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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Simplified Islamic Laws for Young Adults Various Issues Issue 478: If a person slaps someone on the face or hits him with something else, then if the skin turns red, one must give 1.5 Mithqal of gold; if it turns blackish-blue, then he must give 3 Mithqal of gold, and if it turns black, then one must give 6 Mithqal of gold.

Each Mithqal is equal to 18 “chick peas”.[^1] Issue 479: If any other place of the body – other than the face, is hit, and it turns red or blackish-blue, then one must give half of the amounts that were listed in the previous rule. Issue 480: Killing those animals that are dangerous to people, and are not the property of anyone, like the snake and scorpion is permissable.

Issue 481: If a person gives something to a repairman to repair, and that person does not come back to collect it, then as long as the repairman has tried to find its owner, and can not find him, according to Ihtiyat Wajib, with the permission of the Hakim Shar’, with the intention of its owner, it must give as Sadaqa to a poor person who is not a Sayyid.

Issue 482: Either person without the permission of the other can not build a wall that is the property of two people, like the wall shared between two houses. Likewise, one is not allowed to place anything, like iron arrows on top of the wall, or even cut into the wall (without the permission of the other person). As for certain actions which one knows that the other person would permit, such as leaning against the wall, or hanging the clothes to dry on the wall is not a problem.

However, if a person tells his neighbor that he is not pleased with (those) actions, then it is not permissable to perform them. Issue 483: If the roots of a tree of someone enter into another person’s property (Land, Garden, House, etc.), then the owner of that property has the right to ask his neighbor to remove the roots, or to cut them.

In the event that the owner of the tree does not do this, the person (neighbor) can himself prevent the tree from growing onto his area, and if any harm comes to the neighbor from the roots of the tree, he is allowed to take the tree from its owner. Issue 484: If the brances of a fruit tree grow over a wall of the garden, and if one does not know whether or not the owner of the tree is content or not that if the fruit from the tree be picked, then one is not allowed to take that fruit.

Even if the fruit from the tree falls to the ground, one can not take the fruit.