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A historian exaggerated when he added him to the level of those good and complying with their
religion from among the Orthodox Caliphs. However, the measures narrated from him in respect
with his fiscal policy and other than it from among the affairs of his general police clearly indicate
the opposite of that which his followers mentioned such that he was distinguished by fear of Allah
and sticking to the religion. That is because the nature of his fiscal police was selfish use,
plundering the wealth of the Muslims, spending a great part of the public treasury on the
mischievous and the dissolute. His nights were full of all kinds of singing and amusement. He
spent a lot of money on the slave girls and the singers while the community did not enjoy the
enormous revenues that came to the public treasury. The government did not appoint any
amount of money to spread knowledge and sciences and to send away ignorance from the Islamic
peoples. Besides it did not spend anything on developing the economy and industry in the
country.
When we carefully consider his other polices, we find that he faced the ‘Alawids and their
followers very severely and strictly. He treated them just as his grandfather al‐Mansur did through
the policy of violence, tyranny, and persecution, just as we will talk about that.
Any way, there is no relationship between the fear of Allah and righteousness ascribed to him
with the reality of his conduct and policy. Yes, without doubt, he was the most brilliant political
personality history has ever known in the Islamic world and other than it. That is because, through
his skill and ability, he was able to control most regions of the world, to the extent that his name
became brilliant in the east and the west. He got a wide reputation history has rarely recorded to
the kings and the sultans other than him. However the affair of this does not concern us; rather
the thing that concerns us is that his policy in all its plans was far away from the Islamic principles
that are the criterion, in reality, of the Islamic government. So whoever of the rulers applies them
to the reality of his policy, then he is of the Orthodox Caliphs we respect a lot. Whoever turns
away from them is not regarded as among the Muslim caliphs, and it was not correct for him to be
the representative of this Islamic, great office.
The following is a brief account of that which reported from Harun, whether in the political fields
or in the world of manners and morals; they all oppose the Islamic principles and do not suit any
firm program of them.
His Fiscal Policy
Before we speak about Harun’s fiscal policy, we have to deal with the fiscal policy in Islam. Islam
has taken very severe precautionary measures in respect with it. It has made it incumbent on the
state not to spend any of it on things other than the interests of the Muslims and their economic
development. It has not permitted the president of the state to choose for himself and his
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