عور (کانا پن)

العَوَر

'Awar is the loss of sight in one eye; the jurists use the word in its plain sense ¹. It is distinguished from 'asha, night blindness, from 'amash, weak sight with a watering eye, from hawal, squint, and from 'ama, blindness of both eyes ². A one-eyed animal is not valid for sacrifice where the eye is gone, though the Hanafis allow it where the eye is only white and still sees ^{2 3}. Defect of one eye gives no option to annul the marriage unless one spouse stipulated soundness ³. A one-eyed slave may be freed in expiation, by the majority ⁴. For injury to a sound-eyed person by a one-eyed man, the rulings differ: the Hanafis and Shafi'is require a full blood-money, the Hanbalis require half, and the Malikis give the victim a choice ^{4 5}. The Hanafis and Shafi'is allow retaliation on the sound eye of a person who blinds a one-eyed man's only sound eye, while the Malikis give the choice between retaliation and blood-money ⁵.