Page 435 - Bigotry: The Dark Danger

Adnan Oktar
(Harun Yahya)

Misunderstandings About War

and the Jizya

Fight those of the people who were given the
Book who do not believe in God and the

Last Day and who do not make forbidden

what God and His Messenger have made
forbidden and do not take as their religion

the religion of Truth, until they pay the jizya

with their own hands in a state of complete
abasement. (Qur'an, 9:29)

People who are misinformed about the true Islam generally
maintain that only the People of the Book are obliged to pay the jizya
(a kind of tax) referred to in the verse above and that this is an injus-
tice against non-Muslims. They interpret the words "fight [them] …
until they pay the jizya with their own hands" to mean that Muslims

must fight the People of the Book unless they convert to Islam and
pay the jizya. They are therefore suspicious of the Qur'an and Islam
(surely the Qur'an and Islam are beyond this).

However, there is a serious misunderstanding here.

First of all, it needs to be made clear that the jizya is a kind of tax.
Everyone living in a country has an obligation to pay taxes. In other
words, if someone is living in a Muslim country, he has to pay taxes,
whether or not he is a Muslim, and irrespective of his religion. There

is no discrimination regarding Muslims in a Muslim country not

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