Ilham Shaheen's statements continue to provoke controversy...and Hassan Youssef: She will be held accountable for her intention
The artist, Elham Shaheen, sparked widespread controversy during the past two days, after she launched an organ donation initiative after the death of its owner, as she announced that she would donate her organs after her death, instead of leaving them "to be eaten by worms", she said, which was approved by some, while Others criticized this initiative.
Commenting on the matter, the artist Hassan Youssef said, “Everyone has his point of view, and this is his personal opinion, which must be respected, but the first and last opinion in this initiative is the opinion of Al-Shara’, continuing: “I cannot say anything about this initiative, before asking Dar Al Iftaa. First".
The artist, Hassan Youssef, added, in statements to Al-Watan newspaper, "The artist Elham Shaheen will be held accountable for her good intentions, because she will serve the person to whom she will donate her organs."
The artist, Hassan Youssef, spoke in his speech to a friend of his residing in “London”, who needed a liver transplant, until he reached a donor other than his religion, and that he underwent the operation and obtained part of the liver, saying: “I had a committed Muslim friend in London, and he was He needs a liver and took it from a non-Muslim person at the time, and I think that this is permissible in religion, otherwise my friend would never do it.”
The artist, Ilham Shaheen, had called for the establishment of a bank for human organs in Egypt, similar to the cornea bank that existed during the days of the late President Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat, adding, “I recommended my family to donate my organs after my death. ».
The statements of the artist Ilham Shaheen still raise widespread controversy in the artistic community and through various social networking sites, and these statements raised many reservations, and the reactions were divided between supporters and opponents among the public over this decision.
Elham Shaheen called on her audience to donate body organs after death to benefit others, asking the state to have a box with the national number indicating the person's consent before death to donate even if the parents refused, noting that she recommended her family to this matter and continued... ».
Ilham Shaheen confirmed, "I announce my donation of the organs of my healthy body after my death to the needy heart, liver, kidney, cornea, or lung, in order to benefit others, and at the same time these organs and the body will perish after death and end up in the dirt."
And Ilham Shaheen continued: I invite you to donate your organs in order to relieve the pain of others and do more good, adding: By the way, before I say these words, I asked elders if this is halal, and this is very halal, and they personally donate their organs as they are after their death.
Sheikh Abdel Aziz Al-Najjar, one of the scholars of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, said in press statements that some organs of the body cannot be donated at all, in the event that the donor is still alive.
Dr. Jamal Shaaban, the former director of the Heart Institute, also said that it is not possible to donate all the organs of the human body after death, because there are organs in the body that are damaged after the death of a person and become unfit for donation.
While the heart can be donated, but the operations of transferring it from one body and transplanting it into another body are not done in Egypt, so a person here cannot donate it after his death
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