An Inquiry into the Nature of Religious Dues in the Light of Islamic Taxes

Religious dues is not a jurisprudential phrase but a term used by people in two general and specific meanings. The general meaning includes all forms of Islamic financial rights and the specific meaning includes the financial rights with a taxation nature technically called Islamic tax. This study seeks to examine religious dues in its specific meaning in a bid to explore its reality and nature so that by so doing the concept of Islamic taxes could be further clarified towards creating harmony between economy and culture and finally resolving economic dilemmas especially in the area of taxes.