Buying and Selling: Ruling on Guardian’s Authority to Pardon or Commute Qisās for Minor Heirs
Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei
Buying and Selling: Ruling on Guardian’s Authority to Pardon or Commute Qisās for Minor Heirs
English:
Question #1485:
A person was killed. He left behind only a number of minor children. Someone was appointed to be their guardian who is not among the inheritors. Is the guardian allowed to pardon the killer or change the penalty of retaliatory punishment for blood money?
Answer #1485:
If the authorities of the shar‘ī guardian are transferred to the appointed one, he can pardon the killer through changing the retaliatory punishment for blood money provided that children’s interest and welfare are taken into consideration.
-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Buying and Selling