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Would you consider having the IRS come after someone because they don't pay their taxes as using force? This is similar. Islamically, the poor have a right to
by azth 11y ago
Would you consider having the IRS come after someone because they don't pay their taxes as using force? This is similar.
Islamically, the poor have a right to get money from Zakat; which is paid by the rich. In other words, the rich owe money to the poor. This is a fundamentally different system from what we see today in most countries.
- SixSigma 11y agoYes, I would consider it force. A few posts ago you said it all worked nicely and there were no poor because people did their duty. But now in the Zakat system, you say that the rich are forced to give money to the poor. It is not fundamentally different from a basic social welfare economy like much of Europe.
- azth 11y agoIt's different in the sense how it is looked at. When you know that not all the money you have is your own, that part of it belongs to the poor, who have a right to claim it[0]. This is different from having it seen as a "burden" of sort. > A few posts ago you said it all worked nicely and there were no poor because people did their duty. Well, there is no contradiction between the two. The people did they duty and paid their Zakat. People were generally more pious back then. It wouldn't have been too hard for them to hide their money -- not everything was tracked the way it is today :-) [0] http://quran.com/70/24-25 http://quran.com/70/24-25