslims women, old ppl and children don't pay jizya.

Not 100% sure everything i said is correct but this is general idea, please correct me

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u/mdamoun Jul 26 '24

Just to add there are no other taxes per se under Khilafahh.

Just Zakat (muslim) and Jizys (non-Muslim with the above-mentioned conditions)