A deliberation on transfusing contaminated blood in the Islamic Criminal Jurisprudence (Feqh)

Under certain conditions, injuring a person`s physical and spiritual entirety can cause some civil and criminal consequences. Nowadays, some new examples of these such damages which did not exist in the past, have been revealed by the scientific developments. Contaminating blood is one of them that is transferring many of the most dangerous and the most fatal diseases to others now. Considering that some forms of this subject have criminal and criminological aspects, the criminal feature of this subject is to be taken an account in this paper. The main question of this paper is: what are the obligatory and conventional orders, and the limits of a transferor`s criminal liability?
According to the achievements of the research, transfusing contaminated blood into oneself or another without any reasonable motive, and deliberately, is forbidden. Where, in accordance with the criminal responsibility, this transfer is resulted to injury or death of another, its perpetrator is entitled to punishment which has different conditions. But its involuntary transfer is only resulted into compensation (diyah, arsh and cure costs). This paper is written with a descriptive-analytical method and a current jurisprudential one.