And if the person killed is a Muslim woman or girl and...

And if the person killed is a Muslim woman or girl and though her Muslim murderer can be killed, yet if he is a man, half of the diyah should be given to her guardian and if he is an insane person or a minor, only diyah should be given, and her diyah is obligatory on Aqilah. The meaning of 'Aqilah will be explained later.

Moreover, the guardian is permitted to take as diyah from the murderer the quantity upon which the two parties agree and this should be based on the diyah which has been fixed in law. As the quantities fixed by law for diyah are different the option to ix the same lies with the murderer and he can adopt that which is easier for him.

Hence he can give the price of silver which is less than other kinds of diyah and calculated in terms of the old Iranian coin Qiran which used to be of one mithqal its price comes to 525 tumans. This diyah is authentic in terms of the old coin Qiran and not in terms of Rial which is current nowadays. And if a person kills another person by sheer mistake e.g. if he shoots an animal and kills some one by mistake, the guardian of the person so killed is not entitled to kill that person. He can.

however take diyah from the Aqilah (i.e. the relatives of the killer from father's side) and in the event of their not giving the same, he can take it from the killer himself. And if a person kills someone in such a way that it resembles intentional murder e.g.

if he strikes someone with a tool by which one does not usually die, and he does not also intend to kill him, and kills him by chance, the killer should, in these circumstances, pay the diyah himself and the guardian of the person killed is not entitled to kill him (i.e. the killer). 2807.

In case the person killed is a man and a Muslim and free, the diyah which the killer should give consists of one of the following six things: (i) In the case of intentional murder it is 100 camels which have entered the sixth year of their lives and in the case of killing by mistake or the killing which resembles intentional murder the age of the camel is less than this, (ii) 200 cows; (iii) 1000 sheep; (iv) 200 hullahs (robes).

Every robe consists of 2 pieces of cloth and it is better that they should have been made in Yemen. (v) 1000 legal mithqals of gold, a mithqal is equal to 18 peas. (vi) 10,000 dirhams, every dirham consists of 12/6 peas of coined silver.