According to Islam, whatever leads to welfare of the individual or society is morally good and whatever is injurious is morally bad. The ethical system prescribed in Islam is eternally divine and forms the foundation of an Islamic society. Islamic ethics prescribed its followers to observe certain norms and moral codes in their family affairs; in dealings with relatives, neighbors, and friends; in their business transactions; in their social affairs; and in private and public life.

1. The Islamic Ethical View
Name : Bipu Patowari
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2. What is Ethics ?
• Ethics is a system of moral principles.
• They affect how people make decisions
and lead their lives.
• Concepts of ethics have been derived
from religions, philosophies and
cultures.

3. What is Islam ?
• Islam is the name of religion that Muslims follow.
• The literal and lexical meaning of Islam means submission.
• People who practice Islam are called Muslims.

4. What is Islamic Ethical view ?
• According to Islam, whatever leads to welfare of the
individual or society is morally good and whatever is
injurious is morally bad. The ethical system prescribed in
Islam is eternally divine and forms the foundation of an
Islamic society.
• Islamic ethics prescribed its followers to observe certain
norms and moral codes in their family affairs; in dealings
with relatives, neighbors, and friends; in their business
transactions; in their social affairs; and in private and public
life.

5. What is Euthanasia ?
Euthanasia is the practice of intentionally ending a life to relieve
pain and suffering.
Euthanasia nowadays classified into three types, according to
whether a person gives informed consent:
• voluntary
• non-voluntary
• involuntary

6. Types of Euthanaisa
• Voluntary: When euthanasia is conducted with consent.
• Non-voluntary: When euthanasia is conducted on a person
who is unable to consent due to their current health
condition. In this scenario the decision is made by another
appropriate person, on behalf of the patient, based on their
quality of life and suffering.
• Involuntary: When euthanasia is performed on a person
who would be able to provide informed consent, but does
not, either because they do not want to die. This is called
murder, as it’s often against the patients will.
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7. Euthanasia in Islamic Ethical perspective
• The body that God gives an individual is not a personal
possession. No one is free to dispose of their body as they
wish because it is a trust for which they will be held
accountable by the Creator (Glory to Him) on the Day of
Judgment.
• In the Quran, God says:
And do not throw yourselves to destruction and be good for
God loves the good ones (2:195).
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8. Euthanasia in Islamic Ethical perspective
A patient who asks his physician to end his life in one way or
another is considered committing suicide (may God protect us).
In their collections of authentic hadiths, al-Bukhari and Muslim
related through Abu Hurayrah that the Messenger of God said:
Whoever hurls himself off a mountain and kills himself will be
[repeatedly] hurled into the flames of Hellfire, where he will
abide eternally. Whoever drinks poison and kills himself, will be
in the Hellfire eternally; his poison will be in his hand and he
will drink from it. Whoever kills himself with an iron blade, the
blade will be in his hands and he will stab himself in the
stomach in Hellfire eternally (al-Bukhari).
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9. Euthanasia in Islamic Ethical perspective
• Whoever kills a believer deliberately, the punishment for him
is hell, and there he will remain: God is angry with him, and
rejects him, and has prepared a tremendous torment for him
(Quran 4:93).
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10. Conclusion
Based on Islamic perspective euthanasia is not permissible. It is
considered a major sin, as attested in a mass of Prophetic
reports. It is incumbent upon physicians to know that there is
no obedience to other people in a matter that constitutes a
disobedience to God. Whenever a patient asks this of them, they
must not accede, nor kill another person without right.
Allah the Almighty knows best.
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