On the topic of zakat vs. jizya (discussed near the end of the video), it’s interesting that zakat is a tax on inactive wealth, to encourage fiscal stimulus of the economy.
If all of a Muslim’s capital is actively deployed in society however (i.e. they are not hoarding), you could conceivably have no zakat payable, according to the rules. However, the jizya (as far as I know) is a flat tax, not a tax on undeployed capital.
More comparisons here: https://themmindset.wordpress.com/2013/05/19/difference-between-jizya-and-zakat/
More importantly, isn’t it odd that for a religious book for all time and all peoples (i.e. the Qur’an), which according to Ahmadi Muslims does not support a theocracy, that it has provisions and guidance for how to tax those of a different religion?
Why not mandate a unified tax to emphasize that Muslims and non-Muslims are to treat each other with equality on earth?
Just like Muslims can offer optional fasts and prayers, the zakat could have been an optional financial gesture over and above the universal tax that emphasized the common brotherhood of all humanity.
The zakat due only of Muslims could have shown how Muslims, as God’s ‘best of people’ go over and above to spend of their wealth toward charity. Curious, isn’t it?