Treatment and Medication
1,367 questions
What is the evidence for the permissibility of discontinuing a treatment that is expected to prolong life? And is that considered casting oneself into destruction or neglecting those under one's care?
Is it permissible to address the shortage of medicine quantities in the health unit's pharmacy by paying the value of examination and dispensing tickets and falsifying imaginary names on them, given the time constraints, the large number of patients, and sending a nurse to dispense the medicine, under the pretext that the names on the tickets are not reviewed?
How can one get rid of excessive self-blame and intense fear of committing sins, which lead to avoiding social interactions and constant anxiety, especially after a painful personal experience?
What is the ruling on the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), and is it based on a scientific methodology or is it mere superstition?
What is the ruling on medicines that contain a percentage of alcohol?
What is the ruling on a wife's previous work in a shop that sells forbidden things, and the ruling on the salary she used to receive from it, and the ruling on the salary she will currently receive according to German law during her pregnancy?
Is it permissible, in Islamic law, to specialize in genetics?
Is someone who unintentionally caused his mother's death during her treatment considered a disobedient child (ʿāqq), and what should he do to atone for that?
Is it permissible to use cannabis oil containing 0.6% THC to treat knee pain for a diabetic patient, knowing that this percentage does not affect the mind?
Is it forbidden to teach knowledge that one has been enjoined to conceal, and is it forbidden to conceal such knowledge from a questioner who would benefit from it, and is there a consensus on this?
Does seeking worldly knowledge like history, language, chemistry, and medicine, with the aim of improving one's social status, fall under the noble Prophetic saying: "Whoever seeks knowledge to argue with the foolish, or to boast before scholars, or to turn people's faces towards himself, he is in the Fire"?
Is it permissible to obtain medical materials (fillings) from a distant government hospital to treat teeth in the city where the enquirer resides, given that a government hospital is available in his city but does not provide treatment due to an accumulation of medical materials, thereby compelling people to resort to private clinics?
Is it permissible, in Islamic law, to adopt the method of treating toothache by engraving seven Arabic letters on the ground, placing a nail on each letter while reciting verses from the Qur’an, and then hammering the nail into the ground when the pain subsides?
Is it permissible to abort a fetus after its congenital malformation has been confirmed by medical examinations?
What is the ruling on injecting a mentally ill brother with an injection to stop his sexual desire, in order to prevent harm to him and his family?
Is the deceased father's spending on his daughter's education, she being a doctor, considered beneficial knowledge, and is it permissible for her to dedicate the reward of her work to him to alleviate the suffering of female patients and preserve their modesty, and does this apply to the Hadith: "When a person dies, all his deeds come to an end except for three: ...or beneficial knowledge..."?
Are anxiety, distress, inability to remember or express oneself and understand simple matters, in addition to repeated refusal of marriage due to health conditions, considered a tribulation, and what is the advice?
What are a wife's rights regarding her furnishings, her deferred dower (mu'akhkhar), and her consolation gift (mut'ah)? And is it considered theft if she sold her daughters' gold, which she did not own, in addition to selling the wedding set (shabka), which is customarily not considered her property?
Is it to be understood from the Hadith: "For every disease there is a cure" that for every problem there is a solution, and is it permissible to be certain of that, and does the inability to solve a problem contradict reliance on Allah, and what is your advice for entering the field of inventions?
What is the ruling on studying worldly sciences and forsaking study for the sake of gaining deep understanding of the religion?
Is it permissible to take the COVID-19 vaccine that uses cell lines from aborted fetuses in its production?
Is it permissible to consume fermented Chinese ginseng solution after adding warm water to get rid of the alcohol, whether for medicinal purposes or for male enhancement, especially given that analyses have shown weak sperm?
Does internal grumbling and impatience with tribulation lead to God's wrath, or is the reward written for the afflicted regardless of their patience?
What is the ruling on an unintentional error by a pharmacist in dispensing medication that led to the deterioration of a patient's condition?