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A couple of questions on Ramadan.

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1) If one is balig and it is nessecary for him to fast and he can’t due to health problems, what can he do to make up for lost fasts other than paying £2.00 fitrana for everyday missed? 2) Does the blessed seed oil (Kalunji) have the ailment for curing diabetes?- and if it does then in what way must one consume it? 3) If it is haraam for one to donate an organ, is it haraam for one to accept it ? 4) Is there a minimum age for one to go to jihad?

Answer

If a person is unable to fast due to health reasons, he will be excused from
fasting. If there is a possibility of him recovering, then he has to make
qadhaa (make up) for the missed fasts whenever he recovers. In such a
situation, there is no compensation for the missed fasts. That Fidya is only
when one is permanently unable to fast. There is nothing more to be done
besides giving Fidya.
2. We do not know
Kindly refer to our standard answer on organ transplant below.
When a male is physically matured or he is at least 15 years of age, he
qualifies to participate in Jihaad.

and Allah Ta’ala Knows Best

Mufti Ebrahim Desai
FATWA DEPT.

Organ Transplant
Many Islamic scholars and Jurists have written on the subject of organ
transplant. Over the decades, medicine has improved and advanced
dramatically, taking medical technology to extreme heights.
Today, through the vast medical advancement, almost any transplant of the
human body can be performed. Owing to the technological medical changes,
prominent and renowned jurists of the world have carefully analysed the
process of organ transplant and upon investigation made the following
observations:
1. When any person’s limb or organ becomes unusable and that limb or organ
is needed to function in the future by a suitable replacement then the
following conditions must be considered.

Use of a non-living component.

Use the limb of those animals permissible to eat and slaughtered according
to the Islamic rites of slaughter.

There is almost certain fear of loss of life or danger of losing the
limb/organ and the replacement is only found in Haraam animals or in
permissible animals (which can be eaten) but not slaughtered according to
Islamic rites, then use of such a component will be permissible. However, if
there is no imminent danger of loss of life then it will not be permissible
to use anything from the pig.
2. Similarly, a transplant of any nature whatsoever is permissible from one
part to another part of the body of the same person when necessary.
3. The sale of any part of the human body is Haraam.
4. If any ill person reaches a stage that a specific organ becomes unusable
(to such an extent) that if a human organ is not replaced into the body then
there is an immediate danger of loss of life — the human organ is the only
suitable replacement and medical experts are absolutely certain that besides
the human organ, there is no other life-saving substitute and the patients’
life is in danger, and the human organ is easily available to the patient,
then in that dire need a human organ transplant (to save one’s life) will be
permissible for the sick.
5. When a perfectly healthy person on the advice of an expert physician
confirms that the removal of one kidney will not harm nor cause ill-health
whatsoever and considering the deteriorating health of his sick immediate
family member which may cause death and there is no other alternate or
substitute then this will be permissible with the condition that the kidney
be donated and not sold.
The bequest (Wasiyyat) of a person that after his death, his organs be
donated is forbidden in Shariah.

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