Lagats and various other "taxes"

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confusedlady123
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Lagats and various other "taxes"

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Unread post by confusedlady123 » Thu Jan 07, 2016 8:59 am

What are these lagats that we have to pay everytime there is function, majlis, or any happy or sad occasion.
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confusedlady123
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Re: Lagats and various other "taxes"

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Unread post by confusedlady123 » Thu Jan 07, 2016 9:22 am

These lagats remind me of Abbasi Khalifa. He used to collect taxes from Zaereen who visited the holy shrine of Imam Hussain. Similarly our masjid Aamil and tanzeem collects lagats when you go to Karbala Hajj Umrah or any other places of Ziyarats.
For Hajj is 2500 indian rupees to 5000 per person dependening on your area and aamils mood.
For karbala its anything between 1200 to 2000.
Even Moghul Emperor Akbar abolished Jiziya, a tax collected from non muslim, whenever they visited their holy places.
One of my friend's son got married recently, he had to pay lagat at three various cties jamat. One at the place of residence, one at their native village, and one where the son was staying for education.
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Al-Noor
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Re: Lagats and various other "taxes"

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Unread post by Al-Noor » Thu Jan 07, 2016 11:49 am

normally lagat is taken as a rent for jamaat kahana which you are using for the functions, these money is used for paying electricity bills and for the maintenance.
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dawedaar
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Re: Lagats and various other "taxes"

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Unread post by dawedaar » Thu Jan 07, 2016 5:10 pm

Doesn't sabeel cover all that.. Sabeel was introduced by Hakimuddin Maula for that specific purpose!
Al-Noor wrote:normally lagat is taken as a rent for jamaat kahana which you are using for the functions, these money is used for paying electricity bills and for the maintenance.
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dawedaar
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Re: Lagats and various other "taxes"

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Unread post by dawedaar » Thu Jan 07, 2016 5:13 pm

All bohra religious Mafiosi from top to bottom become financial engineering experts once they join khidmat and this is 1 of the their financially engineered investment product with 0% returns. However, the clients never complain about it! :D
confusedlady123 wrote:What are these lagats that we have to pay everytime there is function, majlis, or any happy or sad occasion.
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