Note 4 — H. KEVORKIAN COLLECTION
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The treaty concluded by Habib b. Maslama with the people of Dabil in Armenia ran as follows: "In the name of God the merciful, the clement. This is a letter from Habib b. Maslama to the people of Dabil, Christians, Magians, and Jews, such of them as are present and such of them as are absent. Verily I guarantee the safety of your lives, properties, churches, temples and city walls; ye are secure, and it is incumbent upon us faithfully to observe this treaty so long as you observe it and pay the poll-tax and the land-tax. God is witness, and he sufficeth as a witness."—Qur'an, V. 104. Concerning the acceptance of the Poll-Tax from Zoroastrians, as well as from Jews and Christians. A. von Kremer's "Kulturgeschichte d. Orients," Vol. I, page 59.