Mughal Administration c10.s5.29

c10.s5.29

As for *tazir-bil-mal* or ‘chastisement in property’ *i.e.*, fine, only Abu Hanifa pronounces it to be legal, but all other learned men reject it as opposed to the Quranic law. (*Hedaya*, 203.) Aurangzib, who was a strict Hanafi and himself well-read in Canon Law and the literature of precedents (*fatawa*), issued an order to the *diwan* of Gujrat and also of other subahs, in 1679, to the effect that as fine was not permitted by Canon Law, every civil official (amal), zamindar or other person found guilty of an offence, should, according to the nature of his act, be imprisoned or dismissed or banished, but not punished with fine. (Mirat-i-Ahmadi, i. 293.)