Concept of Blood money

[Raj_ind]

Re: Concept of Blood money

@mAd_ScIeNtIsT

The rich aren’t at an advantage, because the poor are not obligated to ask for money. There is a choice that the victim’s next of kin have in shariah upon someone being found guilty of murder - execution, or mercy, with financial compensation.

The victim’s next of kin is not obligated to accept compensation - they can insist on execution. This is what prevents the systems from meaning that the rich get off all the time.

I have few questions regarding this. Plz let me know.

1. Is it true that if the murderer is a muslim and victim is a dhimmi than the muslim cant be awarded death sentence but he is only obligated to pay diya to the victim’s family? ie separate rules for believer and kuffar?

2. I watched Asma Jahangir narrating a story from Lahore Pakistan, that some parents hired a contract killer to kill their own daughter, and after mission accomplished, they accepted blood money from the killer and forgave him. A bizarre misuse of laws that are supposed not to be misused.

Thanks.