📎 Keywords
pouring: shower, stream
ریختن، باریدن
pouring rain:
بارش شدید
shady: shadowy
سایهدار
abundant: many, plenty
فراوان
Pond: lake
برکه
Spring: source
چشمه
The blood money for a woman is half that for a man. Is this ruling compatible with justice?
1⃣ Justice does not mean equality. It means putting each thing in its proper place. For this reason, God does not treat everyone the same. He rewards the good and punishes the wrongdoer. All Islamic criminal and legal rules are based on justice.
2⃣ Islam has a complete plan to bring people to true happiness. In this plan, everything has its place. The roles of men and women are defined, and their responsibilities and rights are set according to those roles.
3⃣ According to this plan sent by God, earning money for the family is the man’s duty. The woman has no duty or responsibility in this matter.
4⃣ For the same reason, the shares of men and women, and of brothers and sisters, in inheritance are different because their responsibilities are different.
5⃣ By the same rule, and because of the roles of men and women, if the victim is a man or a woman the blood money (diyah) is different. The diyah for a man is twice that for a woman. Therefore, if a man kills a woman, naturally half of the man’s diyah must be paid for him to be executed.
6⃣ It should be noted that the woman’s diyah being half of the man’s applies to murder and does not cover every kind of injury.
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Morality or Religious Rulings?
📜 Answer
1️⃣ By "morality," we do not mean non-religious or subjective morality, but rather the very morality to which religion recommends, which leads to human perfection, and to which the pure innate nature (fitrah) of human beings calls. The Prophet was sent and commissioned to bring this morality to its peak, as he said: "Indeed, I was sent to perfect noble morals." (Bihar al-Anwar, Vol. 16, p. 210)
2️⃣ One of the ways to acquire moral virtues is the correct practice of jurisprudential rulings (ahkam al-fiqhiyya). In fact, the very purpose of establishing these rulings is nothing other than this. It is not that morality and religious rulings are in opposition to each other; rather, both are for the purpose of reaching human perfection.
3️⃣ However, sometimes using certain jurisprudential rulings as a pretext to achieve non-ethical objectives distances a person from perfection and is incompatible with the morality to which religion recommends.
4️⃣ For example:
- 🏦 When a person gifts his wealth to his child to evade paying khums (one-fifth tax).
- 💔 When a man, despite having the right to divorce, coerces a wife with whom he does not intend to live into forgoing her mahr (dower).
- 💍 When a woman, despite knowing about her suitor's poverty, agrees to marry him and later demands the mahr.
In all such cases, the person has not technically committed a violation of religious law (shar) or jurisprudence (fiqh), but has performed an unethical act that distances him/her from perfection.
5️⃣ Instances of this kind, because they are contrary to morality and distance a person from perfection, cannot have the ruling of permissibility (ibahah); rather, they are at least reprehensible (makruh).
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Five Key Terms Explained
📜 1. Morality (Akhlāq)
The set of noble character traits and virtuous behaviors that religion promotes, aiming for human spiritual perfection. It aligns with our pure, God-given nature.
⚖️ 2. Religious Rulings (Aḥkām al-Fiqhiyya)
Practical laws and guidelines derived from Islamic sources (Qur'an and Sunnah) that govern worship, transactions, and daily life.
💝 3. Fitrah
The original, pure human nature—the inner moral compass that naturally recognizes good and evil, and inclines toward truth and virtue.
📉 4. Makruh
An action that is disliked or discouraged in Islamic law. Performing it is not sinful, but avoiding it is rewarded.
✅ 5. Ibāḥah
A ruling indicating that an action is religiously permissible—neither rewarded nor punished. It falls between the obligatory and the forbidden.