Reply to a Religious Query [Inquiry about payment of blood money in cash]

Questioner: Yousuf Sani`i (Prosecutor General)
[3/1/2592 dated 9/2/1364 AHS His Holiness Ayatullah al-`Uzma Imam Khomeini (May his sublime presence endure over the heads of Muslims). After greeting, you are kindly requested to provide written answer to the following question:
Does the criminal have to pay the blood money the amount of dinar «1» set in many cases in injuries or it is not necessary to pay in dinar as in the case of camel about which you pronounced the verdict that it is not essential, «2» with the proportion of the amount of dinar equivalent sum will be collected in blood money?
Yousuf Sani`i- Prosecutor General 6/ 2/ 1364 AHS
In His Most Exalted Name
It is not essential and one can pay the equivalent amount.
Rouhullah al-Mousawi al-Khomeini