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Bioethics in Islam
Bioethics in Islam
4. Consensus (Ijma)
Consensus of the community of scholars over a solution
to a legal and practical issue. When a certain ruling
lasts the test of time, more and more jurists as well as
people accept the ruling achieving a consensus
over that matter.
Slide 6 Bioethics in Islam
Human Life
It is Allah that gives Life and Death, and
Allah sees well all that you do.
(Quran, Al-Imran, 3:156) (Tr. Y.Ali)
The issues concerning euthanasia,
contraception and abortion are
related to the competing rights to life
and reproduction.
Who say, when afflicted with calamity: "To Allah We belong, and to
Him is our return. (Quran, Al-Baqara, 2:156) (Tr. Y.Ali)
Who gives me food and drink. And when I am ill it is He Who cures
me. (Quran, Ash-Shu'ara, 26:79-80) (Tr. Y.Ali)
IVF is permissible