Explanation of the invalidity of the principle that the end justifies the means.

The Shaykh : Nevertheless, I see that this approach elevates itself above the principle that the end does not justify the means in Islam, unlike the disbelievers, who say it either by their actions or by their words, and in many cases, actions speak louder than words. These disbelievers say, "The end justifies the means." And so, as you see in this life, in this era and others, they consider permissible what no religion permits after Islam, with all its flaws and imperfections. Why? Because the end justifies the means. We do not need to hear the disbelievers explicitly state what their actions already declare, "The end justifies the means." We do not expect to hear such a statement from these disbelievers, because, as you know, they are people of politics, and therefore they act contrary to what they express and say. However, we want all our Muslim brothers, whether they are jurists or not, scholars or not, not to imitate the disbelievers in their systems, their methodologies, their path of conduct, or their lives, and this includes the principle that the end justifies the means. Therefore, you find that when they say, "My brother, this person is going to die, so we will save him by taking an organ from this living person," the end justifies the means. No, this is his property, and it is not permissible for him to dispose of it. Here a question arises, and the answer is known from what has preceded, but this strengthens the position: even if the deceased had written a bequest stating that he permits the use of an organ or two organs, or an eye or both eyes, or something similar, we say that this bequest is invalid. Because this deceased person has no right to dispose of his body after his death. He has finished, he has moved from this life to the barzakh (the interval between death and resurrection), and he will be taken with all his baggage, and he has no right to dispose of his body, unlike what was permissible for him to dispose of during his lifetime.