Medication

Q: I would like to ask you about prophetic medicines, like there are some ahaadith which clearly shows the confirmed results of prophetic medicines as below but sometimes it doesn't work, why? Where is the problem?

Ibn ‘Abbaas (radhiyallahu anhuma) reported that Nabi (sallallahu alaihi wasallam) said: “Healing is to be found in three things: drinking honey, the knife of the cupper, and cauterization of fire.” (Reported by al-Bukhaari, 10/136).

Abu Hurayrah (radhiyallahu anhu) reported that Nabi (sallallahu alaihi wasallam) said: “Whoever is treated with cupping on the seventeenth, nineteenth or twenty first, will be healed from all diseases.” (Reported by Abu Dawood, 3861, and al-Bayhaqi, 9/340. The isnad is hasan).

Al-Bukhaari (5688) and Muslim (2215) narrated from Abu Hurayrah (radhiyallahu anhu) that he heard the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alaihi wasallam) say concerning the black seed: “In it there is healing for every disease, except as-saam.” Ibn Shihaab said: As-saam is death.

Q: Is it permissible to use or prescribe sleeping pills? After using them, sometimes one is not in his conplete sense and sometimes says what will not usually say in public? Would Namaz be valid in this state? Can it be used if one is unable to sleep? Or can it be used sometimes when one wants to releive himself of worries?

Q: Could you please assist and advise if the following is permissible? In Homeopathy, there exists a therapy called Auto Sanguines therapy. This involves taking some of a person's blood and creating a medicine with it, which is taken orally. Is this permissible?

The definition of Auto Sanguine is: In Auto-sanguis dilution therapy, small doses of the patient’s blood are prepared as a homeopathic remedy. The effectiveness of this therapy is rooted in the homeopathic principle that small doses of a substance reverse symptoms caused by large doses of the same substance. People who suffer form an autoimmune disease have elevated levels of pro-inflammatory agents, antibodies, and circulating immune complexes in their bloodstream, all of which are involved in the abnormal immune response. A homeopathic mixture containing minute traces of these substances can reduce or even completely eliminate the autoimmune response. Autosanguis therapy simply means using blood from a patient as a medicine to treat a condition that that patient is suffering from.

Q: Is it permissible to use medicine which is derived from humans? Like injecting something to stimulate certain cells/proteins and then getting from them? Perhaps it is not transplant which is prohibited.

(My mother had a fracture on her leg bone and it has not healed over 7 months so doctors are planning another surgery to fix it and will put bone formation stimulating drug at the site of fracture most likely derived from humans).

Q: I am going for Umrah on 1 April 2018 with my husband and son. My gynecologist has prescribed utrogesan capsules to delay my period. It contains gelatine. Am I allowed to use it or should I get alternate medication?

Q: Please provide me with a fatawaa regarding whether gelatine is permissible to use, whether from Halaal and non-Halaal slaughtered animals. Please explain the ruling regarding gelatine of swine as well.

Q: Is the use of capsules whose shell is made up of gelatine from pork or cow permissible, both to use ourselves or to prescribe for our patients?

Q: Is it permitted for a Hanafi Muslim to consume tonic manufactured containing alcohol by pharma cos.

Q: Without a doctors prescription, is it haraam to consume vitamin tablets?