"Here we may see what Emperor Qurangzeb’s order of 26 Wuly 1696, given in Mir’Át-iAhmadi, says about the rates of Jizya for the three classes – poor, middle class and rich: ‚Every year twelve Sirhams should be taken from a poor person, twenty-four Dirhams from a middle class man and forty-eight Dirhams from a rich person. If the Dirham, which is legal tender, is not available, an equivalent of it should be realized in silver, every year, weighing exactly 3 tolas, 1 masha and 6 3/5 gunjas from a poor person, double of it from a middle class man and double that of a middle class man from a rich person. When paid in rupees the equivalent of this weight should be taken‛. As regards the basis of determining the class to which a Jizya payer would be considered to belong by the Jizya collector, it says: ‚There is a lot of difference in the interpretation of the terms, a poor person, a middle class man and a rich person. According to the most reliable interpretation, ‘a poor person is he who possesses two hundred Sirhams or less than that; a middle class man is he who has more than two hundred Dirhams but less than ten thousand and a rich man is he who has more than ten thousand Dirhams in his possession.‛"