Ummayad Calips & Taxes | Mufti Abu Layth

the Oma cffs coming back to that question they they were taxing people but it's not you see when you say they invented extra taxes for non-arabs it is true but not in this in that sense you see because when you say it like that it sounds like they came to a place and said oh you Arab okay you go here you non-arab you line up there and you pay tax it wasn't quite like that it's just most everybody that

whole region was non-arab they weren't Arabs so in that sense if you're saying well did they start a new tax system with them and things they did and were they non-arabs they were so did they introduce new tax systems to non-arab they did but it's not quite in that way structured quite like that it's just they found themselves ruling over new territories most of whom were not Arabs um what they then did was inherited some of the structural uh

administrations uh sorry administrative processes on how to tax so you have to remember the AR Arabian Peninsula and places like that weren't as fertile as the northern kingdoms and when they've reached like Persia and these kind of places and Beyond what would be Modern Day Iran modern day parts of Afghanistan these regions you know they were in they had a lot of like very fertile and more than that they already had a history a legacy

of you know the the Persian Dynasty ruling over them that had a sophisticated uh structure set up on how contracts on how you will deal with the lands and how you will give us this and do that and and the Arabian Peninsula didn't have anything like it did have very basic primitive compared to that they were primitive so yeah so they ended up it's a bit like saying like imagine you were in a somewhere like rural Pakistan and all of a sudden you move to

places like Paris or London now places like Paris and London have completely different Market structures and they already have an economic structure set up so you would inherit that and they would have different so here like let's say in the UK you would have taxes set at 20% but once you hit a certain band it now increases to 40% once you hit another band it hit increases again so whereas if you're just dealing with rural Pakistan they probably don't have it like that but when you inherit this system you will then go with these taxes

and that's what they did as well but they what I'm I'm not trying to justify the cause I'm just explaining that yes it is true that if you're asking you didn't ask the question were they racist and discriminatory they were discriminatory to non-arabs but I don't think the tax system was because they didn't like non-arabs I don't think it was because of that and I don't think it's that they didn't like non-arabs I think they probably did like them and they didn't mind non- Arabs but they felt that the pure Arabs

were first class above them so there's a difference there is a difference between that and not liking like the way Hitler hated the Jews they weren't like that towards non-arab they didn't hate on Arabs like that