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Praise be to Allah.The production of medicines

from non-animal sources may be of two types:

1.Where they are made from permissible materials, so they are permissible,

such as making them from permissible herbs.

2.Where they are made from materials which are haraam (forbidden)

or naajis (impure), so the medicine is haraam according to the consensus

of the fuqahaa’, because the Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Allaah does not put

your cure in that which He has forbidden to you.” (narrated by al-Bukhaari

in a mu’allaq report; al-Fath, vol. 1, p. 78)

See al-Mawsoo’ah al-Fiqhiyyah,

vol. 11, p. 118

If the medicine is made

from animal sources, it may be one of three types:

1.If it comes from an animal whose meat may be eaten and it has

been slaughtered correctly, then it is permissible to use it as medicine.

2.If it comes from an animal whose meat may be eaten but it has

not been slaughtered correctly, then it is not permissible to use it

for medicine, because it is haraam. The Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Allaah does not put

your cure in that which He has forbidden to you.” (Narrated by al-Bukhaari

in his Saheeh, in a mu’allaq report from Ibn Mas’ood (may

Allaah be pleased with him), in Kitaab al-Ashribah).

3.If it comes from an animal whose meat cannot be eaten, then it

is not permissible to use it as medicine, for the reasons stated above.

This includes pork.

Ibn Qudaamah (may Allaah

have mercy on him) said: “Section: it is not permissible to treat disease

with haraam things, or anything that contains haraam things, such as

the milk of female donkeys, or the meat of something that is haraam,

or to drink wine in order to treat disease, because the Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: ‘Allaah does not put

the cure for my ummah in that which He has forbidden to them.’ And the

Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said, when he was told about

nabeedh (date wine) that was used for medicinal purposes, ‘It

is not a cure, it is a disease.’” (al-Mughni, vol. 9, p. 338)

Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah

(may Allaah have mercy on him) said in al-Fataawa al-Kubra

(vol. 3, p. 6): “Question: is it permissible to treat disease with alcohol?

The answer:

Treating disease with alcohol

is haraam, as stated by the Messenger of Allaah

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). This is the view of the

vast majority of scholars. It was narrated in al-Saheeh that

he was asked about alcohol that was made for medicinal purposes, and

he said: ‘It is a disease, it is not a cure.’ And in al-Sunan

it is narrated that he said: ‘It is forbidden to treat disease with

khabeeth (evil) things.’ Ibn Mas’ood said: ‘Allaah does not put your

cure in that which He has forbidden to you.’ Ibn Hibbaan narrated in

his Saheeh that the Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: ‘Allaah does not put

the cure for my ummah in that which He has forbidden to them.’ In al-Sunan

it is narrated that he was asked about frogs which were used for medicinal

purposes. He forbade killing them, and said, ‘Their croaking is tasbeeh

(glorification of Allaah).’

This is not like eating

dead meat out of necessity, for that achieves the purpose of keeping

the person alive when he has no alternative; eating it in this case

is obligatory, and if a person is forced by necessity to eat dead meat,

but he does not eat it and dies as a result, he will go to Hell. But

in the case of treating disease, the cure is not certain and this is

not the only medicine which one may take, rather Allaah may bring about

a person's recovery through a variety of means. Treating disease is

not obligatory according to the majority of scholars, so there is no

analogy in this case. And Allaah knows best.

Based on the above, the

answer to the second question is as follows:

2 – it is not permissible

for a doctor to use haraam medications in treating disease.

And Allaah knows best.