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If an ostrich egg falls from a tree in the Haram onto a person's eye and he pushes it away and it breaks, what is the ruling?

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The questioner : If an ostrich egg falls from a tree in the Haram onto a person and he pushes it away.

The Shaykh : onto a person's eye,

The questioner : onto a person's eye and he pushes it away and it breaks, he is not liable for compensation, unlike if he needed to eat it because it had spoiled.

The Shaykh : This is, for example, if one is sleeping under the tree. And there is a nest. A bird or something else, and an egg falls on his eye. He is always, you know, when something falls on a person's eye, it may happen automatically that he moves his hand to remove it, so he does this with it and it falls to the ground and breaks, then he is not liable for it, clear why? Because he pushed it away to remove its harm. And the same is if someone comes and ties something on him. And he added to it, and the day he added to it, it broke, his hand broke, is the one who tied it on him liable or not? May Allah keep you safe. He owes nothing because he is removing its harm.
Source قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، 274 - لو وقعت بيضة نعامة من شجرة في الحرم على عين إنسان فدفعها وانكسرت فما الحكم؟ ابن عثيمين — youtube.com

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