وَلَكُمۡ
فِي
ٱلۡقِصَاصِ
حَيَوٰةٞ
يَٰٓأُوْلِي
ٱلۡأَلۡبَٰبِ
لَعَلَّكُمۡ
تَتَّقُونَ
١٧٩
There is ˹security of˺ life for you in ˹the law of˺ retaliation, O people of reason, so that you may become mindful ˹of Allah˺.
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, The Clear Quran
And there is for you in legal retribution [saving of] life, O you [people] of understanding, that you may become righteous.1
— Saheeh International
Lee Tafsir
Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
The Command and the Wisdom behind the Law of Equality
Allah states: O believers! The Law of equality has been ordained on you (for cases of murder), the free for the free, the slave for the slave and the female for the female. Therefore, do not transgress the set limits, as others before you transgre
…The Command and the Wisdom behind the Law of Equality
Allah states: O believers! The Law of equality has been ordained on you (for cases of murder), th
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