Relationship With The State
Ibn Abidin and other state-appointed muftis had a complex relationship with the state. They had fear of speaking out against the state. For example, Ibn Abidin adds a note at the end of one of his fatwas about taxes that criticizes the state’s collection of taxes. “But most of the extraordinary taxes imposed on the villages these days are not for preservation of either property or people, but are mere oppression and aggression and most of the expenses of the governor and his subordinates and the buildings of his residence and the residences of his soldiers and what he pays to the messengers of the sulton…levied in our country twice yearly and there are many sums on top of it that are taken as presents to his assistants and attendants…”
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