Ah come on guys cut me some slack. :P
The UK fatwa that said organ donation was ok was made by Imams, so was guidance for Islamics. You say they are for people who are not knowledgeable, but then why do fatwas disagree on organ donation? Anyway, surely your view of fatwa adherence would depend on your branch of Islamic belief (for example; don't Sunni and Shia approach fatwas differently?) .
Imams don't listen to fatwas, ordinary Muslims however, do.
Are you saying now that Islamics should not receive heart transplants??? How can anyone justify that! If you abstain from action, are you not sinning by not aiding the saving of another person's life by letting them use an organ or two from your dead body?
In cases of necessity, such transplant is allowed.
It seems the matter is unclear to you, since: 1. you said you wanted to be buried in tact. 2. You said you didn't know about any Islamic law objecting to organ donation, despite your research. 3. You said people could interpret the Islamic law on violation either way. 4. You now seem to say that heart transplants are bad but kidney transplants are ok. ( ? Explain please! )
1. My personal opinion, even then it doesn't matter since I'm dead. 2. I did some research after reading a few posts of yours on this topic. 3. Violating Islamic Law? I'd never...:lol: 4. Those were EXAMPLES. Understand? Organ donations like heart transplants (aka anything that endangers the donor's life) are forbidden while the donor is still alive.
From my studies of the Quran and Islam, I can tell you my findings about it evidence a wide variety of often contradictory views, based on a book that offers some rather bipolar verses and plenty of room for interpretation. In my world, there are a wide variety of different Muslims with similar divides - just as the Christian faith has. I've heard proud Islamics trumpeting about their scientific and medical innovation, along side your new view about forbidding heart transplants...
Show me such bipolar verses.
Why wouldn't non-Muslims want inclusion into Muslim affairs in a secular society, where we all have to live under one human law? What I meant by number 5 is that you contrasted your own "correct" Islamic views with bad ones held in another country. What country would represent your preferred Islamic state then? I'm not sure you've explained what you think yet: about the little room for opinion in the Quran's verses about donations and life saving surgery, then how and why you've interpreted your own views from the many fatwa on the issue, from the many sides of Islam there are.
My views may not be correct at all. I just gave you an example. I guess Indonesia, Lebanon, and Syria (again they aren't perfect either) are the closest in my views.
There is only one true side of Islam and that is Sunni Islam.
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