9:29 Fight back against those (who keep violating peace treaties and commit aggression 9:1-10 and) who do not believe in God, nor in the Last Day, nor do they accept what God and His Messenger have made mandatory, nor do they acknowledge the True Religion - among those who were given the scripture, until they pay war reparations in humility.
[‘Fight back’ (See 9:1-4 Tasreef) – against those who keep violating peace treaties and commit aggression. Jizyah = War Reparations to be paid by the aggressors, and not any kind of tribute or tax as generally but erroneously translated. Mufridaat-e-Raaghib. The Arabic word for tribute is “Kharajâ€. See 18:94 ‘Kharjan’]
Here is what N2I can do:
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009 %5C04%5C15%5Cstory_15-4-2009_pg7_5
Sikh families leave Orakzai after Taliban demand jizia
By Abdul Saboor Khan
HANGU: Sikh families living in Orakzai Agency have left the agency after the Taliban demanded Rs 50 million as jizia (tax) from them, official sources and locals said on Tuesday.
Residents of Ferozekhel area in Lower Orakzai Agency told Daily Times on Tuesday that around 10 Sikh families left the agency after the demand by the Taliban, who said they were a minority and liable to pay the tax for living in the area in accordance with sharia.
Locals said the Taliban had notified the Sikh families about the ‘tax’ around a week ago. They said of the 15 Sikh families in Ferozekhel, 10 had shifted while the remaining were preparing to do so.
The locals said the families were impoverished and had left the area to avoid any Taliban action.
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The Taliban, being literalist Muslims, are implementing the demands of the Quran.
The Quran clearly states:
Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.
This tax, implemented on non-Muslims was meant for people of the book (ie. Christians, Jews and Sabians) whereas others were to be given only the choice of conversion or death or enslavement as where the polytheists of the Arabian peninsula. Later liberal interpretations by some of the schools of jurisprudence allowed this tax to be leveled on others (so this is a liberal innovation and these are probably some of the 'moderate Taliban' we have been hearing about lately).
The Jizya is meant as a humiliation and abasement of non-Muslims who under Islamic rule decline to become Muslims but instead purchase their lives by making this yearly payment:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhimmi
In his commentary on Sura 9:29, Ibn Kathir writes that dhimmis must be:
disgraced, humiliated and belittled. Therefore, Muslims are not allowed to honor the people of the dhimma or elevate them above Muslims, for they [dhimmis] are miserable, disgraced, and humiliated.[104]
As recommended by many Muslim scholars, jizya was to be collected in a humiliating procedure:
[T]he collector remains seated and the infidel remains standing..., his head bowed and his back bent. The infidel must place money on the scales, while the collector holds him by his beard and strikes him on both cheeks.(Al-Nawawi)[109]
Jews, Christians, and Majians must pay the jizya... on offering up the jizya, the dhimmi must hang his head while the official takes hold of his beard and hits
Following this
On the day of payment they
The dhimmis posture during the collection of the jizya – [lowering themselves] by walking on their hands, reluctantly; on the authority of Ibn ’Abbas (al Tabari).[113]
Some scholars explicitly link this ritual to the interpretation of Sura [Qur'an 9:29], that jizya was not merely to be a tax, but also a symbol of humiliation:[108]
[Saaghiruuna means] submissively... by coercion... [’an yadin means] directly, not trusting the trickery of an intermediary... by force... without resistance... in an unpraiseworthy manner... while you stand [and the dhimmi] sits with the whip in front of you [you take] the money while he has dirt on his head. (Al-Suyuti's tafsir on Sura 9:29)[114]
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Harbans Singh
Sikh families leave Orakzai after Taliban ---
Islamabad: Members of Pakistan's minority Sikh community living in the restive Aurakzai tribal region have paid Rs 2 crore as 'tax' to the Taliban after militants forcibly occupied some of their homes and kidnapped a Sikh leader.
The Taliban had demanded Rs 5 crore as jizia, a tax levied on non-Muslims living under Islamic rule, but the militants finally settled for Rs 2 crore.
After the amount was paid on Thursday, the militants vacated the homes they had taken over and released Sikh leader Saiwang Singh, officials in the tribal region near the northwestern city of Peshawar were quoted as saying by the Daily Times newspaper.
The officials said the Taliban had announced that the Sikhs were now free to live anywhere in Aurzakzai Agency. The militants also announced they would protect the community, saying that no one would harm them after they had paid jizia.
Sikhs who had left the area would now return to their homes and resume their business, the officials said.
The militants had occupied at least 10 homes of Sikhs in Qasimkhel village on Tuesday. About 35 Sikh families have been living in Qasimkhel for many years.
The Taliban demand for jizia was resolved at a jirga or council held yesterday through the efforts of local tribal elders. The militants had said the Sikhs should pay jizia in accordance with Shariah or Islamic law.