Why this word is great
QISAS — [Noun] Under sharia law, the principle of retaliation in kind, or retributive justice. From Arabic قِصَاص (qiṣāṣ, "accountability, pursuing or prosecuting"). Unlike "hudud" (which concerns divine offenses with immutable penalties) or "diya" (which offers monetary recompense), qisas insists on equivalence—a life for a life, an eye for an eye. It is the cold symmetry of a blade meeting flesh, the unflinching gaze of a victim’s kin demanding redress, the scales of justice weighted not with gold but with blood. Here, law is not abstraction but mirror: what was done will be done, and the wound answers the wound.