Treatment and Medication
1,367 questions
Is it permissible to help one's mother bathe while she is exposing her nakedness, even though she is in good health and capable of handling her own affairs?
What is the ruling on a nose cosmetic surgery if it is prominent and causes psychological harm and negative comments from others, and is this considered a disfigurement that permits the procedure, given the fear of the curse mentioned in the hadiths?
What is the ruling on a wife going alone to a male psychiatrist and the door being closed between them, with a secretary outside? Is it permissible to disclose marital secrets to him? And what is the ruling on hypnosis sessions?
Is it permissible for a girl who is subjected to severe injustice, beatings, humiliation, and accusations concerning her honor from her parents, to reduce her interaction and conversation with them, without mistreating them, if their closeness harms her health?
Is it permissible to drink alcohol for medicinal purposes if a knowledgeable herbalist advises it, and does the Almighty’s saying apply to it: "But whoever is forced by necessity, neither craving it nor transgressing, there is no sin upon him"?
What is the ruling of the Sharia on consuming medicines, vitamins, and foods that contain gelatin extracted from animals not slaughtered according to Islamic law?
Is it permissible to give to a needy relative whose apartment was damaged by fire and who does not have sufficient funds to renovate it, from zakat funds?
Is it permissible to say: "Had He not loved you, He would not have created you"?
Is it permissible to perform a sex-change operation for someone who was raised as a female for 25 years but was medically determined to be male, and is it permissible for him to remain in his state as a male living a female life without an operation, and what is the ruling on this suffering?
Is it permissible for a father to give the surplus rental income from his building to my unmarried siblings without the consent of the married siblings?
What is the ruling on a Muslim girl – a recent convert to Islam – remaining in the home of her non-Muslim parents, given that they compel her to attend Christian rituals and threaten her with expulsion and cutting off her means of livelihood and medical treatment, and what is her path to salvation in this situation?
What is the ruling on going to a male psychiatrist without the knowledge or consent of one's parents, and the ruling on using the father's money to go to him without his knowledge or consent?
Is it permissible to disburse Zakat for an indigent medical case that requires large sums of money to complete its treatment?
Is giving the polio vaccine to two children over the age of five, without the husband's knowledge and consent, considered a sin requiring expiation?
What is the ruling on someone who broke their fast because they forgot to take essential medication for chronic epilepsy during the fasting period in the daytime in Ramadan, especially since the fasting duration was 19 hours?
What is the ruling on supplicating against someone who is not an oppressor, but rather oppressed, on the claim that a doctor gave him medicine and it did not work for him?
What is the ruling of Islam on visiting St. George's Church and taking oil from it for the purpose of facilitating pregnancy, based on the experiences of others?
Does the sum of money that the father gave to his son 15 years before his death enter into the inheritance, and what about its profits? Does the noble verse: "To the male, the like of the share of two females" mean that the brother will not support his sisters after the division of the inheritance? And is the brother entitled to evict one of the tenants from the apartments left by the father in order to live in it, especially after the sister refused his living in the main apartment due to the frequent visits of his wife's relatives?
What is the ruling on opening private dental clinics, working in them, and earning money from them, prior to government appointment and before completing the systemically stipulated training period?
Is raising one's voice at a sick father considered a form of disobedience (ʿuqūq) if the aim is to persuade him to visit a doctor out of fear of his health deteriorating?
Is it Sharia-compliant to use hashish or nicotine to prevent coronavirus, based on the rule "necessities permit the prohibited," knowing that they may cause addiction and the harm has not yet occurred?
Is it permissible to use a topical gel sold in France containing collagen of unknown origin (animal or plant) on the skin?
Is it permissible to shave the head completely ("to zero") to relieve oneself and remove worry and sorrow, in a case where one is not accustomed to it, and despite feeling psychological comfort, even though one's appearance before people will be different?
Is a sick person who suffers from difficulty concentrating and remembering, and takes medication that causes him to be inattentive and slow to comprehend, held accountable for committing a sin or an act of disbelief during moments of extreme distraction, despite his knowledge that error and forgetfulness are lifted from the Ummah, and his awareness of a fatwa that states: "What cannot be imagined with ignorance and forgetfulness – such as insulting the religion, for example – is not an excuse for its perpetrator"?