"Mustaid Khan writes in MaÁsir-i-‘Àlamgiri: ‚As all the aims of the religious Emperor were directed to the spreading of the law of Islam and the overthrow of the practices of the infidels, he issued orders to the high Diwani officers that from Wednesday, the 2nd April 1679 / 1st Rabi I, in obedience to the Quranic injunction, ‚Fight those who do not profess the true faith (i.e. Islam) till they pay Jizya with the hand in humility,‛ and in agreement with the canonical traditions, should be collected from the infidels (zimmÍs) of the capital and the provinces. Many of the honest scholars of the time were appointed to discharge the work of collecting Jizya. May God actuate him (the Emperor) to do that which He (God) loves, and is pleased with, and make his future life better than the present.‛"
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