Rafiq-ul-Haramayn - Islamic School System - Dawat-e-Islami

Offences and their Expiations 183
etc. can only be eaten by the deserving people. The expiation-paying
person and the Ghanī people cannot eat it. (Mulakhkhaṣ az: Baĥār-e-
Sharī’at, vol. 1, pp. 1162-1163)
Whether it is the sacrifice of Dam or gratitude, there is no harm in
taking the meat out of Ḥaram after the slaughter but it is essential
that the animal be slaughtered within the limits of Ḥaram.
Fear Allah
I have observed that people deliberately commit the ‘offence’ but do
not pay the expiation. This act of theirs leads them to committing
two sins: (i) committing the offence deliberately and (ii) not paying
the expiation.
Therefore, they must pay the expiation, and repentance will also be
Wājib for them. However, if an offence occurs unknowingly or
under coercion or by mistake, just expiation is enough in this case,
repentance is not Wājib. Further, it must also be remembered that
whether the offence occurs deliberately or by mistake, knowingly or
unknowingly, willingly or under coercion, whilst one is asleep or
awake, unconscious or conscious and whether one commits the
offence himself or causes someone else to do it, expiation must be
paid. If the expiation is not paid, it will be a sin.
When it comes to paying for the offence, some people even say:
‘Allah will forgive us’, and then they do not pay Dam etc. Such
people should remember the fact that paying Dam etc. has been
declared Wājib by Sharī’aĥ, and evading Dam etc. deliberately is
non-compliance with Sharī’aĥ, which is itself a severe sin. Some
wealth-loving unwise Ḥujjāj even ask such a question as: It is just a
sin, Dam is not Wājib ( ). Alas! All they are concerned about is
to save a few coins only ignoring the fact that they have deserved a