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What is the ruling on using animals, permissible to eat and lawfully slaughtered, for medical treatment?

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There is no harm in using an animal permissible to eat for medicinal purposes, such as chicken and the like, if it has been slaughtered according to Islamic law. Treatment with permissible things is lawful, and so is anything whose prohibition is not known.

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