Is it permissible to approve a law that allows a patient to choose not to be resuscitated, and what are the consequences of that in terms of not providing medical aid? And does a nurse who participates in that bear sin or require expiation?
If it is highly probable that the patient will perish if medicine is withheld, then he must be compelled to take it.
As for the ruling on one who grants permission for his killing: 1. Shafi'is and Hanbalis: There is no qisas (retribution) or diyah (blood money), but (expiation) is due as a right of Allah. 2. Hanafis: Only diyah is due. 3. Malikis and some Hanbalis: Qisas is due upon him.
The preponderant view is that qisas is obligatory, because a person does not own his life, and his permission for killing is not legally valid. In the event that hudud (punishments) are not imposed, diyah is due from the doctor and nurse if they were the cause of death. Kaffarah is due for killing a non-Muslim, according to the majority of jurists.
It is not permissible to agree to work under such a law, and one must abandon this work.
Summary from Ftawy's records · added here
Reviewed by El Fatwa's sharia committee.
Read the full answer on Ftawyhttps://ftawy.com/en/questions/110085
Where this answer came from
- Source platform
- Ftawy
- Original fatwa ID
- 110085
- Added here
- . This is when the answer was added to El Fatwa, not the fatwa's date.
- Text
- Summary from Ftawy's records, reviewed by El Fatwa's sharia committee.
- Read the full ruling
- Read the full answer on Ftawy