Waleed Basyouni – Is Organ Donation After Death Permissible in Islam – Ask The Imam
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The speaker discusses donating organs after death, including organs from one's body, heart, and brain, as it is allowed in Islam. They also mention donating organs from a deceased
or someone who is not a Muslim. The speaker emphasizes the importance of donating organ organ for research and development, as it is considered a "has been used for research and development."
or someone who is not a Muslim. The speaker emphasizes the importance of donating organ organ for research and development, as it is considered a "has been used for research and development."
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As-salamu alaykum, Shaykh.
We have a question about donating organs after
death.
What does Islam say about this?
Okay.
Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim.
This is also one of the modern issues,
and I'm glad that you said after death.
Because before death, you're allowed to donate organs
with the following conditions.
So, kind of give both scenarios.
So, before death, anything that you're going to
donate from your organs, it has to be
donated, it has to be an organ that
if you donate it, it will not cause
death to you, obviously.
Okay.
Like, you don't donate your head, you don't
donate your heart.
Also, it will not cause disability.
Like, somebody will not be able to walk,
will not be able to move his hand
again, you know.
Also, and it will not put your life
in danger.
Like, make you high, high risk of death.
That's why you're allowed to donate, for example,
part of your liver, part of your, or
one kidney, or partial of your lung to
be, maybe something like to be used to
build, like, implant.
I don't know, like blood, you know, blood
cells, stuff like that.
Also, they said, you have to do it
willingly.
Also, you cannot sell it, it has to
be donated.
Also, you are not allowed to give it
to someone you know that he will use
this to fight Islam.
Like, somebody who is not hostile against Muslims.
He can be non-Muslim, but is not
somebody hostile against Muslims.
Some of these rules will apply also to
donating organs after death.
So, after death, it has to be something
you agree on it to be given.
Like, you're giving a permission for this after
your death.
Also, before your death, you write in your
will, or you've been taking, you know, permission,
giving permission to do that.
Number two, it has to be donated to
someone who is not hostile to Muslims.
Even if he's not a Muslim.
Because, non-Muslim, you can donate to them,
you can give them.
You remember the hadith, when she came to
the Prophet, and said, my mother is not
a Muslim.
You can be good to her, you can
give her, you can donate to her.
So, they are eligible to receive these kind
of, any type of donations, or any kind
of act of kindness and help.
So, you are allowed to do that.
Also, the ulama, the fuqaha, may Allah put
a condition, you cannot donate an organ that
is responsible for reproduction.
Like, a woman, you cannot donate, for example,
a womb, or ovaries, or *, or
prostate, if that's what produces *.
They said, not allowed to donate that.
Okay?
The Muslim, also, new Muslim jurists, or the
Muslim jurists in modern days, also they said,
it should be done in a way, there
is no humiliation to the body.
Like, for example, he will not be cut
off, and like, disfigured, and left like, you
know, pieces, and cut in pieces, and it
will be treated with disrespect.
It has to be done in a process
that also maintains a level of dignity to
the deceased.
With these conditions, the Muslim jurists, and one
of the biggest councils of fatwa in the
Muslim world, Majmar al-Fiqh al-Islami, allowed
donating organs after death, with these guidelines.
And I would like to say, this is
different, different, than what we have today, they
call it, donating the body for science experiments,
or research lab.
So, some people say, my body, I donate
my body for research lab.
And this research lab, they take the body,
and they start doing some research on it.
There is a lot of interesting documents made
about these kind of research labs.
Many of them are not regulated, many of
them, they use this to sell organs, which
is not allowed.
They don't have any kind of respect for
the bodies, and I don't believe a Muslim
should do, or basically donate his body to
such thing.
You know, there is enough non-Muslims can
do that, even for a proper search lab
exists.
So, the Muslim body should be protected, in
my opinion.
But, donating an organ through channels that it
is trusted, where I can save somebody else's
life, that's fine.
You know, and by the way, people say,
so if you donate my heart to somebody
else's heart, does that mean he became mu'min,
he became kafir?
No, because the iman and kafir are all
related to your soul, not to the flesh
and the body.
Does that DNA affect the new person's DNA?
Would he be impacted by some of your
DNA, and morals, and behaviors, and characteristics, and
stuff like that?
Would there be any connection between the two?
I don't know.
Not knowing this, will not change the rules.
Because the rules in Islam are based on
the appearance, the zahir.
But that's an area, still an area of
research, there is a lot of interesting research
about those, that people change after, you know,
receiving a new heart.
Yeah, they start experiencing different memories.
Stuff like that, or brain, or stuff like
that.
So, science will bring a lot of interesting
things in the future, but the Muslim hafuqa,
rahimallah, endures in modern days.
They didn't fully make these issues a determined
factor of halal and haram.
A final point, there is many scholars don't
allow organ donations after death.
And they say because it is kind of
humiliation to the body, and cutting the bodies,
and stuff like that.
And that's also an opinion that exists.
For me, I think the fatwa of the
majma' al-fiqh is a stronger fatwa.
It is something that is permissible, and you
are allowed to do if you think.
You live in a place that they will
respect the rules, they have some ethic codes,
and moral codes, and that it is good
to save somebody else's life, alhamdulillah.
May Allah bless you.