Question: Describe the treasury in an Islamic state.

Question: Describe the treasury in an Islamic state. Answer: As has already been noted, taxes in Islam are restricted to khums, zakat, jizya and kharaj which are all sent to the Treasury and from this money the various organs of an Islamic state are funded.

Seeing that the administration of the state is run so simply, it does not need that much money and therefore the people under an Islamic government are happy since they do not have to pay tax and the government is content because the burden of expenditure is not heavy. Question: What do you mean when you speak of freedom within Islam?

Answer: Since the apparatus of an Islamic government is uncomplicated, the people correspondingly enjoy the maximum freedom and thus they have a free unrestricted rein when it comes to farming, trading, industry, travelling, building, where to live, the possession of anything that is permissible (from the standpoint of the Shari‘a) and so forth. For all this freedom there are no taxes to pay and similarly there is no obligatory work to do such as military service.

Man’s needs are met simply and in the same way the judiciary is run on uncomplicated lines and so are trade transactions and those involving pawning and renting and the like. For instance, buying and selling is carried out speedily and can be summed up by the seller saying, “I sell (something or other)”, or to that effect, and the reply of the purchaser, “I accept” and then writing down on an ordinary piece of paper what has been transacted with the signature of two witnesses.

This simplicity is a common feature of life in an Islamic state. Question: How does Islam deal with the problems of the people? Answer: Because Islam only recognizes the existence of crucial problems, does not impose any taxes upon commodities or work and also the fact that the apparatus of government is kept to a minimum, the problems you see today in the nations around the world would not exist under Islamic rule.

Only issues of prime significance will remain, such as judicial proceedings, criminal offences and, thirdly, actions which are contrary to Islamic law such as building a house that overlooks another and the like, theft, murder, drinking alcohol and so on. These three categories are dealt with speedily by Islam to the extent that they should no longer be regarded as problems at all. Consequently one judge is enough for a whole town.