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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Islamic Bioethics: A General Scheme Part 3: Jurisprudential and ethical reflections on some issues in bioethics Treatment of the sick Islam emphasises the importance of maintaining one’s health and preventing illness, but when prevention fails, all efforts must be made to restore the health. One way of saving lives of people is to treat them when they become sick. It is a mutual responsibility of the patient and physician (or society in general).

In the other words, seeking the treatment is a duty for the patient himself and everybody in the society is obliged to help the patient in treatment. On the necessity of treatment, the Prophet said: O servants of Allah, seek treatment, for Allah has not sent down any illness without sending down its treatment (14). This is a sample of a set of narrations that makes treatment mandatory under the situation of availability of a treatment or considering the adverse effects of holding off a treatment.

On the other hand, healing people is considered as a sacred job. The physician must do his best to heal the illness, but at the same time he must know that the real healer is God. In the Qur’an, the Prophet Abraham is quoted as saying: “And when I am sick, He restores me to health” [^1] Indeed, one of the names of God is “the Healer” (Al-Shafí). The physician must also treat the patient with respect and compassion.

The Oath of the Muslim Doctor includes undertaking "to protect human life in all stages and under all circumstances, doing [one's] utmost to rescue it from death, malady, pain and anxiety. To be, an instrument of God's mercy all the way, extending medical care to near and far, virtuous and sinner and friend and enemy” (13) is necessary. Reproduction Due to the high value of human life, Islam attaches a very special attention to it before it starts and this continues after ending life with death.

Marriage is the only proper and legitimate way for having a child. In the other words, a male and female may have a child only when they appreciate the value of human life and therefore are committed to take the full responsibility of bringing up a child in the sacred institution of family. Marriage is not just a financial or physical arrangement for having sexual relation or living together; neither it is just a legal contract between a man and woman.

Marriage is a sacred covenant between the two and God is the witness of it.