Akbar abolished the pilgrame tax called Jizya is a taxation historically levied in the form of financial charge on permanent non-Muslim subjects of a state governed by Islamic law in order to fund public expenditures of the state, in place of the Zakat and Khums that Muslims are obliged to pay. Muslim jurists required adult, free, sane males among the non-muslim community to pay the jizya, while exempting women, children, elders, handicapped, the ill, the insane, monks, hermits, slaves, and nonMuslim foreigners who only temporarily reside in Muslim lands. Non-Muslims who chose to join military service were also exempted from payment, as were those who could not afford to pay. Akbar abolished the tax on pilgrimage in 1563 and jizya in In 1679 Aurangzeb reintroduced the jizya, a poll tax for non-Muslims that had been abolished by Akbar a century earlier.