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Is it permissible for the judge to ask the plaintiff to specify a punishment for the accused, and does the plaintiff mean by the judge's request for a punishment something done out of coercion, and is it lawful for the judge to ask the plaintiff to specify a sum of money or to refer the case to the court of cassation, and what is the relation of all this to the plaintiff's head surgery?

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The obligation in intentional injury is qisas unless there is a fear of loss of life, in which case the obligation becomes diyya. These matters fall under the jurisdiction of the Sharia courts.

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