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Moses who suckled her child and took her wage.” He who takes hire for the
Pilgrimage is similarly comparable to the mother of Moses; there is no harm in
his doing so, for he takes it in order to have the possibility of making the
Pilgrimage and visiting the Holy Places. He does not go on Pilgrimage to get the
hire, but the other way round, just as Moses‟ mother accepted payment to
facilitate her suckling by concealing her condition.
Shunning Unlawful Taxes
2. The Pilgrim should not aid the enemies of Allah by paying tolls to those
Makkan chiefs who bare the way to the Sacred Mosque, or Bedouin who lurk
along the road. To pay these people is to encourage tyranny and to make it easy
for them, for it is like giving them moral support. The Pilgrim should therefore
devise some means of escape from such payment. If he is not capable of this,
then according to some scholars (and it is not a bad opinion) it is better to turn
back and abandon non-obligatory Pilgrimage rather than give assistance to
tyrants, for this is a heretical innovation and acquiesance would tend to give it the
force of custom. This form of taxation is degrading and humiliating to the
Muslims.
Pilgrimage is similarly comparable to the mother of Moses; there is no harm in
his doing so, for he takes it in order to have the possibility of making the
Pilgrimage and visiting the Holy Places. He does not go on Pilgrimage to get the
hire, but the other way round, just as Moses‟ mother accepted payment to
facilitate her suckling by concealing her condition.
Shunning Unlawful Taxes
2. The Pilgrim should not aid the enemies of Allah by paying tolls to those
Makkan chiefs who bare the way to the Sacred Mosque, or Bedouin who lurk
along the road. To pay these people is to encourage tyranny and to make it easy
for them, for it is like giving them moral support. The Pilgrim should therefore
devise some means of escape from such payment. If he is not capable of this,
then according to some scholars (and it is not a bad opinion) it is better to turn
back and abandon non-obligatory Pilgrimage rather than give assistance to
tyrants, for this is a heretical innovation and acquiesance would tend to give it the
force of custom. This form of taxation is degrading and humiliating to the
Muslims.