Organ Donation

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I was talking to Gina yesterday and she was really upset at how her mom is sick and she can not have a kidney transplant and it got me thinking that so many people in this world can get a transplant but can not find a match. I have always been interested in organ donation but i’ve heard mixed opinions on this from an islamic point of view. Some poeple say its allowed and some say its not. So my question again is if organ donation is allowed or not … i kno for a fact that blood donation is

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Libby, she's not the perfect candidate for one because she's been a diabetic for the past 29 years plus other complications. We all are and have been tested for donation, I am the closest match Alhamdulilah and as soon as her antibodies are upto mark we will get her transplanted Inshallah.

I have asked around, and majority of the people that I've asked have said the same thing. If it's to ease someone's suffering and pain and doesn't affect your own health it's allowed.

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alrite gina .... thats awesome ... i kno the problem u talked about ... but i'm just askin in general ... i kno three things for sure that u can donate and thats heart, eyes and kidneys ... i don't kno watever else is donateable ... i donate blood every few months and every time i go there they ask me if i wanna sign up for organ donation and i usually say no but i want to kno if its permissible in islam then why not ... the only reason why i haven't signed up for it until now was because i wasn't sure if it is permissible ...

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Kidney donations are allowed. You have two for a reason. You only need one kidney to get by anyway. A few people in my family have only the one kidney and 3 people in my family have had 3 very successful kidney transplants.

I would only look into it if you are serious about it though. Lots of people I know think they want to donate one of their kidneys but then don;t go through with it and trust me...that hurts like you wouldnt want to know.

Kidney donation isn't easy either, theres a lot more involved than just getting the right match. A close family relative was refused transplant of a perfect kidney as her white blood cells were too high.

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i kno kidney donation is alot of pain and i'm not sure if i'd go under the knife for someone outside of my family ... but u kno how you go on the donor list that in case u pass away ur organs can be donated to other people such as heart and eyes and u can sign up for watever u want to stay with in u and wat u wanna give ... thats wat i'm talkin about ... especially the heart

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This is not islamically relevant, but a lot of people don't sign the organ donor thing behind their drivers license because there's this myth that doctors have certain legal powers to people in vegetative states when they're organ donors. I'm not sure how much of it is true so I should research it more.

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I'm waiting for my haemoglobin to rise, and Ami's antibodies sorted Inshallah. We've been very keen but she's always had some complication or the other..

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in vegetative state No, but if you are brain dead it depends in the country and state.

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my dad had kidney transplant 8/9 years ago, his sister kidney was the closest match it's like 1 to 10 scale. He is Alhumdollilah fine, normally a healthy kidney goes 10 to 15 years !

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so is it allowed in islam to donate organs after you have passed away ... or is it not allowed

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The bequest (Wasiyyat) of a person that after his death, his organs be donated is forbidden in Shariah.

A. Human Organ: An Amanah
As discussed in chapter ix, there are Muslim jurists who regard the human
body (including its parts) as an amaanah (trust). Therefore, since a human
being does not own his body, he/she cannot make a gift in respect of any
part of his/her body either during his/her lifetime or after death. Thus to
include organ donation in one's will would not be in order since one cannot
give away that which one does not legally own.

B. Human Organ: Invaluable
The testator's estate is termed in Arabic as mal mutaqawwam (asset upon
which a price can be set for it). Muslim jurists are of the opinion that a
human being's person (organs included) is mal ghayr mutaqawwam (invaluable
i.e. no price can be set for it). (Tanzil-ur-Rahmaan. A Code of Muslim
Personal Law. North Nazimabad, Karachi. Islamic Publishers. 1980, vol. 2 p.
330). Thus it logically follows that since no price can be set for human
organ, the inclusion of its donation into one's will would be regarded as
null and void.

*From the book, 'Organ Transplantation - Contemporary Islamic Legal and
Thical Perspectives', Abul Fadl Mohsin Ebrahim.
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and Allah Ta'ala Knows Best

Mufti Ebrahim Desai

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And for the opposite opinion fatwa, opining that organ donation is halal…

http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503543788

Sheikh Ahmad Kutty, a senior lecturer and an Islamic scholar at the Islamic Institute of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, issues the following Fatwa:

"Organ donation is permitted in Islam if it is done within the permissible limits prescribed by the Shari`ah.

The following are the conditions scholars have stipulated for donation:

Conditions associated with a living donor:

  1. He/she must be a person who is in full possession of his/her faculties so that he/she is able to make a sound decision by himself/herself;

  2. He/she must be an adult and, preferably, at least twenty-one years old;

  3. It should be done on his/her own free will without any external pressure exerted on him/ her;

  4. The organ he/she is donating must not be a vital organ on which his/her survival or sound health is dependent upon;

  5. No transplantation of sexual organs is allowed.

Conditions associated with deceased donors:

  1. It must be done after having ascertained the free consent of the donor prior to his /her death. It can be through a will to that effect, or signing the donor card, etc.

  2. In a case where organ donation consent was not given prior to a donor’s death, the consent may be granted by the deceased’s closest relatives who are in a position to make such decisions on his/her behalf.

  3. It must be an organ or tissue that is medically determined to be able to save the life or maintain the quality of life of another human being.

  4. The organ must be removed only from the deceased person after the death has been ascertained through reliable medical procedures.

  5. Organs can also be harvested from the victims of traffic accidents if their identities are unknown, but it must be done only following the valid decree of a judge."

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Same issue with my family member too. Whenever they found a perfect match, something to do with antibodies always went wrong. It was awful having to rush into hospital, sit for hours and then to find out ’ no, we can’t save your life today, go home.’

I got tested out too, but being too closely related and it being a genetic illness, doctors said I wasnt allowed.

If I knew back when I was 16 that I could have donated my kidney to my mum, I would have fought to save her life.

Very best wishes to you and your mum’s kidney issues. I know of the waiting game and its not nice. :hug:

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See CP if we go by this opinion ... then isn't it also then wrong to accept organ donation .... cuz that way you are rejecting your own organ which was an ammanah and getting one from someone else ... or at least thats wat i think ... i honest don't kno how people can be ok accepting organ and there is no shariah law against that but whn it comes to donating everyone has an issue ... that sounds just a bit hypocritical to me