إسقاط الجزية عمن أسلم في عهد عمر بن عبد العزيز

إسقاط الجزية عمن أسلم في عهد عمر بن عبد العزيز

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Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz remitted the jizya for dhimmis who had embraced Islam, and wrote to his governors not to levy it on a convert who had testified to the two shahadas, faced the qibla and been circumcised. The book reports that an official complained the jizya was falling short because so many had converted, and Umar replied that the Prophet had been sent as a summoner, not a tax-collector ¹. The book attributes to this measure both a financial and a political effect: trust grew between ruler and ruled, and many dhimmis converted and began paying zakat in place of the jizya ². Umar also levied the jizya in three grades according to means, and lifted it from the poor who could not pay ³.