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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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What is the ruling on organ transplantation? And an explanation of the hadith (Breaking the bone of a believing dead person is like breaking it while he is alive) and a mention of its benefits.

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The Shaykh : As for organ transplantation, many muftis today hold this view, but I do not see it as permissible in any case. This is because Islam here also displays its superiority over other religions and over worldly methodologies. They consider issues that others do not notice, or they notice them but do not give them weight. Islam, for example, says
Breaking the bone of a dead believer is like breaking it while he is alive. كسر عظم الميت المؤمن ككسره حيا
So if there is a Muslim doctor who says that if there is a person... and another who has had one of his limbs amputated, and he permits the doctor to cut an organ from him and attach it to that person whose limb was amputated, this may be adopted... weight for the human being whom Allah the Exalted distinguished, as He said
And We have certainly honored the children of Adam and carried them on the land and sea ولقد كرمنا بني أدم وحملناهم في البر والبحر
[Al-Isra 17:70]
to the end of the verse. So Allah honored the human being, and within the limits of this honor, He forbade him certain things that others consider permissible. He forbade changing the creation of Allah in the broadest sense, except what Allah has permitted, and He forbade mutilation, even in the case of dead disbelievers. It is not permissible for a Muslim to mutilate a disbeliever if he falls as a casualty in a battle. So I say that if one of the Muslim doctors permits this transaction, transferring an organ from a living person to another person, because he has allowed it, and I do not think... says that, then it will be easy for us to understand the previous hadith
Breaking the bone of a dead believer is like breaking it while he is alive. كسر عظم الميّت المؤمن ككسره حيا
Therefore, I do not see the permissibility of organ transplantation, which has become widespread today among...
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