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BULLSHIT.
The theocrat was the original 'high class'. The priests have been grifting the commons since day one. All knowing, all loving, all powerful god, WHO SOMEHOW NEEDS TEN PERCENT OF MY EARNINGS?
theology is a discipline of grift and deceiving the masses.
zakat is actually 2.5% of your hoarded (for a whole year) money that exceeds 87.48 grams of gold, given to the poor. Shouldn't that actually be a means to elimination of class ?
Doesn't sound particularly progressive. 87g of gold is like $10k and it's a flat rate. Empirically there are plenty of Muslim billionaires anyway, so it ain't working. Would be interesting to tot up billionaires per capita by religion but I don't think it would be particularly meaningful because the US skews everything, and how "practicing" someone is of their religion is impossible to measure.
Under an Islamic rule, the Muslim is forced to do this donation. And Muslim billionaires are not all of a sudden all pious because they have this label. Islamic law doesn't eliminate the need to study politics and sociology you know. Many Muslim scholars, claimed that it could in fact end the poverty in the Islamic world if really all obliged muslims paid their zakat (which is a requirement for Islam, not like a side quest, and should be enforced legally), among them Dr. Abd Al-Rahman bin Hamood Al-Sumait a humanitarian. This might appeal to you?: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2017/jun/22/zakat-requires-muslims-to-donate-25-of-their-wealth-could-this-end-poverty
"Doesn't eliminate the need to study sociology". Well, quite.