Retaliation in the eye when it results in the loss of the other eye

The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. If a person blinds a person’s eye, is the other eye also blinded, even if that results in the loss of the other eye?

The Shaykh:
No, the loss of the other eye does not result from it. Who said that? The loss of the other eye does not result from it. This is referred to the doctors. If they state that the other eye will be lost and they decide this, then retaliation is not permissible. But I do not think the loss of the other eye results from it, because every eye is independent.

The questioner:
And the nights of Shaykh Waleed. Shaykh Waleed, Shaykh Waleed.

The Shaykh:
But if the perpetrator is one-eyed and has only one eye, while the victim has two eyes, and the perpetrator attacks him, does the one with two eyes have the right to retaliate against the one-eyed person? Because if the one-eyed person loses his eye, he becomes blind, whereas the victim does not become blind; he becomes one-eyed. This will be addressed, if Allah wills. Yes.