9. THE WISDOM BEHIND MAINTAINING THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK
I contemplated about why Jews and Christians are still among us and that we take tax (jizyah) from them. I found the wisdoms behind it to be amazing. One of them being that Islam gains strength from the jizyab, another being that Islam’s strength became apparent by their submission.
However, I contemplated another interesting wisdom, which is that maintaining The People of the Book in our midst, and their practice of their religious rituals proves that there were previous Prophets and revealed religions, and that our Prophet (pbuh) is not an innovated Messenger.
In fact, Jinns confessed the presence of a Creator and previous Messengers. This shows that we did not innovate what was not prior. They persevere on their falsehood, and continue to pay jizyah, so how could we not persevere upon the truth that we possess. Currently, we are in control, so keeping The People of the Book is a form of our respect of the partial truth that they possess. So let contemplators contemplate, and users use his intellect.
(Source: al-Hafiz Abu’l-Faraj ibn al-jawzl [d. 597AH] “CAPTURED THOUGHTS being” a translation of his masterpiece ‘Sayd al-K hatir)
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