The jizya Verse (Q. 9:29)

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The following is excerpt from an article about Jizya. It is by Prof Haleem considered one of the leaders in Quranic arabic :

The context of this phrase in the jizya verse requires that the thing being forbidden is something that the People of the Book ought not to be doing according to their belief in God and their own prophets, but must also connect to non-payment of jizya which is the cause for fighting them. It cannot relate to their food or drink, or what they say about God, because these are not given as causes for fighting them, and after paying the jizya  they will still be consuming these things and saying these things without being fought. The closest and most viable cause must relate to jizya, that is, unlawfully consuming what belongs to the Muslim state, which, al-Bayḍā wī explains, ‘it has been decided that they should give’ ,11 since their own scriptures and prophets forbid breaking agreements and not paying what is due to others.12 His Messenger in this verse has been interpreted by exegetes as referring to the Prophet Muḥammad or the People of the Book’ s own earlier messengers, Moses or Jesus, but the latter must be the correct interpretation as it is already assumed that the People of the Book did not believe in Muḥammad or forbid what he forbade. They are condemned for not obeying their own prophet, who told them to honour their agreements. To make sense in the context of the jizya verse, this must mean ‘they do not forbid breaking an agreement – something that God and His Messenger forbid’ . The agreement here was to pay jizya. It is not likely to mean that they should pay jizya when initially asked to do so. God and their prophet did not forbid refusing to pay what you are simply being asked to pay, but they did forbid going back on an agreement they have entered into. They forbid refusing to pay what is due to others (Q. 3:75– 8).

Therefore the proper context of the verse going against the people who did not honor the agreement to pay Jizya. If they did not want to pay it in the first place , nothing anybody can do.