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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Discussion of the previously mentioned ruling on a person donating his body organs

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The questioner : Regarding this, mutilation differs in your view. The mutilation referred to here is intended to insult the deceased and to hold a grudge against the deceased. But this person who donates after death to have his cornea taken, as King Hussein did when he made that will, as long as he did it as a humanitarian act intending to save another man, it is not considered mutilation. It differs from mutilation because the intention here is different. So do we have any other evidence besides...

The Shaykh : This evidence is sufficient for you, along with the words you are quoting from others. This is enough for me so that you do not utter such words. This is sufficient as a proof, and we do not need any other evidence. That is because I say that an act which is reprehensible in the Shari'ah is not judged by the intention. The intention in the well-known saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him):
Actions are only by intentions إنما الأعمال بالنيات
This is the meaning of the hadith. As for a person coming to do a reprehensible act—welcome, how are you?—as for a person committing an act...
The student : Go, sleep. Go, sleep.

The Shaykh : Go, sleep. Your father is telling you, go, sleep. Come on, how are you?
The student : May Allah reward you.

The Shaykh : May you be well.
The student: All right.

The Shaykh : Welcome. As for a Muslim coming to do an act that is reprehensible in the Shari'ah or prohibited by the Shari'ah, but his intention is good, there is no such thing in Islam. Like, for example, one who faces the grave and says, "My intention is to pray for the sake of Allah." Some of the misguided among them might add, "My intention is to seek blessing from this deceased person. I am not directing my bowing, prostration, or standing to him, and so on." No heed is paid to this. If he sat on the grave of the deceased and said, "I do not intend to insult him," no heed is paid to it. This is mutilation, whether the intention is bad or good. Justifying or excusing such reprehensible acts with the term "humanity," which did not originate from Muslims but from the disbelievers, and their "humanity" while they do what I mentioned earlier in Bosnia and Herzegovina—humanity is only realized in these simple details, while the destruction of an entire people here leaves no place for humanity in the grammar.
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