Share | Can a person who has a large nose and a bit of deformities have an opperation in order to look presentable?. Praise be to Allaah. Guidelines on cosmetic surgery: if it is for the purpose of beautification and to increase beauty, then it is haraam, but if it is to remove a fault […]

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Share | In the hospital we use medicine for post-operative pain and other kinds of pain that contain narcotic substances and other medicines that contain varying amounts of alcohol. Is there anything wrong with using them?. Praise be to Allaah. There is nothing wrong with medicines which give a patient relief and reduce his pain […]

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is almost in front of it..there is a permanent mark on my tongue of the tooth (that is supposed to be in front), coz it has been pushed back.. this does cause my to be very conscious when i smile but also i have a problem cleaning the tooth.i literally have to turn my brush […]

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Share | I have a large gap between my two front teeth and I want to close this gap (there is only one gap). Is this permissible or not?. Praise be to Allaah. The basic principle with regard to cosmetic procedures that are done to remove a fault or deformity are that they are permissible, […]

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If it is a defect, it is permissible. But if one has a normal one yet he wants it to be bigger, this is not permissible.

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If a person was dying from a terminal illness, and treatment offered was unlikely to benefit (although a remote possiblity that it could help), does the person have to take the treatment? As the treatment has many bad side-effects, and the person may not want to suffer them? In general, does have a muslim have […]

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What is hijaamah (cupping) and how do you perform it?. Praise be to Allaah. The word hijaamah (cupping) comes for the word hajm which means sucking, as in the phrase hajama al-sabiy thadya ummihi (the infant suckled his mother’s breast). Al-Hajjaam means the cupper, hijaamah is the profession of cupping, and the word mihjam is […]

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The vaccinations or immunisations that are given to children are a questionable matter. The prevalent theory says that once you give the child a small amount of the virus that causes a certain disease – which is known as immunisation or vaccination – he then develops immunity against that disease of the rest of his […]

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