The General Imports of Beit al-Mal/ (Money House) In the Arabic-Islamic Caliphate (The Unusual Imports as a Sample)

Abstract

The economic systems brought by Islam have a significant impact on the lives of the nations that entered Islam as the financial position of any country represents accurately reflects the strength or weakness of the state. The politics of any country is its financial system with its resources and banks, and the fiscal policy of each country is based on balancing its resources and expenses. The Islamic Caliphate maintained a financial balance, one day it did not resort to the right to bargain against the rights of the Islamic nation in exchange for a financial cover, however, the money was available at the money house, and the guardian of the house of money was only the faithful, the money came to Beit al-Mal (money house) from various sources, mainly zakat (Alms). When talking about the economic heritage of the Arab Islamic Caliphate, we find ourselves in front of a coherent and tightly knit heritage system, which has illuminated the Arab-Islamic civilization and achieved the happiness of humanity. The economic system in the Arab Islamic Caliphate is part of the Islamic system that has remained and is still a great monument that will not be able to destroy the scars of fraud and malicious distortion, and it will not be able to distort the corrupt pens (even if some of them are back). And the systems established by the Muslims were unable to do so. The most prominent Islamic financial systems in Islam are fairly independent of all financial systems in the world. The most important principles of these systems are the rules of the wholeness approved by the Holy Quran and the Prophetic Sunnah. Subdivided branches are measured according to the evolution of conditions. The researchers differed in their classification of the general resources of the Money House in Islam according to the criteria on which they measure. However, they are limited to two sections: the first is the annual or periodic revenues. This means the resources that are collected in a certain period as the abscess. The second part is the non-annual or periodic revenues. It means the resources collected regardless of the criteria of time, such as the tenth of the trade, the wine, the fifth of spoils, the fifth of metals, the ore and the legacy of the deceased, and the money of the shot and all that is not known to him. The Arab Islamic Caliphate has followed this policy since its inception, where it established the House of Money, which is based on maintaining the Muslims' money and preserving it and not to dispose of it except as required by the benefit of Muslims. It is really like the Ministry of Finance, and its owner is acting as Minister of Finance at present. It is known that the most important imports of the House of Money in the Islamic Caliphate are: Zakat, Al-Ghanimah, Al-Faya which includes Al-Kharaj, Al-Jaziya and Al-Ashoor.

Keywords

zakat - Quran