What is the legal ruling regarding compensation for rendering a person mute (causing *fars*)?
Chapter on Diyat (Blood Money) for Wounds
Al-Mughni
Book of Blood-Money (Diyyāt)
Primary text
The full *diyah* (blood money) is obligatory if one injures another causing muteness, because whatever injury necessitates *diyah* for its destruction also necessitates *diyah* for the destruction of its benefit, similar to the hand.