The ruling on killing locusts by a person in ihram without intention
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah preserve you. Locusts descend upon us while we are in ihram. If we kill them without intention, do we owe a fidyah (ransom payment)?
Answer:
Yes, locusts are among game, and it is forbidden for a person in ihram to kill them. However, if he kills them without intention, he owes nothing. The meaning of the saying of Allah the Exalted[Al-Ma'idah 5:95] is that the one who did not intend it owes nothing. Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, says [Al-Baqarah 2:235] But a group of jurists hold that it is obligatory [to pay compensation] because it is destruction, and destruction is the same whether intentional or accidental. However, the correct view is that the accidental killer owes nothing, based on the saying of Allah the Exalted [Al-Ma'idah 5:95] So the meaning of the verse is that the one who did not intend it owes nothing. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah preserve you. Locusts descend upon us while we are in ihram. If we kill them without intention, do we owe a fidyah (ransom payment)?
Answer:
Yes, locusts are among game, and it is forbidden for a person in ihram to kill them. However, if he kills them without intention, he owes nothing. The meaning of the saying of Allah the Exalted
And whoever of you kills it intentionally
وَمَن قَتَلَهُ مِنكُم مُّتَعَمِّدًاThere is no blame upon you for that to which you [indirectly] allude
وَلَا جُنَاحَ عَلَيْكُمْ فِيمَا عَرَّضْتُم بِهِAnd whoever of you kills it intentionally
وَمَن قَتَلَهُ مِنكُم مُّتَعَمِّدًا
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 141/57 شرح زاد المستقنع/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (1:05:09)
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