Originally Posted by
Laly
If you don’t know that Islam makes a big difference treatment between Muslims and non-Muslims, then you are really ignorant about Islam.
Muslims are superior according to Islam and the “people of the book” have the humiliating status of dhimmi, when they are under Islamic rulers.
“So do not weaken and do not grieve, and you will be superior if you are [true] believers.” (surah 3:139)
“You are the best nation produced [as an example] for mankind. You enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong and believe in Allah . If only the People of the Scripture had believed, it would have been better for them. Among them are believers, but most of them are defiantly disobedient. (surah 3:110)
The verse 9:29 is absolute ugliness. It’s one of the jihad’s verses:
“Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful and who do not adopt the religion of truth from those who were given the Scripture – fight until they give the jizyah willingly while they are humbled.”
And we see that the payment of the jizyah must be done in a state of humiliation (wa houm saghiroun). Ibn-Khaldoun wrote: “A tribe pays the taxes only after being resigned to the most humble submission: fiscal docility. The taxes are a mark of the submission and of the oppression that the proud souls can’t stand, unless they prefer death.” (Ibn-Khaldoun, Discours sur l’histoire universelle, translation Monteil, volume 1, p. 281, Imprimerie catholique, Beirut, 1967.)
It is the jurist Mawardi, in the XIth century, who really defined dhimmi status. His considerations on it, based on elements from the Quran and the Sunnah, have had great repercussions on the different Islamic legal schools, on the different sharias, bringing a great model of dhimma contract. Apart from the clause on the obligation to pay the special tax that is the jizyah, there are other dispositions:
“[The dhimmis] mustn’t attack nor degrade the sacred Book of the Muslims; nor accuse the prophet of lies or quoting him with contempt; nor speaking about the Islamic religion in order to blame it or to contest it; nor undertaking a Muslim woman in order to have illicit relationships with her or to marry her; nor diverting a Muslim from his faith nor harming a Muslim or his goods; nor helping the enemies or welcoming their spies.”
Mawardi also recommends that “the dhimmi wear a dinstinctive sign (al-ghiyar) and a special belt (al-zinnar); they can’t elevate constructions higher than the ones of the Muslims; they can’t sound their bells [but they are obliged to hear the horrible sound of the muezzin so many times a day...], they can’t read their books and their pretentions relative to Ozeyr [the son of God for the Jews, cf. Surah 9:30] and to the Messiah; they can’t drink wine publicly or exhibit porks and crosses publicly; they are obliged to inhume their death people secretly, without showing tears and lamentations; they are forbidden to use horses, them being pureblood or half-blood, but they can use mules and donkeys”.
These excerpts come from Mawardi, Les status gouvernementaux ou règles du droit public et administrative, translation by Fagnan, Typographie Jourdan, Algiers, 1915.
The status of dhimmi encompasses public and penal restrictions. There is no equality between the Muslims and the dhimmis.
For example, when the Coptic Boutros Ghali Pasha was assassinated by a Muslim in 1910 and the tribunal condemned the culprit to a death penalty. But then, the grand mufti declared the judgement contrary to the Islamic law because a Muslim murderer can’t be subjected to a death penalty for having killed an infidel, so the judgement was annulled. (Gabriel Baer, Studies in the social history of modern Egypt, University of Chicago press, Chicago, 1969, p. 451)
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