Tafheem-ul-Quran (En) - Al-Hajj : 60
ذٰلِكَ١ۚ وَ مَنْ عَاقَبَ بِمِثْلِ مَا عُوْقِبَ بِهٖ ثُمَّ بُغِیَ عَلَیْهِ لَیَنْصُرَنَّهُ اللّٰهُ١ؕ اِنَّ اللّٰهَ لَعَفُوٌّ غَفُوْرٌ
That indeed is so, as for him who retaliates in proportion to the excess committed against him, and is thereafter again subjected to transgression, Allah will surely aid him. 104 Verily Allah is All-Pardoning, All-Forgiving. 105
104. The preceding verses referred to those persecuted people who could not retaliate and here the reference is to those victims of persecution who could fight back. From this verse, Imam Shafai has concluded that retaliation will be effected in the way as life was taken in the original act. If a person is killed by immersion in water, the killer also should be put to death by immersion in water; or if a person is burnt to death, the killer also will be burnt to death. The Hanafites dispute this. According to them, retaliation against a murderer will be incurred in one and the same established way no matter how life was taken by the culprit in the original act. 105. This verse (60) may imply two things: (1) Allah forgives that killing which is done in self-defense, though killing of people is not a good thing in itself. (2) As Allah, Whose slaves the believers are, is Forgiving and Forbearing, they should also forgive and forbear as much as possible. Though they have the right of retaliation, they should not resort to carnage and massacre.
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