Ibn Khaldun's Theory of Umran: How can Muslim Countries benefit from his thought in development

Maintain Healthy Political Set-up and Socio-economic Climate through:
 Maintain unity and adherence to nation and national affiliation or what Ibn Khaldun called Asabiyyah based on group feeling and Islamic Shariah objectives, and normative moral, ethical, and cultural values by promoting Islamic norms and humanitarian objectives, rather than focusing only, on texts in economical activities and practices, such as Istekhlaf, Righteous deed, Halal, Roshd, Tawasut …etc. Asabiyyah also should be taken in the favorable meaning and context not in the wrong meaning of inflexibility and narrow-mindedness.
 Allowing freedom and democracy and protect human rights and respect diversifications of cultures and religions.
 Preventing corruption and bribery and favoritism particularly among rulers and state officials.
 Maintain justice through collection and distribution of Zakat and moderate taxation systems. When building moderate taxation system government should follow Ibn Khaldun taxation model within which, he supports lowering taxation burden on producers or supply side in general, in line to persuade them by greater profits to them as well as greater revenue to the government, because when government imposes Shari'ah compliant low taxes on producers, they will make profit. Consequently increase in number and size. As a result government surplus will increase which, in turn, lead to more expenditure in development and welfare. He said (At the beginning of a dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessment. At the end of a dynasty, taxation yields a small revenue from large assessment. The reason for this is that when the dynasty follows the way (Sunan) of the religion, it imposes only such taxes as are stipulated by the religious law, such as charity taxes, the land tax, and the poll tax. They mean small assessments, because, as everyone knows the charity tax on property is low. The same applies on charity tax on grain and cattle, and also to the poll tax, the land tax and all other taxes required by the religious law. They have fixed limits that cannot be overstepped), Ibn Khaldun (Quoted by Abdul Azim Islahi, 2006).
Taxation system should also be instructed and considered as one of the main part of public finance. Its significance appears from the importance of government expenditures which should be allocated in development and welfare. Government should keep away from wastefulness and excessive luxuries and avoid unfavorable results of inequity and bias in tax burden.
 Government should not intervene market and let the forces of supply and demand to determine prices of products and services, but in the same time has to supervise market and protect it from Gharar, Riba …etc.
 Maintaining peace and security through well prepared and qualified independent authorities.
 Strengthen defense force but keep it away from politics.

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