среда, 25 марта 2015 г.

Ruling on a doctor who misses the prayer because he is busy with surgery

FIQH OF MEDICINE 

Question:
There are doctors who do emergency surgeries, which sometimes means that he is sometimes too busy to pray until the time of the prayer ends. What should he do?

Elaboration:
Predicting the duration of a surgical case is a bit like predicting the duration of a sports competition. For example, although you might know the average duration of a professional basketball game, it is impossible to know, to the minute, how long the next game will last. And just like a basketball game that is tied after 48 minutes, a surgical case can go into overtime if unexpected findings force a change in the surgical procedure that requires extra time. Moreover it can happen at any time especially in emergency cases. One would find it hard to perform his daily prayers if he is in the middle of a brain surgery.


Answer:
What a Muslim is obliged to do is to offer the prayer on time and not let himself be distracted from it by anything, unless it is something urgent that he cannot do anything about, such as saving a person from drowning or rescuing people from a burning house, or warding off the attack of an enemy that is feared. In such cases there is nothing wrong with delaying the prayer for that reason, even if the time for the prayer ends. But with regard to ordinary matters in which no danger is involved, it is not permissible to delay the prayer because of them.
It is proven that the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him), when the people of Makkah besieged Madeenah on the day of al-Ahzaab, delayed Zuhr and ‘Asr prayer until after Maghrib. According to another report, he delayed ‘Asr prayer until after Maghrib, because he was preoccupied with fighting. It is also proven that when the Sahaabah besieged Tastar, dawn came when the fighting was still going on and the people were scaling the walls and were at the gates of the city, and they delayed Fajr prayer until conquest was granted to them, then they prayed at the time of duha (forenoon) so that they would not miss out on the opportunity to conquer the city. In such situations it is permissible to delay the prayer. If there is a fire in which Muslim people are trapped, it is permissible to focus on rescuing them, even if that means that you will miss offering a prayer on time, because saving Muslim lives which are protected by sharee’ah is very important, and because it may not be possible to deal with this danger except by delaying the prayer; the prayer is being missed for a valid reason, so it is permissible to delay it.
A person may also delay the prayer and join prayers because of sickness and travelling, so it is permissible to delay prayers until after their time or to delay ‘Asr or Fajr prayers from their times in order to save one who is drowning or burning and so on. End quote.
Shaykh ‘Abd al-‘Azeez ibn Baaz (may Allah have mercy on him)

Allah knows best.

среда, 18 марта 2015 г.

Fiqh of Medicine #1


Fiqh of Medicine

"Is it Permissible to donate bone marrow

Question:
I would like to donate bone marrow to patients who are suffering from leukaemia but I want to make sure that it is halal (permissible in Islam). 

Elaboration:
There are two ways of helping leukaemia patients, either through a surgical bone marrow donation or by donating peripheral blood stem cells through a non-surgical procedure, called PBSC. 
Donating bone marrow is a surgical procedure done under general or regional anesthesia in a hospital. While a donor receives anesthesia, doctors use needles to withdraw liquid marrow from the back of the pelvic bone.
 



PBSC donation is a non-surgical procedure done in an outpatient clinic. PBSC donors receive daily injections of a drug called filgrastim for five days, to increase the number of blood-forming cells in the bloodstream. Then, through a process called apheresis, a donor’s blood is removed through a needle in one arm and passed through a machine that separates out the blood-forming cells. The remaining blood is returned to the donor through the other arm. 
Are both procedures “islamically” allowed? Which procedure is preferred?

Answer:
Praise be to Allah. 
One will be rewarded for donating if his intention is sincerely for the sake of Allah and he intends to do good to the person to whom it is donated, whether he is Muslim or non-Muslim, on condition that he is not a harbi (a non-Muslim in a state of war against Islam), because there is nothing wrong with showing kindness to someone who is at peace with the Muslims. Allah says (interpretation of the meaning):
“Allah does not forbid you to deal justly and kindly with those who fought not against you on account of religion nor drove you out of your homes. Verily, Allah loves those who deal with equity”
[al-Mumtahanah 60:8]

The scholars of the Standing Committee for Issuing Fatwas were asked: 
“Is it permissible to transfer blood from one person to another even if they are of different religions?” 

They replied: If a person is sick or is very weak and there is no way to treat him or help him except by transferring blood to him from someone else, and that is a way to save him, and the experts think it most likely that it will benefit him, there is nothing wrong with treating him by transferring blood from someone else to him, even if they are of different religions. So blood may be transferred from a non-Muslim, even if he is a harbi, to a Muslim and from a Muslim to a non-Muslim who is not a harbi. But in the case of a harbi, he is not under the protection of sharee‘ah and it is not permissible to help him. End quote. 
Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah, 25/66 (edited)
With regard to questions about the two methods described of extracting marrow and separating it, it seems that there is nothing wrong with either of them. Determining which of them is better should be left to specialist doctors and the method which is easiest and least risky for the donor should be chosen. 


And Allah knows best.


среда, 11 марта 2015 г.

Ikan oh ikan!

Ikan oh ikan!

Ruginye tak makang ikang.. :P

           
Eee…. Busuknye.. Tak suka makan, bau melekat. Susah nak siang ikan. Leceh masak, hancur isi. Tak pandai pilih. Balik Malaysia karang boleh makan, tunggu mak masakkan… Sampai bila nak bagi alasan nih? :P
Ternyata ramai dalam kalangan kita yang masih terkial-kial lagi menyiang ikan, malahan ada yang sanggup mengelakkan diri dari menjamah protein laut ini. Kat Okei tu, kalau tak ada ‘цена по карте’ pada salmon, memang 3m jauh dari kawasan ikan. Hehehe…
Makanya, nak share la sedikit sebanyak ilmu ni (orang laut moden).

Nutrisi ikan


·         Omega 3 (membantu menstabilkan sistem jantung)
·         Mengandung serat protein yang pendek sehingga mudah di cerna
·         Kaya akan amino acid seperti taurin untuk merangsang pertumbuhan sel otak.
·         Vitamin A
·         Vitamin D dalam daging dan minyak hati ikan untuk pertumbuhan dan kekuatan tulang
·         Vitamin B6 untuk membantu metabolisme amino acid dan lemak
·         Vitamin B12 untuk pembentukan sel darah merah, membantu metabolisme lemak, dan melindungi jantung
·         Zat besi yang mudah diserap oleh tubuh
·         Sodium
·         Selenium untuk membantu metabolisme tubuh dan sebagai anti oksidan
·         Zink yang membantu kerja enzim dan hormon
·         Fluorine yang berperan dalam menguatkan gigi





Cara masak ikan

Ianya bergantung dengan jenis ikan. Bukan main campak je. Nasihat saya, research dulu before masak, jangan main beli je.



Горбуша- pink salmon
Треска- cod
Судак – pike perch
Атлантическая сельдь - herring
Скумбрия – ikan kembung (mackerel)
Окунь – perch
Кета- dog salmon
Сардины – sardine
Лосось – salmon
Осётр - sturgeon
Минтай - pollack
Толстолобик - carp




Cara siang ikan!




Berikut merupakan langkah menyiang ikan. Sekali lagi diingatkan, tak semua jenis ikan  boleh disiang menggunakan cara ini (tapi untuk majoriti jenis ikan, boleh je)! Selamat mencuba!!







Petua ringkas masak ikan sempurna

1.    Nak garing dan tak melekat pada kuali.
·         Senang je, masa menggoreng, bubuhkan sekali sekeping asam gelugur!
·         Alternatif lain adalah dengan memastikan minyak menggoreng tidak terlalu panas dan tidak juga terlalu sejuk.
·         Ataupun, salutkan dengan tepung gandum dan sedikit tepung jagung.

2.    Buang hanyir ikan
·         Rendam ikan dengan perahan limau/ lemon/ air asam
·         Salut dengan serbuk kunyit + garam + sedikit serbuk bawang putih
·         Elakkan merendam ikan terlalu lama dalam air sebelum masak

3.    Meningkatkan kelazatan ikan beku
·         Rendam ikan dalam susu segar selama 10-15 minit.. J

4.    Ikan masin hancur?
·         Taburkan sedikit tepung gandum di atas ikan sebelum menggoreng
·         Elakkan dari membalikkan ikan terlalu cepat. Biar seketika.
·         Guna api sederhana dan kuali non stick J

5.    Ikan tahan lama
·         Cuma simpan beku ikan setelah airnya ditus keluar.

6.    Kukus ikan, kuah hanyir?
·         Untuk 5 minit yang pertama proses mengukus, buang air kukusan terlebih dahulu.
·         Sentiasa memasukkan perahan limau/lemon/asam dalam bahan perapan anda