Is it permissible for a Muslim to withhold prophetic narrations such as that of flies’ wings containing both the disease and its respective antidote? The context is that of him in a university in a non-Muslim country where if a non-Muslim,senior to him,were to investigate and discover the truth of what the prophet said he’d get all the benefit and may patent the antidotes.Muslim would be left out.
Is it permissible for a Muslim to withhold prophetic narrations such as that of flies’ wings containing both the disease and its respective antidote? The context is that of him in a university in a non-Muslim country where if a non-Muslim,senior to him,were to investigate and discover the truth of what the prophet said he’d get all the benefit and may patent the antidotes.Muslim would be left out.
12Dec
ANSWER:
This is not permissible as it is holding back Islamic knowledge for worldly gains.
Is it permissible for a Muslim to withhold prophetic narrations such as that of flies’ wings containing both the disease and its respective antidote? The context is that of him in a university in a non-Muslim country where if a non-Muslim,senior to him,were to investigate and discover the truth of what the prophet said he’d get all the benefit and may patent the antidotes.Muslim would be left out.