Drinking the blood of the monitor lizard for the purpose of healing
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: Is it permissible for a Muslim to drink the blood of a monitor lizard that has been ritually slaughtered, on the grounds that it contains a cure?
The Shaykh:
Blood is forbidden[Al-Ma'idah 5:3]. Blood is forbidden; it is not to be drunk, nor used as a medicine, except in the case of emergency medical blood transfusion, which is permissible. As for drinking it to gain extra strength, or claiming that it contains a cure and asserting that it is a cure, that is a disease. Blood is a disease; how can you drink it? Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
Have the doctors decided that monitor lizard blood is to be drunk? You are not even a patient who needs emergency treatment with monitor lizard blood or anything else. Moreover, monitor lizard blood is not suitable for you. Only human blood that matches yours is suitable for you. It must match yours, according to the doctors' report. This is not a matter of chaos. Yes. You are putting something into your body without knowing what its consequences will be. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: Is it permissible for a Muslim to drink the blood of a monitor lizard that has been ritually slaughtered, on the grounds that it contains a cure?
The Shaykh:
Blood is forbidden
Prohibited to you are dead animals, blood, the flesh of swine
حُرِّمَتْ عَلَيْكُمُ الْمَيْتَةُ وَالدَّمُ وَلَحْمُ الْخِنزِيرِThe questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
Have the doctors decided that monitor lizard blood is to be drunk? You are not even a patient who needs emergency treatment with monitor lizard blood or anything else. Moreover, monitor lizard blood is not suitable for you. Only human blood that matches yours is suitable for you. It must match yours, according to the doctors' report. This is not a matter of chaos. Yes. You are putting something into your body without knowing what its consequences will be. Yes.
Source
شرح العقيدة الواسطية، العقيدة الواسطية 19-06-1437هـ — alfawzan.live (1:14:02)
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