Fatwa: Organ donation is permissible in Islam - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki

say you can you donate your organs after death that's a good question you see can you donate your organs yes you can you need to understand something here donating organs is not Haram contrary to what you may have been taught we have to remember that look in the UK our Islam our version of Islam is influenced massively by two things by two two places regions in the world

Pakistan indo-pak in Pakistan Bangladesh but heavily like the Pakistani culture and Saudi Arabia both of these places have they probably influenced 90% of the Islam we have in the UK and maybe in in America a huge amount maybe not 90% but a massive amount there as well so we have to understand that these countries whatever they say we think that's Islam but there are so many other countries 14 plus more countries in the world are

Muslim Indonesia Malaysia Egypt Tunis Morocco in our Jordan Palestine all these places Turkey all these places in the world have Muslims even other countries have Muslims China has a huge population of Muslims you know we restrict our understanding of Islam just India has a huge population of India is sometimes very similar to Pakistan sometimes a bit different but they my point is that the views here are massively infrasonic ant donate organs

that's not true we can the hadith they try to use is completely misrepresented okay the hadith they are using is the saying of the Prophet that her metal that that day's sanctity of in son matin karate he Hagan that the former of an in son of a individual and mark wants his dead is that the sanctity is the same as what whilst he was alive now this hadith is speaking about Muslim okay you have to understand Muslim now

Muslim people is a it's basically have you watched movies like hostel not to sidetrack or the whole sauce onra Fri jigsaw let's play a game so this mindset right people had I'm just trying to give your twisted mindset people in the past had this kind of a mindset especially to do with battles okay so when battles took place or raids or when they attacked an enemy tribe

these kind of like kind of Muslim version of like these kind of Viking figures and the reason I relate people to fighting Vikings is because that image comes clearly in your mind and Muslims in there very early Arabia and you know pre Islam and even into Islam had that culture they used to live off raiding each other and things like this now this culture when they attacked other tribes or they had a rivalry and they beat their opponents they would maim them and they would really go hostile and jigsaw on them they really would like they would cut out weird

parts of their bodies they would like cut out like the famous hadith of like hind' cutting out Hamzah's liver and biting it you know like this kind of culture existed they would do things like cut off ears you know a bit like what you saw in in the Vietnam War people making kind of necklaces out of Vietnamese years and things like these people live that kind of culture they would do things like cut off limbs hang it in the person's the dead person's bought a body like around his neck like maybe cut off his hand hang it here cut off his head stick it on a spike they would cut out like parts of his body he could have his pull out his

heart they would do these kind of like horrific things so the Prophet taught them that is Haram it is forbidden and the sanctity of a human once he's dead is the sanctity of a human once he's alive this is what the prophet of God was teaching he was not talking about organ donations right you see that is such you see this is so naive that you take the profit and you place him in an anti progressive kind of position like that the profit is against humanity

progressing warrant you know how irresponsible can you become in the prophet's time organ transplants like this didn't happen more primitive versions did happen okay it's like like the prototypes like so for example having a fake nose so so there was a companion in the lifetime of the Prophet whose nose got cut off in in a battle and he took a nose made out of gold he stuck it on the Prophet never said anything to him like hey what the hell does that nose serve as a function you know it's why are you wearing gold or

why have you even got a nose it's not like you can smell with it you know it's not like these these kind of things no why are you wearing that God knows just so you changing the creation of God or is it just so you can compete with other human beings this isn't how the Prophet treated him the Prophet never said anything to him he kept the golden nose like the Prophet this is a known incident and there were other examples as well where people did these things these were very early prototype versions of what will come in our time as actual organ transplants obviously humanity still had a long way to go before it

could discover all these things and that's all good a la saison you know do you have a let me you know how did do you not see caifa better along huh how elaborate began creation serie fil ardi from the walk and look and search and discover so so this point of organs now later on after the profit within a few centuries muslims like within even two centuries muslims started to do certain prototype surgeries like they would get animal

bones and sometimes mend them they would do things like like let's say a person needed something they would use sometimes some animal bones and wrap it up and see if that could heal some of the early scholars speak about these sometimes if a person lost like let's say person like for tooth like let's say your tooth had fallen out or your teeth were broken sometimes they used artificial things gold other times they like just got your teeth and just held them there and sometimes it kind of just sealed itself back in and there's a whole discussion we the scholars see no problem with this kind of stuff and in

miami Scheffer you also did have a problem with stuff like this considering he considered it to be dead and and felt that you have to break it back out which I think makes no sense but uh the and then we come to our time when this is actually viable now you see people who are gifting their organs this is falls under the verse of the Quran woman yeah and who brought a soul to life anima aji and acidemia

then he has brought the entire mankind to life this is the kind of verse that relates to stuff like this now there is I speak often about the share Holies LOM of the last century and the Grand Mufti of the Mauna Kea even heard his successor and junior to him and a student of his but also a very senior Dola who was in his time deemed the Grand Mufti of the Maliki is chef mohammad al Aziz mohammad al Aziz joy yet now I do have his photo around here

somewhere and I've quoted them in the past the chef giant he in he in the 60s speaks about this issue of organ donation but tomorrow they call it kind of tomorrow Allah Allah that kind of giving your limbs and things like this especially if a person is dead and he issues the fatwa it's absolutely fine many of the older model Azhar have issued the photo it's absolutely fine they've said it does not violate any understanding of Islam it does not go against the Quran it does not go against any established sunlight does not approve the principle and if anything those hadith are talking about

something else and he actually corroborates the verse of the Quran about whoever gives life and I think it's one of the greatest acts of charity that a human being can ever do and I'll be honest with you I think it's actually very scary it's a scary thought even if I think about it I'll kind of be a bit scared if I'm gonna be honest even though I know that I'm dead which is weird but I still the thought of somebody kind of like taking my eyes out you know taking my liver out pulling my heart out the thought of these things

are really freaky and if I'm gonna be honest I think it's that fear that really makes people say it's Haram nothing else in my understanding or maybe some ignorant kind of interpretations and so this is why I would just be I'll be honest with you I'd be kind of frightened and freaked out about doing this if anything it's just the fear even though it's technically an irrational fear but it's an instinctual fear it doesn't make sense because you're dead anyway in your body parts will just I mean in a post-mortem they'll kind of cut up your

pieces anyway then they just kind of chuck them back in and sew it up but right so the point is you wouldn't feel it if you're dead no I mean if you're asking do does the dead person feel this from an Islamic perspective no because whatever's in this world stays in this world right it's like it still it's got the Vegas rule to it whatever's from this world it stays in this world right so the dead person doesn't feel it at all but I mean the fear that you have now even though you know your body will be dead but you still kind of freaked out by it so that's all it is and I think people

who are so adamant on this rule really I think they ought to if they really believe in this and they prepared to preach it then they ought to sign a clause that they will never accept a donor from anybody else you know you can't be and they will never encourage anybody of these to take a donor you know if the parent was dying and they could get a receive a donor of a kidney or a liver to save their life or their heart or their child then they should encourage that person you know if you're gonna preach to people to not give then you can't preach to to take that's wrong

I think that's double standards and he shows the religion as a hypocrisy so that's what I'm gonna say that if you have you interpretation which is a wrong understanding of a hadith but if you want to push that and you want to say this is in the name of God then you should stand true to your principle and never allow anybody to as far as advice is concerned to take either not be the first one you know because these people a lot of these I don't mean to dis them but you know these pot bellied kind of people and you know illnesses can befall anybody can can afflict you know they can afflict anybody but a lot of them will sometimes all they'll have issues

and they'll be straight on the list oh yeah can I get a kidney transplant can I get this can I get that can I get a blood transfusion kind of take a conference live a hell yet no no no this this stuff is it makes embarrasses the Dean and it betrays Allah and His Messenger in portraying the true image of Islam