Islamic Revival

Question: (a) People donate blood to blood banks for free, for reasons that are well known. The blood banks carry out checks on this blood and if it is found to be safe, it is then used on other patients. But if the blood is found to be contaminated or if it has any type if virus such as Hepatitis or AIDS for instance, then the blood is disposed off. Now we require this contaminated blood for our laboratory to carry out investigations. Is it permissible for us to obtain this blood from blood banks free of charge and carry out tests on it, and then safely dispose of the remaining quantity of blood without causing any harm to anyone or the environment? (b) In some cases, we purify the virus-contaminated blood of the virus during the investigation process which is complex and expensive and we are able to isolate the virus which is then used in our laboratory to develop scientific research and manufacture reagents. We then sell the other portions to different laboratories, and if we are un

This talk was given by Ustadh ibn Kemaludeen al-Hanafi . He studied for 2 years in al-Azhar university – Egypt, before returning to the UK where he is currently completing his Doctoral Research on Islamic Philosophy, including the verification and transcription of original manuscripts of Sheikh Muhaasibi. He holds numerous ijaazaat in various Islamic studies. Has translated and verified numerous contemporary ahadith collections. Lectures in university on the science of ahadith, and Islamic modernism, and is also teacher of Hanafi fiqh. To read more about this topic see: Chapter2 - Al-Hakim (The Judge) and Who is al-Hakim (The Legislator)?

Correcting the mistake of those who claim there is no Islamic State It was not enough that America enslaved the Egyptian people for over sixty years, paying their rulers to do their bidding, supporting the occupation in Palestine and even to fight against Islam, nor was it enough to enslave the once mighty al-Azhar university so that its leaders would issue judgements in favour of American foreign policy in the Middle East. America now even wants all of the Muslims of the world to reject Islam, to stop asking Allah for help and instead call upon them, the secular United States, for the ease. How sad it is, that some American Muslims, who once rejected kufr in favour of Islam, now make it their main reference point and invite other Muslims to the inhumane and backward kufr ideology that is American capitalism. How can Muslims call upon America to lend a helping hand to the Egyptian people? America are the very support of Hosni Mubrak’s and his source of power. They didn’