The Ruling on Television Imaging of Doctors When There Is a Need
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The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Doctors need television imaging, and that is to monitor the condition of patients during poor operations. Is that considered among the forbidden types of imaging?
The Shaykh:
If dire necessity calls for imaging, if dire necessity calls for imaging for a residence permit, a passport, a driver’s license, or for a patient to verify his illness, this is permissible, permissible due to dire necessity. He, Mighty and Majestic, said:[Al-Baqarah 2:173] It is heard from it. He, Mighty and Majestic, said: [Al-An'am 6:119]. Yes.
The questioner:
It becomes, Honorable tourism.
The Shaykh:
Eating it is not, if he fears for his life to the point of death and he has no food, he responds to death, does it come with dire necessity?
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Doctors need television imaging, and that is to monitor the condition of patients during poor operations. Is that considered among the forbidden types of imaging?
The Shaykh:
If dire necessity calls for imaging, if dire necessity calls for imaging for a residence permit, a passport, a driver’s license, or for a patient to verify his illness, this is permissible, permissible due to dire necessity. He, Mighty and Majestic, said:
But whoever is forced [by necessity], neither desiring [it] nor transgressing [its limit], there is
فَمَنِ اضْطُرَّ غَيْرَ بَاغٍ وَلَا عَادٍ فَلَاwhile He has explained in detail to you what He has forbidden you, excepting that to which you are compelled
وَقَدْ فَصَّلَ لَكُم مَّا حَرَّمَ عَلَيْكُمْ إِلَّا مَا اضْطُرِرْتُمْ إِلَيْهِThe questioner:
It becomes, Honorable tourism.
The Shaykh:
Eating it is not, if he fears for his life to the point of death and he has no food, he responds to death, does it come with dire necessity?
Source
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