Discover the meaning of the term Arsh (أرش) in Islamic vocabulary.
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Updated on 11 April 2026 at 1:05 AM
📖 2 min readIt is a name of wealth due for what is below life.
Name of what is due for what is below life.
Between them, in ars: they tempted each other. So-and-so: wounding him. He paid his ars. Al-arsh: corruption; plural_rouch. Bribery. The wound and the like. The wound’s diya. Of wounds: what has no known diya quota. The life’s diya, Ibn al-A’rabi’s word. What is reclaimed of the sold’s price when a defect shows. Among the Malikites: the defect’s value. Among the Hanafis: wealth due for what is below life; and: what is due in the offence whose sanction is wealth without talion; and: equity’s ruling; and: the life’s price; and: the sold’s depreciation’s compensation. Among the Shafi’ites: like the Hanafis’ first word; and: the measured thing whereby repair of the missing is made; and: the price’s portion whose proportion is the defect’s lack of the sold’s value had it been sound, of the full value. Among the Hanbalites: like the Shafi’ites’ last word. Among the Ja’farites: the wounds’ ars is the wounded estimated sound had he been a slave, and wounded likewise; the difference related to value, taken from the diya by its reckoning. Among the Ibadites: the wound’s right and like; and what is given for wounds; its appraisal goes to people of science, of equity; what one scholar judged, his peers judge.
Wealth due for what is below life, the wound’s ars being its diya; its origin corruption, then used of goods’ depreciation, being corruption in them.
It is a name of wealth due for what is below life, meaning the wounds’ diya.