This review pertains to the greatness of an Iranian Lady who pardoned her wrong doer.She liost her eyes and her beauty at the hands of an angered one-side lover.BBC telecast this news which was also on Indian Television News Channels this week.
Qisas - Iranian blinded by acid pardons her attacker Iranian sentenced to blinding for acid attack pardoned Ameneh Bahrami said she had reprieved the man "for my country"
This was the News on BBC TV on August 1, 2011.
Before going with the story behind the news let me write about QISAS.
Qisas(Arabic: ?) is an Islamic term meaning "retaliation, " and follows the principle of an eye for an eye, or *lex talionis, first set forth by Hammurabi, and subsequently included in the Old Testament and later legal codes. In the case of murder, it means the right of the heirs of a murder victim to demand execution of the murderer.
O you who believe, equivalence is the law decreed for you when dealing with murder - the free for the free, the slave for the slave, the female for the female. If one is pardoned by the victim’s kin, an appreciative response is in order, and an equitable compensation shall be paid. This is an alleviation from your Lord and mercy. Anyone who transgresses beyond this incurs a painful retribution[1][2].
The Quran also allows aggrieved parties to forfeit the right of qisas as an act of charity or an act of atonement for sins.[3]
Qisas is enforced today in countries which follow Sharia, including Saudi Arabia, Iran[4] and Pakistan[5].
The issue of qisas gained attention in the Western media in 2009 when Ameneh Bahrami, an Iranian woman blinded in an acid attack, demanded that her attacker be blinded as well[6]. In 2011 Bahrami made a last minute retraction of this demand, requesting on the day on which the punishment was due to be carried out that her attacker, Majid Movahedi, be pardoned[7].
Links:https://usc.edu/dept/MSA/reference/glossary/term.QISAS.html https://brudirect.com/criminal/part2.htm
An Iranian woman Ameneh Bahrami lost her sight and suffered horrific burns to her face, scalp and body in the attack, carried out by a man Majid Movahedi who was angered that she refused his marriage proposal.
Under Qisas the victim is given the option to opt for the punishment Ameneh Bahrami refused compensation and asked for the punishment “eye for an eye”
She wanted that acid drops be put in both the eyes of Majid Movahedi so thet he could feel the pain that he gave to her.
The court ordered retribution. Majid Movahedi was brought to hospital where the doctor was to put acid in his eyes as per the wishes of the victim and the order of the court.
The accused was sitting on his knees in front of the doctor who was holding the dropper containing acid . Before dropping acid in the eyes of Majid Movahedi the doctor enquired of Ameneh Behrami as what she would want to be done. Majid was weeping expecting mercy from Ameneh. Ameneh had the legal right, under Qisas, to pardon the culprit.
"I forgave him, I forgave him, " she responded, asking the doctor to spare him at the last minute in a dramatic scene broadcast on Iran’s state television.
Ameneh Behrami, whose face remains visibly burned, was a glimpse of her former self, wearing a touch of pink gloss on her lips and a loosely wrapped headscarf to the hospital where the sentence was to be carried out. She was helped into the building by two women who held both her hands.
*"It is best to pardon when you are in a position of power, " Bahrami said, explaining that she did not want revenge.Her mother praised her daughter for this pardon.
*The sobbing man, Majid Movahedi, said Bahrami was "very generous."I couldn’t imagine being blinded by acid, " Movahedi said, as he wept against a wall.
Amnesty International, fighting for Human Rights. is against this barbaric law.
. Qisas is being followed in Countruies that follow Sharia like Iran, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan
THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF “TO ERR IS HUMAN BUT TO FORGIVE IS DIVINE”