Medicine & Health
Health questions usually arrive with a decision attached, and often a deadline. This topic covers treatment and medication, surgery and transplants, fertility and contraception, mental health, and prevention and vaccination. Readers ask what a medicine contains, what a procedure involves, and how worship fits around an illness. Every answer here is a sourced summary of a fatwa published on Ftawy, with the full ruling one tap away. Start with treatment and medication if your question is about a prescription.
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What motivates showing off, and what are the reasons and causes of showing off that scholars have enumerated?
What is the ruling on circulating a joke that includes the permissibility of hitting a woman with a hot frying pan after she has watched cooking channels for a long time and prepared a simple meal?
Is a wife's refusal of sexual intimacy with her husband considered unlawful (haram), especially if the refusal is not permanent and she fears God's wrath and his marrying another woman, while she feels no love for him and her perception of him is affected by previous problems?
If I leave my girlfriend, who loves me with a forbidden love, would I be considered among those who are at odds, whose deeds are not raised (to God)?
Is it permissible for a committed Muslim who suffers from a mood disorder to smoke two or three cigarettes of the lightest types daily, taking care that no one sees him, on the grounds that it benefits him psychologically, and with his full knowledge of the ruling on smoking?
How is it possible to strike a balance between seeking sacred knowledge and specializing in worldly sciences like medicine and engineering, with the desire to reconcile the two?
Is what a Shaykh and Imam of a mosque does—treating people with the Holy Quran, and what he described to me as using Surat Al-Baqarah on olive oil, Surat Yasin on water, along with "tahlil," "istighfar," prayers upon the Prophet, and honey—considered permissible, or is there anything forbidden in it?
What is the ruling on seeking a cure for a severe illness by committing an abomination, while detesting the one who commits it?
Is it permissible for a woman to go with her son to the Haram or to the hospital without the knowledge of her oppressive and controlling husband, if the husband is traveling?
Is it forbidden for a doctor infected with inactive Hepatitis B virus, who plans to specialize in vascular surgery, to practice this specialty due to the possibility of unintentionally transmitting the infection to patients, and what are the consequences if that occurs?
Is it obligatory to inform one's fiancée about sexual problems such as premature ejaculation, and is marriage in this case considered a sin?
Is it permissible to take medicine capsules that contain pig gelatin, when alternatives would cause health problems and financial hardship?
Are there any Hadith narrations concerning the Senna plant (Senamaki)? And what are its benefits?
Is the white cat that appears on the doorstep and is associated with the father's distress harmful, and how can it be driven away, and how can one ascertain whether the father is ill or not, and what should be done in this case?
Is the questioner afflicted by jinn possession, and what is your advice to her, given her suffering from obsessive fears and disturbing dreams, and her feeling of trembling upon hearing ruqyah and supplication?
What is the advice for dealing with bad luck in livelihood, fatigue, and obsessive-compulsive disorder in worship and daily transactions?
What should I do if I am treated with water in which there is a paper with writing on it, given my suspicion about the raqi due to some conditions not being met in him, such as his not lowering his gaze and his touching my hand when taking money? Is specifying the use of the water after Maghrib considered sorcery? Does the raqi's not meeting all conditions mean that his ruqyah is not legitimate?
What is the ruling on cosmetic treatment for a facial disfigurement by a doctor suspected of being Israeli? And what is the ruling on refusing the father's request and making him angry in this regard? And is the questioner sinful for not searching for another doctor?
Is it obligatory to inform a suitor about the problem of dense hair in some body areas before marriage, and how should this information be conveyed to him?
What is the treatment for depression and obsessive-compulsive thoughts that afflicted a young married woman after childbirth?
What is the ruling on touching a non-mahram woman for the purpose of treatment?
Is Abu Hurayrah reliable in transmitting hadiths despite 'A'ishah and 'Umar's reprimand of him, his narration of hadiths he misunderstood, and his living a life of luxury at the end of his life? And how were his narrations able to pass the imams' strict criteria to be included in the authentic books of hadith?
What are the fixed rules for prohibiting things and matters in Islam, taking into consideration His — the Almighty’s — saying: "And do not say about what your tongues falsely describe, 'This is lawful and this is unlawful,'..." and the Prophetic Hadith: "The lawful is what Allah has made lawful in His Book, and the unlawful is what Allah has made unlawful in His Book, and what He has remained silent about is among that which He has pardoned," and the saying of the scholars: "The unlawful is that for which there is a severe threat [of punishment]"?
What is the ruling regarding the two divorces uttered by the husband to end the quarrel and beating, knowing that he took his wife back after them?