Question: My mother still has to fast some days from Ramadan that she missed in the past. She is now sick (chronical) so she has to take her medicine every day (10 times). During the month of Ramadan she didn’t take her medicines because she felt strong enough to manage without (Alhamdulillah everything went ok). [...]

Question: What is the ruling concerning smoking of marijuana (also known as cannabis or weed) in Islam? Is it haraam, makrooh or mubah? People have argued it is different from alcohol because it is unprocessed and taken directly from the plant it is grown in as well as having many medicinal benefits. Answer: Smoking Marijuana [...]

Question: Is it prohibited to consume human chorionic gonadotrophin when it is derived from urine? Answer: The first thing to note is that human chorionic gondatrophin (hCG) can also be made synthetically in a laboratory and this does not involved urine at all. The brand of hCG made like this is called Ovedril. That point [...]

Question: In this time there are pros and cons for vaccinations: there are some people who think that vaccines are illegitimate or haram, viewed in terms of materials used to make vaccines. Some products derived from animal and human tissue make them “haram” or unlawful for Muslims to take. Some others said that in terms of [...]

Question: There is a natural medicine called Glucosamine which has been shown to have small benefit for people with osteoarthritis in the knee. It is made from shellfish. Shellfish includes some haram things like oysters/lobsters and some halal things like shrimp and prawn. There is another medication used for the same purpose called Chondroitin. This [...]

Question: My question is about personal research-based decisions to refuse medical intervention, treatments, vaccines, and going against decisions of medics in conditions of today’s medicine. It is well-known that medicine today, particularly in western societies and those which follow their example, has become a big business rather than social service. In such a case, severity [...]