jizya in A Sentence

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    Though the Jizya introduced by the Delhi Sultans was only a nominal amount and was not regularly realised, it hurt the self- respect of Hindus.

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    In fact, they widened it by imposing a poll- tax( Jizya) upon the Hindus with the misguided motive of justifying the name of being an Islamic state.

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    Simultaneously, he raised taxes and Jizya, assessing it at three levels, and stopping the practice of his predecessors who had historically exempted all Hindu Brahmins from Jizya tax.

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    As soon as he had the reins of government firmly in his hands, he abolished the pilgrim tax and the Jizya in 1563, thus putting an end to the invidious distinction between his Hindu and Muslim subjects.

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    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.

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    As we have shown, the Delhi Sultanate was not an Islamic state, and even if it had been one, it had no right to impose the Jizya because the latter was meant by the rulers of the early Islamic state to be the price of exemption from compulsory military service which no longer existed.

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    In Yemenite Jewish sources, another treaty was drafted between Muhammad and his Jewish subjects, known as kitāb ḏimmat al-nabi, written in the 17th year of the Hijra(638 CE), and which gave express liberty unto Jews living in Arabia to observe the Sabbath and to grow-out their side-locks, but were required to pay the Jizya(poll-tax) annually for their protection by their patrons.

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