هَمّ

هَمّ

Hamm in the legal sense is the resolve of the heart to do something, good or bad, before doing it; it is stronger than a passing thought. ^{1 2} Most scholars hold that one who resolves on a good deed and does not do it has a full good deed recorded, and one who resolves on an evil deed and leaves it has a good deed recorded if he left it for God's sake; the jurists differ on the reward of one who left it for another reason. ^{3 4 5} Al-Baqillani and others hold that the resolve that is not recorded is the passing thought without settled purpose, while a firm resolve is held against the person; they differ on whether a firm resolve to commit an act of the limbs is punished, some holding that it is punished by reproach rather than by torment. ^{5 6 7 8} Some jurists hold one who resolves on sin within the Sacred Precinct is held to account, while others hold the pardon for resolve general in and outside the Precinct. ^{8 2} Resolving on unbelief, or firmly intending it for the future, is held by al-Nawawi and others to be unbelief at once, but a passing whisper does not count. ²