Health, Medicine and Death

Islam permits abortion in early pregnancy for a sound reason, and later to save the mother's life. What the Quran, the hadith, and the four schools say.

Organ donation is halal and rewarded. Saving one life is like saving all humanity (5:32), and the Islamic Fiqh Academy permits donation with consent.

IVF is halal. Egypt's 1980 fatwa and the Islamic Fiqh Academy permit it for married couples, and Shia jurists such as Khamenei also allow donor gametes.

Depression is an illness, and it says nothing about the strength of your iman. Prophets knew deep grief, and Islam teaches believers to seek treatment.

A Muslim who dies by suicide remains a Muslim: washed, prayed over, buried among believers, and in the hands of Allah, whose mercy outstrips His wrath.

Burial is the sunna, and Muslims do not cremate their dead. Where law or disaster forces cremation, the deceased bears no sin and Allah's mercy is unchanged.

When someone dies, Muslims say inna lillahi, wash and shroud the body, pray the janazah prayer, and bury the deceased quickly, then comfort the family.

The Prophet asked believers not to pray for death because of hardship and taught a gentler duʿāʾ instead. Allah's mercy is near to anyone in pain.

Donating and receiving blood are halal. Saving one life is like saving all humanity (5:32), and the Islamic Fiqh Academy permits blood donation.

Muslims can see a therapist. The Prophet commanded seeking treatment for every illness, and Muslim physicians pioneered care for the mind.

Male circumcision is a sunna of the fitra from Abraham. Hanafi and Maliki scholars hold it recommended, not required, and no one's Islam depends on it.

Egg freezing is halal, for medical reasons and to preserve fertility for later. The Islamic Fiqh Academy itself recognized preserving unfertilized eggs in 1990.

A vasectomy or tubal ligation is permitted for a medical reason or when a couple has completed their family and decides together. The scholars differ.

Crying when someone dies is halal and a mercy. The Prophet wept for his son Ibrahim and said Allah does not punish tears or the grief of the heart.

Sunni fiqh councils forbid surrogacy, and many Shia jurists permit the gestational kind. The merciful view allows it with a couple's own embryo and consent.

Islam forbids deliberately ending a patient's life, but it permits withholding futile treatment and treats pain relief and care of the dying as mercy.

Vaccines are halal. They protect life, a core aim of the sharia, and gelatin in some vaccines is permitted by transformation (istihala) and necessity.