Egyptian Fatwa: Transplanting a pig's kidney to a human is forbidden by law... and American doctors are sinful!

A member of the main Fatwa Committee at Al-Azhar, Dr. Attia Lashin, said that what doctors in the United States did of removing a pig’s kidney and implanting it inside a human’s body “is not permissible according to Islamic law, and he is a sinner.”


Attia Lashin, a professor of jurisprudence at Al-Azhar University and a member of the main Fatwa Committee at Al-Azhar, added, in statements to Cairo 24, that "Whoever brings a pig, whether it is meat or one of his body organs, is a sinner."

Lashin explained that a Muslim should not violate the command of God, and pigs remain forbidden until the Hour of Judgment.

The professor of jurisprudence emphasized, “God creates the disease, and creates with it the medicine, and a person will not need to transplant a kidney from a forbidden animal until the recovery is identical,” citing the hadith of the Prophet Muhammad: “God did not create a disease or did not create a disease except that He sent down or created a medicine for it. His knowledge is from his knowledge, and his ignorance is from his ignorance, except for Sam.” They said: O Messenger of God: What is Sam?

He said: "Death."

And the British newspaper, The Guardian, reported earlier that a group of American doctors had succeeded in transplanting a pig’s kidneys into a human body, as they tied the kidney and monitored it well during the beginning of work, noting that it is a small step in the decades-long quest to use animal organs in operations. A life-saving transplant.

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