What is the compensation for injuring a speaking person, resulting in the loss of speech and taste?
Chapter on Diyat (Blood Money) for Wounds
Al-Mughni
Book of Blood-Money (Diyyāt)
Primary text
If injury causes both the loss of speech and the loss of taste in a speaking person, two separate *diyahs* are due.
Supporting text
If the tongue is severed, causing both speech and taste to be lost simultaneously, only one *diyah* is due because the loss of these faculties follows the loss of the physical organ, similar to when a person is killed, only one *diyah* is incumbent.