Organ donation: Opinion of a Muslim Heart Surgeon

Abstract Heart failure affects an estimated 64.3 million people worldwide (1). Heart transplantation is a well-established treatment option and remains the gold standard therapy for patients suffering from end stage heart failure (2) although major technological...

The Beginning of Life and Abortion

All praise be to Allah, and may His blessings and peace be upon His messenger. There are many interfaces between fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) and medicine. After all, the subject-matter of medicine is the human body, which is tasked with religious duties. The rulings...