What is the ruling on the taxes imposed on Muslims?
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The questioner : My question, if you please.
The Shaykh: Go ahead.
The questioner : The taxes that are imposed on us.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : Are they lawful, for example, or what is the validity of their lawfulness?
The Shaykh : When the state rules by what Allah has revealed and takes what Allah has made obligatory upon His servants:[Al-Ma'arij 70:24-25], when the state implements the Islamic economic system and then finds that the funds available to it in the public treasury are not sufficient to carry out the interests of the people, it then imposes a tax that is commensurate with people's wealth, their riches, their poverty, and so on. Under this condition, such taxes are permissible; otherwise, the following applies to us, may Allah protect us: [Al-Baqarah 2:61].
The questioner : Yes, because the Shaykh said it in the sermon!
The Shaykh : What does it have to do with the Shaykh?!
The questioner : That is, we have moved on from this; we did not pay their taxes, so we consider ourselves to be in a state of sin.
The Shaykh: Go ahead.
The questioner : The taxes that are imposed on us.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : Are they lawful, for example, or what is the validity of their lawfulness?
The Shaykh : When the state rules by what Allah has revealed and takes what Allah has made obligatory upon His servants:
within whose wealth is a known right (25) For the petitioner and the deprived -
فِي أَمْوَالِهِمْ حَقٌّ مَعْلُومٌ * لِلسَّائِلِ وَالْمَحْرُومِWould you exchange what is better for what is less?
أَتَسْتَبْدِلُونَ الَّذِي هُوَ أَدْنَى بِالَّذِي هُوَ خَيْرٌThe questioner : Yes, because the Shaykh said it in the sermon!
The Shaykh : What does it have to do with the Shaykh?!
The questioner : That is, we have moved on from this; we did not pay their taxes, so we consider ourselves to be in a state of sin.
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