Diversity Macht Frei
March 26, 2016
According to the initial elements of the investigation, he played an important role in financing the network, handing over part of the earnings from his robberies and re-selling stolen goods, in the name of the Muslim principle of Ghanima (sharing the spoils of war).
In Islamic tradition, khums (Arabic: خمس Arabic pronunciation: [xums], literally ‘fifth’) refers to the historically required religious obligation of Muslim army to pay one-fifth of the spoils of war, the booty collected from non-believers after a military campaign; this tax was paid to the caliph or sultan, representing the state of Islam.
… Ghanima The items eligible for khums are referred to as ghanima →”الْغَنيمَة” in the Quran. The Arabic word ghanima (also referred to as ghanimah, ghana’im, ightindm in Africa and Asia)[14][15] has been interpreted to have several meanings:[1] spoils of war, or war booty looted or confiscated from enemy / nonbelievers (of Islam) profit minerals or any other form of buried treasure[16]