Donating the organs of a dying person
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The questioner:
At your command, O Shaykh. At your command. In some critical moments in the car. If some doctors ask the family of a person in labor to donate his eye and his heart to save five months, is this permissible?
The Shaykh:
What?
The questioner:
If a person is on the verge of death, and the doctor informs them that he is in a state of dying, and asks his awliya (close friends of Allah) to donate his eye and his heart to grow in other bodies, is this permissible?
The Shaykh:
There is a disagreement among the scholars, and the correct view is that it should not be done. We hold that it should not be done. One should not mess with the dead, nor expose them to harm. A deceased person is respected, and it should not be done to him, whether by taking his eye, or his tongue, or his ear, or anything else.
At your command, O Shaykh. At your command. In some critical moments in the car. If some doctors ask the family of a person in labor to donate his eye and his heart to save five months, is this permissible?
The Shaykh:
What?
The questioner:
If a person is on the verge of death, and the doctor informs them that he is in a state of dying, and asks his awliya (close friends of Allah) to donate his eye and his heart to grow in other bodies, is this permissible?
The Shaykh:
There is a disagreement among the scholars, and the correct view is that it should not be done. We hold that it should not be done. One should not mess with the dead, nor expose them to harm. A deceased person is respected, and it should not be done to him, whether by taking his eye, or his tongue, or his ear, or anything else.
Source
التعليق على بعض أحاديث صحيح مسلم، تابع شرح كتاب الجنائز (2) — islamhouse.com (44:04)
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