[PROVISIONAL TRANSLATION FROM PERSIAN]
[Translator’s notes appear in square brackets.]
[Personal information has been redacted.]
[The excerpt below is from the section of the article that pertains to the Baha’i Faith]
[Adapted from website:] Official Website of Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad Sadeq Rouhani
[Date:] 15 Khordad 1377 [5 June 1998]
The School of Yasouboddin [title of Imam Ali] (PBUH)
Seeking Judicial Istifa’at[1] (in Persian)
Seyyed Mohammad Sadeq Rouhani
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Question: Please indicate, if a murdered person is a follower of the perverse Baha’i sect: 1-Does he have the right to receive any diyah [blood money] or not? If yes, how much is his/her diyah?
Response:
In His Name, Whose Names are great
1-An infidel that is not kafir-i-zammi [infidel living in an Islamic country and paying tribute], and Baha’is are a good example of this group, their killing has neither qisas[2] nor diyah.
The date of response to istifa: 9 Safar 1419 [5 June 1998]
[1] [Istifta’at: religious inquiries]
[2] [Qisas: Retaliation, punishment in the same kind; the punishment of an injury by an act of the same kind, as an eye for an eye, a limb for a limb, etc.]