Treatment and Medication
1,367 questions
What is the ruling on not supplicating for healing while taking medicine, seeking reward and the ranks of the patient?
Is there a treatment or sanitizer that would be sufficient, in place of frequent handwashing, for someone afflicted with obsessive-compulsive disorder related to cleanliness and cracking of the hands, so that they can be assured their hands are clean and free of germs?
Is it permissible for a woman to remove excess eyebrow hair that causes her embarrassment and affects her appearance, knowing that bleaching is ineffective?
What is the ruling on a doctor working in the public or private sector in a country where only commercial insurance is available, taking into account the following considerations: whether enrollment in commercial insurance is compulsory or voluntary, the doctor contracting with the commercial insurance system to avoid loss, signing insurance forms to enable patients to reclaim their expenses, and signing prescriptions for medications and analyses for patients they have not examined, or adding medications that the patient has previously purchased, or that the patient needs, or for poor patients who are not enrolled in insurance? Is it permissible to rely on asking the patient about their right before signing insurance forms? And is it advisable to seek another profession besides medicine?
Is it permissible to give zakat to a brother who has a limited income and a bank deposit that is insufficient for his livelihood, and he has a son and a daughter in a private school, and his wife needs medical treatment costs, while his other brothers are well-off?
Is it forbidden for a doctor to take free medicine from the hospital pharmacy for his well-off relatives, other than his allowed family members? And what must he do to atone for that?
Is taking a seat in the Faculty of Medicine—benefiting from the law allocating 20% for military personnel's children—considered an injustice to others, especially since my GPA qualifies me for admission to another distant university, and what should I do after commencing my studies?
What is the ruling on undergoing a cosmetic nose surgery if its owner suffers psychologically and loses self-confidence due to its large size and others' continuous remarks about it, especially since it is unusually noticeable among people of his gender?
What is the reason for the delay in answering the questions that were sent approximately a month ago, despite the promise of a response within a week, and have these questions been neglected?
What is the ruling on using commercial vinegar labeled "alcohol vinegar" and homemade grape vinegar that spoils before turning into vinegar, and is expiation due from one who used it unknowingly of its prohibition?
What is the ruling on selling stomach medications that are currently used for abortion, and is it permissible for a pharmacist to sell them to patients while knowing they are being used for abortion, even though some doctors prescribe them?
Is it permissible for a female student to dispose of the amount designated for dental treatment, which she receives from the company, before completing the treatment, due to her conviction that the doctor is incompetent, and that if she did not do so, the company would take the excess amounts, especially since the company donates the excess amounts to Israel?
Is the human form predestined, and is it permissible to supplicate to Allah to change a person's form, such as to remove swelling from the head?
Is a husband sinful for preventing his wife from becoming pregnant, for fear of her being examined by a male doctor due to the scarcity of female doctors?
What is the ruling on a human doctor working in a pharmacy?
What is the criterion for dryness of the hand, and when is a hand judged to be dry such that impurity is not transferred by its touching another dry thing, given that the hand has natural moisture or dampness or slight perspiration? And what is the ruling on using soap that contains pork fats or fats from animals not slaughtered according to Islamic law, and is its impurity dependent on a chemical transformation of the substance?
Is bariatric surgery that involves the removal of part of the stomach, and is intended to eliminate morbid obesity that has caused health and psychological disorders for a girl, after failed attempts to lose weight by traditional methods, considered casting oneself into perdition or altering Allah's creation, given the risks of the operation?
How do we respond to those who deny the Sunnah and criticize the jurists for not obligating the husband to bear the expenses of his wife's medical treatment?
What should I do about the obsessive doubt concerning the existence of God, knowing that it is an obsession, and what is the beneficial remedy to get rid of what I am experiencing?
Is continuing to watch a movie that contains a "t" shaped like a cross, and not deleting it from the device, considered apostasy from Islam merely by being pleased with the symbol of the Christians, or is it merely a sin that does not amount to apostasy? And is a mental (heartfelt) statement, "no matter how sinful it may be," considered apostasy?
Is it permissible in Sharia to use stem cells from a donor to treat the ovaries?
Is it permissible to sign papers to discontinue "Prostin" medication for an infant who is kept alive by it, due to the high cost of intensive care and the inability to provide treatment in specialized hospitals that require a royal decree?
Is it permissible for a mother to substitute two medications in a prescription with one medication not prescribed by the doctor, in order to be compensated for the money, knowing that she has the right to be compensated for this medication? And what is the ruling on collecting medicine labels to obtain a prescription for monetary compensation for someone who did not use them?
Is it permissible for a mother to hit her twenty-year-old daughter for refusing to comply with treatment, "for the sake of her well-being (maslahah)"?