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layout: post
title: "Paying money instead of executing the Hadd"
publisher: "alsalafiyyah@icloud.com"
source: "Fatawa Al-Lajnah Al-Da'imah of KSA no. 14445"
hijri: "Muharram 10, 1442 AH"
category: ["rulership", hudud]
summary: "It is not permissible to substitute the Hudud (ordained punishments for violating Allah’s Law) that Allah decreed with monetary fines; because the Hadud are Tawqifi (bound by a religious text and not amenable to personal opinion) and it is not permissible to change them."
muftis:
  chairman: 
    - name: Shaykh Abdul-Aziz ibn Baz
      url: /biography/binbaz/
  deputy_chairman:
    - name: Shaykh Abdul-Razzaq Al-Afifi
      url: /biography/afifi/
  members: 
    - name: Shaykh Abdullah ibn Ghudayyan
      url: /biography/ghudayyan/
---

### Question: 

What is the ruling on substituting a prescribed penalty proven by texts of the Qur'an and the Sunnah with a monetary fine? For example, instead of cutting off the hand of a thief, he is fined a sum of money and instead of stoning an adulterer and flogging a fornicator, they are fined a specific sum of money.

### Answer:

It is not permissible to substitute the Hudud (ordained punishments for violating Allah’s Law) that Allah decreed with monetary fines; because the Hadud are Tawqifi (bound by a religious text and not amenable to personal opinion) and it is not permissible to change them.