Medical and Health Issues

[Om-AbdulRahman2]

Medical and Health Issues




Means/Methods of Cure

Ruling on Medicines, Intoxicants, and Illegal Drugs (http://www.albaseerah.org/forum/showpost.php?p=14247&postcount=3) - Shaykh Abdullah Al Ghuydaan
Using the Qur'aan as a shifaa' (cure) (http://www.albaseerah.org/forum/showpost.php?p=15081&postcount=9) - Shaykh Salaah Muhammad Aal - Shaykh
Performing Ruqya for a child (http://www.albaseerah.org/forum/showpost.php?p=18736&postcount=14) - Shaykh Muhammad al-Maliki

General Issues

Re-circumcising child (http://www.albaseerah.org/forum/showpost.php?p=14851&postcount=7) - Shaykh Wasiullaah al-Abbas
Supplication of seeing a sick person (http://www.albaseerah.org/forum/showpost.php?p=15079&postcount=8) - Shaykh Salaah Muhammad Aal - Shaykh
Rubbing Alcohol - Impure (http://www.albaseerah.org/forum/showpost.php?p=15479&postcount=10) - Shaykh Wasiullaah al-Abbas
Brain dead (http://www.albaseerah.org/forum/showpost.php?p=16847&postcount=11) - Shaykh Abdullah Al Ghuydaan
Patience during illness (http://www.albaseerah.org/forum/showpost.php?p=18120&postcount=12) - Shaykh Abdullah Al Ghuydaan
Artificial Insemination (http://www.albaseerah.org/forum/showpost.php?p=18825&postcount=15) - Shaykh Saalih as-Suhaymee
Hair implanting (http://www.albaseerah.org/forum/showpost.php?p=14139&postcount=2) - Shaykh Abdullaah al-Ghudyaan
Hair Extension (http://www.albaseerah.org/forum/showpost.php?p=14500&postcount=6) - Shaykh Muhammed As-Subayyal
Vaccinations With Haraam Ingredients (http://www.albaseerah.org/forum/showpost.php?p=19416&postcount=16) - Shaykh Muhammad al-Maliki

Women's Issues

Regarding a woman's bleeding that is not connected to period/menstruation (http://www.albaseerah.org/forum/showpost.php?p=18734&postcount=13) - Shaykh Muhammad al-Maliki
Female Circumcision (http://www.albaseerah.org/forum/showpost.php?p=14345&postcount=4) - Shaykh Muhammad al-Maliki
Unusual Menstrual Cycle (http://www.albaseerah.org/forum/showpost.php?p=14399&postcount=5) - Shaykh Muhammad al-Maliki

[Om-AbdulRahman2]

Question: I was wondering if it was halaal or haraam to take hair from the back of your own hair and implant it in your bald spot, so that hair will start growing there?

Answer: The Shaykh said: If the hair is his hair, from his body, there is nothing wrong with him doing that if it is his hair.�


Answered by: Shaykh Abdullaah al-Ghudyaan

Title of Lecture: Question and Answer Session

Date of the Lecture: Saturday, April 2nd, 2005

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[UmmQasim]

Question: Can anyone tell me what if any, is the difference between using a street drug like marijuana, as compared to drugs prescribed by the doctor which basically cause the same effect?

Answer: It is well known that the Legislation of Islaam is complete and it is what we return to for all affairs of our life, whether it relates to our Deen or our dunya our worldly affairs, or our Hereafter. Everything in the life of a Muslim is dealt with in the Legislation. From the other specifics is that it is the same Legislation which we return to for arbitration; we turn to it for ascertaining whether something is halaal (permissible) or haraam (prohibited) as Allaah سبحانه وتعالى says:



فَلاَ وَرَبِّكَ لاَ يُؤْمِنُونَ حَتَّىَ يُحَكِّمُوكَ فِيمَا شَجَرَ بَيْنَهُمْ ثُمَّ لاَ يَجِدُواْ فِي أَنفُسِهِمْ حَرَجاً مِّمَّا قَضَيْتَ وَيُسَلِّمُواْ تَسْلِيماً

{But no, by your Lord, they can have no Faith, until they make you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) judge in all disputes between them, and find in themselves no resistance against your decisions, and accept (them) with full submission.} [an-Nisaa 4:65]




There is no doubt qamr i.e. any intoxicant, is haraam. Anything which alters the natural mental state is considered qamr and is haraam from the texts of the Qur'aan, the Sunnah and the Ijmaa' (Consensus) of the Ulamaa'.

The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said: "That which intoxicates in a large quantity then a little of it is haraam."[1] and also: "If we were to take medicine to cure our sickness then Allaah will never make the cure for the sickness of His Ummah something which is haraam."[2] This includes over-the-counter drugs as well as illegal drugs as they may both have the same substances. As Muslims there is no difference between the two; if they contain illegal drugs they are all haraam, whether to consume it, transport it, buy it, sell it etc. - in the particular hadeeth the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم cursed ten categories of people.[3] Regardless of where it is sold or what the society determines it to be, we return to the Book and the Sunnah to determine if a thing is halaal or haraam.


Answered by: Shaykh Abdullah Al Ghuydaan

Title of lecture: Question and answer session

Date of lecture: 10 November 2007

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[1] Shaykh al-Albaanee رحمه الله says Saheeh in Saheeh al-Jaami', Hadeeth (#5530).

[2] Reference pending.
The last part of the hadeeth with the following wording found in Ghaayatul-Maraam, Hadeeth (#67) where Shaykh al-Albaanee رحمه الله says Saheeh.

[3] Reported in Sunan ibn Maajah, 2/1122, Hadeeth (#3381). Shaykh al-Albaanee رحمه الله says Saheeh.

[Om-AbdulRahman2]

Question: I have been doing research on circumcised women and I read that it does not decrease sexual stimulation but increases it. Also, some people remove too much when only a small amount is to be removed. I'm American and I speak English so there are not many books on this. I'm 22 years of age and I have a child. My husband said that after one year my desire for sex should have been reduced and that I'm not normal. He say this comes from not being circumcised. So if I get circumcised I will want sex too much. My question is: it is preferred for women to be circumcised at birth? I would also like to know if the removal of the hood of the clitoral area is cleaner (more hygienic) similar to when men are circumcised?

Answer: Well, in summary the question comprises two points. The first point is whether circumcising decreases or increases the desire of sex, (and the second point) is whether it relates to cleanliness like in men?

The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم in the hadith mentions that the circumcision for men is for cleanliness[7], and for women he said to Umm Atiyyah who used to circumcise girls when they were born “do not take too much and do not leave it” [8] as when it is left there will be more desire for sex and if it is cut too much then it kills the desire of sex. And what we say to sister is that what she read in the books is not in conformity with what the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said. Even if it is something that people say that they have found regarding their feeling (experiences) we still have the saying of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم that is authenticated and that is the view that should be taken.

Circumcision for the man is obligatory, and for the woman it is recommended i.e. it is sunnah and not obligatory. The reason is this is that for the man it is for the purpose of cleanliness and for the woman it is only for controlling the sexual desire.

My advice is that if it is allowed in the place where you live, then when you deliver a baby girl have her circumcised then, but do not leave it until she is an adult or she becomes a woman because it will be very difficult for her (to do at that time). But if you are in a place where it is not allowed – like almost everywhere in the world, except for Saudi and Yemen and some other places, then it is better to do it at that time (at birth) if it is allowed. If it is not allowed then leave it because it is not obligatory for the woman. However for the man it is obligatory, so we won’t leave it for them – we have to circumcise it inshaa Allaah تعالى but with those who have experience in that area.

Moderator: Please ensure that the questions being posted have not already been answered as this question was previously answered by Shaykh Saalih al-Luhaydaan حفظه الله.


Answered by: Shaykh Muhammad al-Maliki

Title of Lecture: Ramadaan 1427 = 2006

Date of the Lecture: Saturday, October 14th, 2006

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[1] Reported in Saheeh al-Bukhaari Kitaab al-Libaas (#5550) and Saheeh Muslim Kitaab at-Tahaarah (#257)

الفطرة خمس، أو خمس من الفطرة: الختان، والاستحداد، ونتف الإبط، وتقليم الأظفار، وقص الشارب

[2] Shaykh al-Albaani رحمه الله says Saheeh in Saheeh al-Jaami (#7475) with the following wording from Umm Atiyyah

لا تنهكي فإن ذلك أحظى للمرأة وأحب إلى البعل

[Om-AbdulRahman2]

Question: I was in my menses for 15 days this month and it stopped. I was told that I should have started prayer after 10 days but another sister showed me some daleel that I should have started praying after 15 days. So which one is correct? And also menses began again 6 days after it stopped and I am again not praying. If my menstrual cycle remains this frequent with so little days in between should I just pray? Please help me as I have not prayed most of Ramadaan and I am fearful that I'll miss most of this month because of this erratic cycle.

Answer: First of all, this sister did not clarify if this is her first menses. Did she just reach the age of maturity or has she been having her menses all the time?

If she is a beginner regarding her menses and she doesn’t know her period (the duration of her cycle) then we say look around at the women in your family. What is usually the number of days for those with menses in your family? For example, if it is 6 days then you use 6 days, count 6 days from the beginning of the menses and after those 6 days take a shower (ghusl) and consider that you are out of menses, and what remains is Istihaadah (استحاضة – prolonged bleeding between menstrual cycles). Then you must make wudū’ for every prayer in its time i.e. for the obligatory prayer, and you can pray with that wudū’ the sunnah for that salaah.

In the case where she is not a beginner, then we say that you would already know how many days make up your menses period. Suppose they are 7 or 8, then what exceeds that is considered Istihaadah. So, you take a shower (ghusl) and then make wudū’ for every salaah in its time. If this blood returns after 3-4 days as she says, or 6 days, then this would also be Istihaadah.

However, we also need to take into consideration the specifications of the blood i.e. the color, the thickness and the smell. The blood of menses is dark red, very dark red and it is very thick and smelly – it smells bad. So if it has these three (characteristics) then it might be menses and maybe it is extending the time. Some women have menses for 6 or 7 days for a certain number of years and then suddenly it extends from 6 to 10 or 11 days. For the first month she should wait and observe if the characteristics are the same for the blood that continues. If it is then she should wait until the entire 15 days finishes and the next month she looks, and if it’s the same thing then maybe it is a correcting of the period of the menses of that woman. If the third month it is the same, then it is regularly going to be the same. But if one month it is 15 days, the second month 8 days and the third month 10 days, then we say look to your old menses days and take the number, consider that this is the number of days of your menses. Once this number is passed take a shower (ghusl) and this (the remainder) will be your Istihaadah and you can pray but you must make wudū’ for every prayer, and you can fast. And if you have a husband he can enjoy you. Wallaahu A’lam.


Answered by: Shaykh Muhammad al-Maliki

Title of Lecture: Ramadaan 1427 = 2006

Date of the Lecture: Saturday, October 14th, 2006

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Question: I had an ectopic pregnancy last month and my hair broke off in the middle. I had to get the baby removed from my fallopian tube, if not my tube would have ruptured and I could have died. So I needed a shot and one of the side effects was hair loss. What can I do? I can now get my hair cut off totally or get it braided. But there's a problem as I must get an extension for the hair and this is not to add length, but just so that someone can catch (attach) it and braid it. Is it possible to have an extension of the hair?

Answer: The Sheikh حفظه الله mentioned that this is not permissible because the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم cursed the lady who does this i.e. who puts in those connections and the one who seeks it.[1] Both of them are cursed. For this reason, it is not something that is permissible because the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم forbade it.


Answered by: Shaykh Muhammed As-Subayyal
Title of Lecture: Question and Answers Session

Date of the Lecture: June 11th, 2005

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[1] Reported in Saheeh Muslim, The book of Clothing and Beautification (كتاب اللباس والزينة), Hadeeth (#2124).

[UmmJihad1593]

Question: When my child was born I had him circumcised. I noticed a few days after the circumcision that he still had some skin over the head of his private part. I was told that he was just fat around that area, so I did not give it any notice until recently. He is two years old now. The skin is still around the head of his private part. Should I go to a doctor who specializes in circumcision to get him circumcised again?

Answer: If the skin is big such that the urine (which is impure) gets caught in it, then go to the doctor and have him circumcised again as he is still young and this will be easy for him. Even if the child reaches the age of puberty and the skin which remained there facilitates the accumulation of urine then he should be circumcised. If it is small such that it will not accumulate the urine then there is no need for the piece of skin to be removed. If he is older and may be afraid that he may be harmed by going through the surgery or that it may have some impact on his intimate life with his wife then it is not necessary inshaa Allaah.


Answered by: Shaykh Wasiullaah al-Abbas حفظه الله

Title of Lecture: Explanation of Ad-Durrar Al-Bahiyyah of Imaam Shawkaani - The Book of Purification

Date of the Lecture: CLASS #2 - Delivered on February 18th, 2006

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[UmmQasim]

Question: The next question is from England, the brother asks regarding the supplication of seeing an inflicted person: It is reported that the Prophet صلى الله عليه و سلم said:
"Whoever sees a person that has been inflicted with anything and then says this Du'aa - "Al-hamdu lillaahil-ladhee aafaanee mimmaa ibtalaaka bihi, wa fad-dalanee alaa katheerin mimman khalaqa tafdheelan" (All praise be to Allaah who has pardoned me of that which He has tested you with and favored me over many of those He has created.)" [1] This 'Seeing' is it only 'in person' i.e. when you are actually there and something occurs and you say this supplication? Also with the improvement of technology (T.V, newspapers etc.) we see much more graphic images of the horrible, awful oppressive things that are happening, can we say this supplication when we see this or do we have to be physically there in that place and time?

Answer: The Prophet صلى الله عليه و سلم said whoever sees a sick person or mubtala (one being tried probably this ibtilaa (trial) is in his religion, or probably this ibtilaa is in his health), he should say:

الحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذي عافانِي مِمَّا ابْتَلاكَ بِهِ وَفَضَّلَنِي على كَثِيرٍ مِمَّنْ خَلَقَ تَفضِيلاً

All praise if for Allaah Who saved me from that which He tested you with and Who most certainly favored me over much of His creation."[1]


At-Tirmidhee narrated this hadeeth and he said it is a strange hadeeth and in Majma az-Zawaaid by al-Haithami (مجمع الزوائد / الهيثمي), he said it is a weak hadeeth, but not very weak. In hadeeth terminology there is Saheeh (صحيح authentic) and there is daeef (ضعيف weak), and there are many grades of daeef, e.g. if it is fee kadhaab (there is a liar in it) and there is daeef which is not very weak and which is called hasan. This hadeeth is hasan (not very weak).

When we read the hadeeth, the Messenger صلى الله عليه و سلم says whoever sees a mubtalaa (one being tried) i.e. sick in his religion or his health, and I think seeing can be if you see on the T.V. or if you see on the internet or by whatever means, so whenever you see his picture etc. you can say this duaa. You don't have to be physically seeing the mubtalaa okay. Wallaahu A'lam.


Answered by: Shaykh Salaah Muhammad Aal Shaykh

Title of lecture: Question and answer session

Date of lecture: 20 January 2007

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[1] Reported in Jaami' at-Tirmidhee 5/493 (#3432) as a Ghareeb hadeeth. Shaykh al-Albaanee رحمه الله says with a Saheeh isnaad.

[UmmQasim]

Question: The first question is from Sister Mujahida from New York, she says: My aunt has a daughter who is about 5 and can barely speak and recently started walking. The doctors said there isn’t anything physically wrong with her and she is just slow. Some claim that she has ‘ayn (عين – evil eye) on her and someone suggested that she read Surah Ikhlaas X number of times and she will start walking and talking. My aunt did this for a while and my cousin started to walk. However, I was trying to explain it to her if it was practised by the Sahaabah, but she says, “It is a surah from the Qur’aan and Allaah سبحانه و تعالى says it’s a book that cures, then what’s wrong with me reading it?” The questions are:
i. How do I explain this issue to her?
ii. Is there any ruqyah from Qur’aan and Sunnah that I can give her and tell her to do on her daughter?

Answer: About the question, as I understand it this lady is reading suratul-Ikhlaas and she said inshaa’ Allaah in suratul-Ikhlaas there is a cure. We should know that Allaah سبحانه و تعالى says in the Qur’aan:

وَنُنَزِّلُ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ مَا هُوَ شِفَاءٌ وَرَحْمَةٌ لِّلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَلاَ يَزِيدُ الظَّالِمِينَ إَلاَّ خَسَارًا
{And We send down of the Qur'ân that which is a healing and a mercy to those who believe (in Islâmic Monotheism and act on it), and it increases the Zâlimûn (polytheists and wrong-doers) nothing but loss.} [Al-Israa 17:82]

This cure includes the cure from doubts, cure from physical illness and also from the illness of the soul i.e. shak an-nafsiyyah (شك النفسية – doubting of the soul). So the Qur’aan is a shifaa’ (شفاء – cure). We know this, and we know that there are special surahs that the Messenger of Allaah صلى الله عليه و سلم has guided us to, and some aayaat, and we know the Qur’aan as a whole is ash-shifaa’ (The Cure). When you read Qur’aan Inshaa’ Allaah with the intention of shifaa’, and knowledge (understanding), it is shifaa’.

There are special surahs and aayaat like al-Faatihah, and the beginning aayaat of surah al-Baqarah, and ayatul-Kursi, and suratul-Ikhlaas, suratul-Kaafiroon, the muwaddataan (Surah al-Falaq and an-Naas). There are verses which Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه و سلم tells us that if you read them on a sick then Inshaa’ Allaah they will be cured. There is also a saying of Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه و سلم that I think she can find it in the Sunnah book (Hisnul Muslim) and if she asks her Imaam, he will guide her to it like:
Place your hand at the site of the pain and say: Bismillah ‘In the name of Allaah’ (three times) Then supplicate seven times:

أَعُوْذُ بِاللهِ وَ قُدْرَتِهِ مِنْ شَرِّ مَا أَجِدُ وَ أُحَاذِرُ
A’oodhu billaahi wa qudratihi min sharri ma ajidu wa uhadhir
‘I take refuge in Allaah and within His Omnipotence from the evil that I feel and am wary of.’[6]

Also from the Sunnah of Prophet صلى الله عليه و سلم is to recite:

أَذْهِبِ الْبَاسَ، رَبَّ النَّاسِ، وَاشْفِ أَنْتَ الشَّافِي، لاَ شِفَاءَ إِلاَّ شِفَاؤُكَ، شِفَاءً لاَ يُغَادِرُ سَقَماً

Adhibilba’s Rabbanaas wasfi antashaafee laa shifaa’a illa shifaauka shifaa’an laa yughaadiru saqamaa[7]

So the Qur’aan is shifaa’ and there are special surahs that we can say on the sick person, and he can read them himself. However, specifying a special surah or special aayaat that the Prophet صلى الله عليه و سلم did not mention, is wrong. There is nothing that specifies this and specifying a number of times to read this surah also does not come from Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه و سلم, and the Sahaabah رضي الله عنهم did not do this, so we should follow the way of using the ruqyah shar’iyyah (الشرعية الرقية – permissible incantation). He should not be very harsh regarding this. She is reading Qur’aan and surah al-Ikhlaas has special meanings in it, so I think it is okay to read the Qur’aan but not specific (parts); it is better to read the whole of surah al-Faatihah, Ayatul-Kursi, suratul-Baqarah Wallaahu A’lam.

2. Question: As seen on TV, Muslims call a lady who claims to solve problems. Is it possible for someone to read the Qur'aan over the phone to someone, or advise them to read certain potions of the Qur'aan, and for them to be cured? Is it acceptable or is it shirk? Please note that she is not attributing this to herself.
Answer: If this lady is reading Qur’aan or guiding people to read Qur’aan then she is doing the right thing, she is not doing shirk. Allaah سبحانه و تعالى says that the Qur’aan is shifaa’ (cure);[9] but the problem is specifying particular aayaat or surahs that the Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه و سلم did not specify, and reading them at a certain time and in certain way i.e. the way they do the ruqyah, and specifying special verses that are not specified. This is a mistake. Also, it is much better for the person who is sick to read it himself/herself and to have belief that God will cure him/her; or his parents or his friends or his imaam (may read it for him).

Helping others is a fitnah for this lady as all the people come to her, and if she doesn’t have enough knowledge then Shaitaan will try to divert her to do other things that lead to bid’ah and then go further from bid’ah to shirk. It is also a fitnah that the people who believe in this lady may think that she will cure by herself. But as the question says, if the woman does not claim that she is giving the cure and that Allaah سبحانه و تعالى cures, and she guides them to read the Qur’aan as a cure, then I think Alhamdulillaah there is nothing wrong with it. But it is not acceptable for her to specify things that are not specified by Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه و سلم from Qur’aan, Wallaahu A’lam.

Answered by: Shaykh Salaah Muhammad Aal Shaykh

Title of lecture: Question and answer session

Date of lecture: 20 January 2007

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[6] Reported in Saheeh Muslim, Kitaab as-Salaam (#2203).

[7] Reported in Saheeh al-Bukhaaree, Kitaab at-Tibb (#5418) and Saheeh Muslim, Kitaab as-Salaam (#2191).

[UmmJihad1593]

Question: I take weekly shots at a clinic for an illness. They require putting rubbing alcohol on my skin before giving me the shot. Is this type of alcohol impure or unlawful to touch the skin?

Answer: Rubbing alcohol is from the intoxicants no doubt, but the People of Knowledge have not come to a total agreement about the fact that intoxicants are filthy and impure. Allaah سبحانه و تعالى said in the ayah:

إِنَّمَا الْخَمْرُ وَالْمَيْسِرُ وَالأَنصَابُ وَالأَزْلاَمُ رِجْسٌ
{…Intoxicants (all kinds of alcoholic drinks), and gambling, and Al-Ansâb, and Al-Azlâm (arrows for seeking luck or decision) are abominations…} [Al-Maa’idah 5:90]

The idols worshipped, gambling and intoxicants are the work of Shaytaan i.e. they are haraam – unlawful. Worshipping the idols is haraam, gambling is haraam and drinking the intoxicants is haraam, but it does not mean that it is impure just because it is haraam. If we say that the intoxicants are impure then we say that the other things which came before in the ayah are also impure, so then we would say that if someone touches an idol that other people worship, then we would say that he is najis (touched by an impurity). This is not the correct thinking.

If the person wants to wash the area with water, or the clothing that may have been touched by the rubbing alcohol, in order to come out from the khilaaf (difference of opinion of the scholars), then we say mashaa Allaah he can do that. But, if he prays while he still has the cotton for the bandage that has the rubbing alcohol – then we say that his salaah is correct and his wudhu’ is valid, even if the smell still remains. We do not say that he becomes impure and that he has to wash his body or clothing.


Answered by: Shaykh Wasiullaah al-Abbas حفظه الله

Title of Lecture: Explanation of Ad-Durrar Al-Bahiyyah of Imaam Shawkaani - The Book of Purification

Date of the Lecture: CLASS #4 - Delivered on April 15th, 2006

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[UmmQasim]

Question: If a person is on life support and is in a coma or brain-dead, is it permissible to take him off life support?

Answer: If it is hoped that he would come out of the coma then nothing is wrong with keeping him on it. However, if it is confirmed that he is brain dead and there is no hope of return then there is no problem in pulling the plug from the machine


Answered by: Shaykh Abdullah Al Ghuydaan

Title of lecture:Question and answer session

Date of lecture: 17th November 2007

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[ummkulthoom]

Question: When a Muslim has a serious illness that may affect his ibaadah (worship), should he ask Allaah to cure him or is it better for him to have sabr (patience)?

Answer: It is known that Allaah سبحانه و تعالى has legislated means, and from those means is ar-Ruqaa the recitation of certain verses of the Qur'aan or certain supplication. We may also use the modern methods available in this day and time for curing illnesses. Allaah سبحانه و تعالى mentions in the Qur'aan:

وَنُنَزِّلُ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ مَا هُوَ شِفَاء وَرَحْمَةٌ لِّلْمُؤْمِنِينَ
{And We send down of the Qur'aan that which is a healing and a mercy to those who believe (in Islamic Monotheism and act on it)} [al-Israa 17:82]

There is a narration of an individual who was stung by a scorpion and one of the Companions of the Prophet صلى الله عليه و سلم recited suratul-Faatihah over him and Allaah cured him. After this was done and the Prophet صلى الله عليه و سلم was presented with the scenario, he asked what was it that made you know that this could be used as a ruqyah (incantation that can be recited)?[1] Similarly, the types of tablets available, the water of Zamzam, and all of the modern methods that are used, and even operations that are performed, are all means that may be utilized and it does not go against a persons being dependent on Allaah سبحانه و تعالى.

However, if a person is afflicted and he would like that Allaah سبحانه و تعالى use his affliction as atonement for the removal of his sins so that he may gain a greater reward, then this is left up to the individual. The Prophet صلى الله عليه و سلم in dealing with this issue mentioned that from the seventy thousand (70,000) that will enter Jannah without any reckoning are those who do not seek ruqyah from others and they do not have superstition concerning bad omens and they do not do cauterization.[2]


Answered by: Shaykh Abdullah Al Ghuydaan

Title of lecture: Tafseer Surah Al-Hujuraat, Class #3

Date answered: 3rd February 2007

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[1] Reported with similar wording as part of a long hadeeth in Saheeh al-Bukhaaree, Kitaab al-Ijaarah (#2156).

[2] As part of a longer hadeeth with the following wording, Shaykh al-Albaanee رحمه الله says Saheeh in Saheeh al-Jaami (#3999). Reported as part of a longer hadeeth with similar wording in Saheeh al-Bukhaaree, Kitaab at-Tibb (#5420).

[ummkulthoom]

Question: Next question from Sister Umm Mary from Delaware, she says: I had a baby two months ago and due to complications I now use contraception. The kind I use causes the lining of uterus to thin causing bleeding. The blood is the same colour and smell as my normal period. Can I consider this the blood of menses?

Answer: Alhamdulillah. Sister Umm Mary from Delaware is asking about the blood that comes under circumstance an operation or something like that and she's saying that she observed this blood and it has the same specifications or characteristics as the blood of menses.

We say if the blood has the same characteristics of the blood of menses and it is the normal period (time) of menses that you had before, then yes, this would be a menses period even if the blood is continuously running. But if it is not at the same time of your regular period of menses, then no, it is something called istihaadah which doesn't have the same ruling as menses. In that case you will only make wudhu for every salaah for every prayer like Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, Eesha and Fajr when that time of the prayer enters; and other than that, you practice your life normally, wallahu A'lam.


Answered by: Shaykh Muhammad al-Maliki

Title of lecture: Question & Answer Session

Date answered: November 25th, 2006

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[ummkulthoom]

Question: Next question is about Ruqyah for a child. Can there be ruqyah for a 5 year old child who is suffering and he has lack of ability to speak?

Answer: Yes you can do ruqyah to this child as ruqyah is one of the treatments, and it is one of the best treatments. But, beside that you need to see the medical doctor for maybe this baby or child has a medical problem. But yes, you can do ruqyah. Muslims should always practise the ruqyah.


Answered by: Shaykh Muhammad al-Maliki

Title of lecture: Question & Answer Session

Date answered: November 25th, 2006

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[ummkulthoom]

Question: I am a sister that is not able to concieve unless by artificial insemination i.e. by taking my egg and my husband's sperm and fertilizing it outside my womb and then placing it in my womb. What is the correct ruling on this ? Baarak Allaahu feekum.

Answer: This is what is called artificial insemination. There is some slight differing amongst the scholars but, the fiqh councils say that it is permissible with the condition that it is absolutely certain that the semen that will be mixed with the egg of the woman is the semen of the husband, and that there is no mix-up. So, if there is safety from any mix-up occurring then yes, it is permissible. There should be in this situation a doctor who is completely trustworthy and reliable and another doctor who should supervise that doctor, and it is preferable that the supervising doctor or both doctors be Muslims. However, if the doctor is known for his truthfulness, trustworthiness and reliability then it is not a condition that he is a Muslim, even though that would be better. To summarize, if the situation is safe from there being a mix-up then it is permissible as most of the scholars have said that it is permissible although there is some slight differing on the matter.

Answered by: Shaykh Saalih as-Suhaymeeحفظه الله

Title of Lecture: General Questions & Answer Session

Date of the Lecture: March 11th, 2006

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[ummkulthoom]

Question: What is the ruling on being immunized (getting vaccinations) as the ingredients in some vaccines are haraam (unlawful). They may contain pig, blood, and human or animal body parts; for example the Chicken Pox vaccine and DPT (Diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis) vaccine. What is the ruling on these vaccinations?

Answer: Generally, Islaam came to protect the body, the soul, the wealth, the mind and the heart; as such, there is a well-known saying Protection is better than treatment. (الوقاية خير من العلاج Prevention is better than cure). Vaccination is one means of protection and Islaam calls for that. As we all know, at the time of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم, there was no vaccination, but there were some ways of protection (against disease) like quarantine. The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said: Do not put a patient with a healthy person and the healthy person should not be placed with an ill person.[1] This was in order to control the spread of the disease. He صلى الله عليه وسلم said: If there is disease (plague) in a land you should not enter it (so as to catch it), and if you are in it, you should not leave it.[2] Even if you are not ill (you should not leave the land) because you may carry the virus. From that, the `Ulamaa' have determined that in this time when Science has become advanced such that they have found some means of protection, like vaccines; they say that vaccinations are permissible as it is a way to protect mankind. And Allaah knows Best.


Answered by: Shaykh Muhammad al-Maliki

Title of lecture: Question & Answer Session

Date answered: December 29th, 2007

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[1] Reference pending.
However, the first part of the hadeeth quoted was reported with the following wording in Saheeh al-Bukhaaree on the authority of Abu Hurayrah رضي الله عنه in The Book of Medicine (كتاب الطب), Hadeeth (#5437). Also reported in Saheeh Muslim and other than that.

لا يوردنَّ ممرِض على مصح

[2] Reported with the following wording in Saheeh al-Bukhaaree in The Book of Medicine (كتاب الطب), Hadeeth (#5396). Also reported in Saheeh Muslim with a similar wording.

إذا سمعتم بالطاعون بأرض فلا تدخلوها، وإذا وقع بأرض وأنتم بها فلا تخرجوا منها