The Nature of Medical Practice and its Legality in Islamic Jurisprudence

Abstract

The study addressed the subject of the controls of the legitimacy of medical work and the evidence of its legitimacy and its ruling from the perspective of Islamic law, as the study combined the statements of previous jurists from the imams of the four schools of thought and contemporary jurists, as the study concluded that medical work is legitimate and permissible and there is no disagreement among jurists on this, except that they stipulated that whoever practices the profession of medical work must be knowledgeable about the principles and scientific rules of the medical profession; because medical work is based on four elements: the place of work represented by the human body, the person performing the work who is the specialist doctor and knowledgeable about the patient's condition, the method of performing the work represented by the conformity of the principles and scientific rules known among the people of medicine, and the considered goal of medical work which is represented in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases .