as they mentioned, it is appropriate to decrease it by the minimum amount through which the prohibited equality is attained, and the remainder is due, acting in accordance with the evidence requiring it. And Allah knows best.

Section: Appraisal (taqwim) is only to be conducted after the wound has healed, because the estimated indemnity for a wound only stabilizes after it has healed. If the injury does not cause any decrease after healing—such as if he cut off an extra finger or hand, or plucked a woman's beard, and this did not diminish her but rather increased her beauty—then the perpetrator is not liable for anything; because discretionary compensation is for the purpose of compensating for a decrease, and there is no decrease here. It is thus similar to one who slaps another on the face and it leaves no effect. And if the injury increased her beauty, the perpetrator is a benefactor through his injury, so he is not liable, just as if he had cut off a growth (sil'ah) or a wart, or lanced an abscess. It is possible that he could be liable. Al-Qadi said: Ahmad stated this explicitly, because this is a part of what is guaranteed, so it is not free from liability, just as if he destroyed something with a fixed indemnity and it resulted in increased beauty, or it did not diminish it at all. According to this, it is appraised in the conditions closest to healing; because when its value after healing is excluded from consideration, it is appraised in the conditions closest to it, like the child of a deceived woman (walad al-maghrur): when it was impossible to appraise it in the womb, it was appraised at the time of birth, because that is the condition closest to being in the womb that makes appraisal possible. If there is no decrease in that state, it is appraised while the blood is flowing; because there must be some decrease due to the danger to it. This was mentioned by al-Qadi. The scholars of the school of al-Shafi'i have two views, as we have mentioned. A woman's beard is appraised as if it were a man's beard in a condition where the loss of his beard would constitute a decrease for him. If he destroyed an extra tooth, it is appraised as if he had no extra tooth, and no original one behind it, then it is appraised after the extra one has gone. If, when we estimate the woman to be twenty years old, the loss of her beard decreases her value slightly, and if we estimate her to be forty, it decreases it significantly, we estimate her to be twenty, because that is the condition closest to the state of the injured party, so it resembles the appraisal of a wound that does not decrease after healing, for we appraise it in the condition closest to [the state of] healing.