What is the solution to the issue of the usurper, given the impossibility of reconciliation or resorting to the courts, and with the desire not to take anything unjustly, taking into consideration the previously mentioned circumstances?
Some scholars have opined that it is permissible to take one's right from an oppressor, provided that one can apprehend it without harm or scandal, and with careful precision, without exceeding bounds, and after the right has been established. If these conditions are met, then it is permissible to take the "qabis" (a small, readily available item) and own it as compensation for the aforementioned rights.
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