{"id":6072,"date":"2024-07-10T07:42:18","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/penalty-for-traffic-causalities\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T07:42:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:42:18","slug":"penalty-for-traffic-causalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/penalty-for-traffic-causalities\/","title":{"rendered":"Penalty For Traffic Causalities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Question<\/h3>\n

What is the penalty prescribed by the Sharia\u2019h for accidently hitting and killing a person in road accidents?<\/p>\n

Answer<\/h3>\n

What follows is the related part of Mr Ghamidi’s Mizan. In these passages he has described the Shari’ah law regarding unintentionally killing a person. Traffic accidents and resultant are a form of such killings. <\/p>\n

“The Qur’anic penalty law regarding unintentional killing can be summarized as follows:<\/p>\n

If the murdered person is a Muslim citizen of a Muslim State or if he is not a Muslim but belongs to a nation with which a treaty has been concluded, it is necessary for the murderer who has not been forgiven to pay diyat <\/em>to atone for his sin and repent before the Almighty and free a Muslim slave as well.<\/p>\n

If the murdered person is a Muslim and belongs to an enemy country, the murderer is not required to pay diyat<\/em>; in this case, it is enough that he only free a Muslim slave.<\/p>\n

Thirdly, in both these cases, if the criminal does not have a slave, he should consecutively fast for two months.<\/p>\n

Since there is option to free a slave today, Muslim or non-Muslim, we need to follow the state laws the fines and then pray to the Almighty for forgiveness and fast fro two months consecutively.” (Mizan, The Penal Law) <\/p>\n

Answered by:<\/strong> Tariq Mahmood Hashmi<\/p>\n

Date:<\/strong> 2015-01-13<\/p>\n