The Fiscal Rescript Of Umar II :: Islam Religion Essays

The Fiscal Rescript Of Umar IIFrom Umar b. Abd al Azz, Commander of the Faithful, to the governors Verily idol sent Muhammad with the Guidance and the Religion of law that He should make it supreme over every form of religion, cacoethes the associators of gods with God as they may. Koran, 934 And verily the religion of God wherewith He sent Muhammad is His Book which He sent down upon him, that God should be obeyed therein and that His command should be followed and what He has forbidden be avoided, and that His limits should be upheld and His ordinances observed, that what He has made unlawful should be prohibited, and that His right should be confessed and that men should be ruled by what He has revealed therein. Wherefore whoso follows the guidance of God is guided aright, and whoso turns away from it he hath erred from the even way. Koran 2108 And verity of love to God, as He has revealed in His Book, is that all men everywhere should be accuseed to Islam and that the gat e of emigration should be opened to all the people of Islam, that the alms and fifths should be applied according to the decree of God and His ordinances, and that men should seek their aliveness with their own possessions on land and sea, being neither hindered nor withheld. As for Islam, verily God sent Muhammad to all men everywhere, as He hath tell And we have not sent thee save universally to men as a messenger of good tidings and of warning. Koran 3428 And He hath utter O ye people, verily I am the Messenger of God to you all. Koran 7157 And God, blessed and exalted is He, hath said in that wherewith He commands the Believers in regard to the associators Then if they repent and observe the prayers and pay the zakt, they are your brethren in the Faith. Koran 911 This is His decree and law to follow it is obedience to God, to depart from it is rebellion. Wherefore summon to Islam and command thereto, for God hath said And who is better of speech that he who command to God, an d doeth good, and saith,I am indeed one of the Muslims. Koran 4132 Wherefore, whosoever accepts Islam, whether Christian or Jew or Magian, of those who are