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.
The law of Qisas favors the wealthy who have the money to pay compensation to their victims (blood money)
Well, the lesson for today is not to attack someone with acid while living in Saudi Arabia or Iran.
In this case, the courts ruled that a man who threw acid on another man must lose his eye and ear based on the law of Qisas in the Koran.
An Iranian court has ruled that a man must lose his eye and part of an ear after he blinded and burnt an ear of another man in an acid attack
Judge Aziz Mohammadi gave the order against the man, who was only identified as Hamid, after convicting him of throwing acid on the victim, named as Davoud, hardline Kayhan newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The judge also ordered Hamid to pay blood-money for the burn injuries suffered by Davoud, who was 22 at the time of the attack, in a ruling issued under the Islamic Republic's eye-for-an-eye justice code.
Hamid told the court he had mistaken Davoud for a classmate who had bullied him in high school, saying that even after moving, he remained tormented by the memory of the bullying.
The report, quoting other sources, including Iran's Fars news agency, did not say whether the authorities would, in fact, carry out the punishment by using acid or via surgery.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middl ... 10169.html
I posted on a similar story from Saudi Arabia about a man who faced paralysis after he paralyzed someone else and the victim wanted his attacker to be crippled as he was.
However, it looks like the Saudi authorities in that case decided that following the Koran was not the best choice and apparently convinced the paralyzed man to accept blood money from his attacker.
It's just a shame when Islamic states do not follow the basic tenets of their holy book.