ভূমিকা

Saving Lives, Blood Transfusion and Transplant | Hubeali Skip to content Hubeali Menu Topics Quran Tafseer Books Urdu Books English Books Sermons School of Wilayat Search for: Search Button Home Articles Saving Lives, Blood Transfusion and Transplant Details Sidebar Table of contents Background: Conduct of a Patient: What is the limit of complaints: To Inform others about One’s Illness: When and for long one should attend a patient: Misinterpreted verses of Quran against transplant: Quranic Verses in Its favour: Four Types of Treatment: The Use of A Deceased’ s Tooth: Saving Lives, Blood Transfusion and Transplant Download PDF The issues of saving lives through advanced medical procedures, i.e., blood transfusion and organ donation/transplant have been discussed at length during the last thirty years, initially meeting with some scepticism, but gradually finding their acceptability into our society, particularly when the advances in the medical techniques demonstrated how precious lives could be saved by providing several examples from around the globe.

However, their permissibility based on ethical and/or religion grounds, has not only been controversial among Muslims but also found similar resistance in some of the other religions, e.g., Christianity, Jewdaism, Hinduism. From Muslim’s point of view, most of the Sunnis/Shias, who follow unorthodox/rational school of thought (aqal, ijma, qiyas, ijtihad etc.), relied on the fatwa of their Muftis and Maraja.

Whereas, little evidence from the Quran and traditions were sought, besides quoting few Quranic verses in its support or rejection. In this article, an attempt has been made to review the Quranic Verses, in the light of Masomeen -asws ’s traditions, which have, usually, been quoted on this topic along with the traditions of Infallibles -asws .

It is worth mentioning that this is preliminary attempt on this subject and further work is needed to include other references from the Ahadith of Ahlul Bait -asws , which we were unable to incorporate, due to lack of our knowledge and understanding, at the time of writing this document. It is worth mentioning that the content of the article is specific for the followers of the twelve Imami Shia school of thought (orthodox, traditionlist, the adherents’ of Masomeen -asws ) [1] .

Background: It is important to first understand, why we get ill? From where does the illness come from and who is the healer?