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=== When Omar heard Abu Bakr intended to fight those who: ===
* Say shahada
* Pray
* Claim to be Muslims
* Didn't deny Quran
* Only refused to pay tax to the capital

Omar said:

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This means Omar saw the conflict as political, not religious.

Abu Bakr responded with his famous sentence.

Notice:

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===== The Qur’an never says: =====

❌ “Kill the one who refuses zakat”
❌ “Fight a Muslim who doesn’t pay tax to the caliphate”

The Prophet never fought:
* Hypocrites who refused zakat
* Individuals who refused zakat in Mecca
* New Muslims who weren’t paying yet

===== Abu Bakr saw that if he allowed tribes to pay zakat locally: =====
* The young Islamic state would collapse
* Every tribe would become independent
* No national treasury
* No ability to support armies
* No unified state after the Prophet

So he made a state-building decision, not a “Shari‘ah ruling”.

Just like:
* ‘Umar suspended hadd of theft in famine
* ‘Uthman standardized the Qur’an
* ‘Ali relocated the capital
* Omar created diwans and salaries

These are all ijtihadat dawliya, not pure religious commands.