Jizya - The Humiliation Tax

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Deriving from the Quran, specifically Surah 9:29 we read:

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YUSUFALI: Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth,(even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.

PICKTHAL: Fight against such of those who have been given the Scripture as believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, and forbid not that which Allah hath forbidden by His messenger, and follow not the Religion of Truth, until they pay the tribute readily, being brought low.

SHAKIR: Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Messenger have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection.

So we read:
submission and feel subdued.
pay the tribute..being brought low,
acknowledgment of superiority and state of subjection


How was the humiliation seen when the tax was gathered?
In the book titled "The Dhimmi: Jews and Christians Under Islam" by Bat Ye'or and David Maisel page 201, we read:

9. The Manner of Collecting the Jizya

On ihe day of payment they shall be assembled in a public place like the 'suq'. They should be standing there wailing in the lowest and dirtiest place. The acting officials representing the Law shall be placed above them and shall adopt a threatening attitude so that it seems to them, as well as to the others, that our object is to degrade them by pretending to take their posessions. They will realize that we are doing them a favor (again) in accepting from them the jizya and letting them (thus) go free.

Then they shall be dragged one by one (to the official responsible) for the exacting of payment. When paying, the dhimmi will receive a blow and will be thrusl aside so that he will think that he has escaped the sword through this (insult)- This is the way that the friends of the Lord, of the first and last generations will act toward their infidel enemies, tor might belongs to Allah, to His Prophet, and to the Believers (p. 811)

al-Maghili (d. 1504),Ahkam ahl al-Dhimma, in G. Vajda. Un Traite

On an appointed day the Dhimmi, Christian or Jew, must present himself in person, and not through the intermediary of an agent (wakil), before the emir responsible for the collection of the jizya.
The latter must be seated on a chair raised in the form of a throne; the dhimmi will come forward bearing the jizya held in the middle of the of the palm of his hand, whence the emir will take it in such a way that his hand is above and the dhimmi's hand underneath.
Following this, the emir will strike the dhimmi on the neck, with his fist; a man will stand near the emir to chase away the dhimmi in hasle; then a second [dhnnmi] and a third will come forward to suffer the same treatment as well as all those to follow.
All [Muslims) will be admitted to enjoy this spectacle. None [of the dhimmis] will- be allowed to delegate a third party to pay the jizya in his stead. for they must suffer this degradation personally; for perchance they will eventually come to believe in Allah and His Prophet and will be consequently delivered from this distastefull yoke.(19: 107-8)