What is the advice regarding the increase in the amount of blood money?
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This question has been repeated, and one of them says: What is the ruling of the Shari'ah regarding what is currently happening when retaliation is waived, specifically concerning the exaggeration in demanding money, where huge sums of millions are requested, and camps are opened to receive support from members of the tribe?
Answer:
The default is that it is permissible to ask for a sum, but exaggeration and insistence are not permissible. If this turns into buying and selling, and retaliation is bought and sold and blood is shed, this leads to harms, and a limit must be placed on this. I think the one in authority has now placed a limit on this manipulation and these negotiations. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This question has been repeated, and one of them says: What is the ruling of the Shari'ah regarding what is currently happening when retaliation is waived, specifically concerning the exaggeration in demanding money, where huge sums of millions are requested, and camps are opened to receive support from members of the tribe?
Answer:
The default is that it is permissible to ask for a sum, but exaggeration and insistence are not permissible. If this turns into buying and selling, and retaliation is bought and sold and blood is shed, this leads to harms, and a limit must be placed on this. I think the one in authority has now placed a limit on this manipulation and these negotiations. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [2157 -2802] ما النصيحة فيما يحصل من الزيادة في مقدار الدية؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.