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Euthanasia And Keeping One Alive On Life Support
Assalamu Alaikum
Taking life, either of oneself or someone else’s is haram. Same with euthanasia (active dead help) becomes haram. But according to Ghamidi sahab, it seems like passive help to die is ok:
https://youtu.be/i6JNPy7XK5Y?si=TNHBX3pgHvr6UNPG
but like it sounds the same thing. We haven’t found a remedy to some disease then we can’t do anything and the person is gonna die. But today we have found that somehow we can keep the person alive using life support, why isn’t it haram too?
2) Above was an answer based on a religious principle, but on a legal secular level, how can it be said that active dead help is ethically wrong?
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Euthanasia And Keeping One Alive On Life Support
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It is not haram to keep a person in a hopeless situation alive with life support equipment, Ghamidi saheb means that it is not necessary or obligatory to keep one alive in this way, and taking off the life support is not equal to killing him.
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What i have understood from this is that a person is gonna die anyway and to make that person, kinda, dependent on some machine to keep him alive for a few more days, sounds logical.
Now, actively/with the help of some doctor, taking a life of oneself. If a muslim is in immense pain and can’t bear it any more and according to the doctors death is easier than living in that pain, so can a person/muslim get an exemption from the Islamic law in that extreme case?
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Because for muslims to not to take the life of other and even of oneselves, but Allah doesn’t burden a soul more than it can bear. So under that principal i was asking if an exception could be given?
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This amounts to killing. Which is not allowed. As long as one can stay alive on his own, he or she cannot be killed
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Yes, for sure. But Allah doesn’t burden a soul more than it can bear. So based on this principle, why an exception can’t be given?
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The verse you alluded to, is about the Shariah, that Allah does not ordain to do something beyond one’s capacity. This has nothing to do with this case. We have no yardstick to measure what capacity one has to bear the pain.
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