Saz - blood money

The word saz  سز is used for blood money or compensation in lieu of killing. Under the custom of saz a person who feels penitent after committing a deliberate murder, approaches the deceased’s family through a Jirga and offers to make payment of blood money to end the enmity between them. All hostilities come to an end between the parties after acceptance of saz. Sometimes the payment of compensation takes the form of giving a girl in marriage to the aggrieved party. It is also called swarah, which binds together the two parties in blood relations and thus helps in eradicating ill will and feeling of  enmity.