Buying and Selling: Ruling on Commuting Qisās to Blood Money for Minor Heirs

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Buying and Selling: Ruling on Commuting Qisās to Blood Money for Minor Heirs

English:

Question #1487:

The heirs of a killed person or some of them are minor children and the guardianship over them in claiming their rights is with the authorized religious authority. Then, if it is proved for the authorised religious authority that the perpetrator is insolvent, has he the right to change the retaliatory punishment for blood money?

Answer #1487:

Should the authorised religious authority see that children’s interest and welfare is in changing, he is allowed to do so.

-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Buying and Selling