InshaAllah im planning on becoming a doctor but require some advice regarding a certain field. In this field (dermatology) doctors treat many skin conditions, helping the patient psychologically and physically!
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My question is based on medicine. InshaAllah im planning on becoming a doctor
but require some advice regarding a certain field. In this field (dermatology)
doctors treat many skin conditions, helping the patient psychologically and
physically! However, in some areas of the field, people can be cured for
wrinkles, veins which show up on the body which aren`t a pretty sight etc...!
Are we allowed to treat veins on legs and arms of women? (being male)...these
veins are quite un-attractive and can cause loss of confidence etc. But
sometimes they are present on the awrah of women (and men). Would i be able to
treat these? Some also like to remove wrinkles, using botox, to look younger,
by filling them up. Is this allowed?
What other `cosmetic` things would you consider allowed? I understand things
like lip enlargements, nose jobs etc are all haraam as they change your
features, given to us by Allah!
Please aid me in this, as it can depend on my field in the future!
JazakumAllahu khayr!
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Answer:
Cosmetic sugery
In the name of Allah, We praise
Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none
can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright.
We bear witness that there is no one (no idol, no person, no grave, no prophet, no imam,
no dai, nobody!) worthy of
worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His
slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
May Allah Subhanah reward you
with the best of this world and the Hereafter for your kind comments of
encouragement for our humble efforts in the propagation of the Truth. If our humble and modest efforts have helped
even one brother or sister get closer to Allah and His Deen of Truth, then we
would consider ourselves indeed fortunate to have been given this opportunity
by the Lord Most Merciful to serve in His Cause. We hope, beg, and pray the Merciful Lord
accepts our humble and weak efforts, forgives us our shortcomings, and saves
you, us, and all the believers from the torment of the Hell Fire. Ameen.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 82 Surah Infitaar verses 6-8:
6 O man!
What has seduced thee from thy Lord, Most Beneficent?
7 Him Who created thee. Fashioned thee in due proportion,
and gave thee a just bias;
8 In whatever Form He Wills, does He put thee together.
Dear
and Beloved Brother in Islam, almost all the scholars in Islam are absolutely
unanimous in their opinion that there is no harm if the modern advancements in
medical knowledge and surgery is learnt or used to repair people who have
damaged their body parts or have had an accident, etc. But to change or alter one’s body parts for
no valid reason, but only as an adornment or beautification by plastic or
cosmetic surgery, etc. is absolutely against the guidance of Allah and His
Messenger (saws).
Allah
Subhanah fashioned and created His creation in whatever form He Willed and
Pleased; and as those who have submitted their will to the Will of their Lord
in Islam, it does not behove a believer, who sincerely fears Allah and the Last
Day, to deface the fair nature bestowed for us by our Lord Most Merciful.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 4 Surah Nisaa verses 118-121:
118 Allah did curse him (the Shaitaan) but he
said: "I will take of Thy servants a portion marked off.
119 "I will mislead them and I will
create in them false desires; I will
order them to slit the ears of cattle, and
to deface the (fair) nature created by Allah." Whoever forsaking Allah takes Satan for a
friend, hath of a surety suffered a loss
that is manifest.
120 Satan makes them promises and creates in
them false desires; but Satan's promises are nothing but deception.
121 They (his dupes) will have their dwelling
in hell, and from it they will find no
way of escape.
In light of the above
principles and guidance of the Holy Quran, there is absolutely no harm if one
learns the art of plastic or cosmetic surgery so that they may help those in
genuine need; but it would not be permissible for one who sincerely believes in
Allah and the Last Day to change or alter any part of the bestowed form by
nature through cosmetic surgery only as an adornment or beautification.
Your Question: However, in some areas of the field,
people can be cured for wrinkles, veins which show up on the body which aren`t
a pretty sight etc...!
Your Question: Some also like to remove wrinkles, using botox, to look younger,
by filling them up. Is this allowed?
If one’s wrinkles are due to
the passage of time and nature, then their smoothening would be a form of
altering the fair nature created by the Lord Most High; and thus not permissible
in Islam.
Your Question: Are we allowed to treat veins on
legs and arms of women? (being male)...these veins are quite un-attractive and
can cause loss of confidence etc. But sometimes they are present on the awrah
of women (and men). Would i be able to treat these?
If treatment is needed for
genuine health reasons and not only as an adornment for beautification, then it
would be closest to purity and faith that the male doctors attend to male
patients, and female doctors attend to female patients.
If there are no available
doctors of the same gender, and the matter is serious enough which could effect
one’s life, then there is no harm if a doctor of one gender attends to a
patient of the opposite gender.
Your Question: What other `cosmetic` things would
you consider allowed? I understand things like lip enlargements, nose jobs etc
are all haraam as they change your features, given to us by Allah!
If one has a deformity or a genuine health hazard, then there is
absolutely no harm in treating such patients with whatever resources are
available in modern medicine; but to treat one so as to alter or change the
nature bestowed by Allah only as a form of adornment or beautification would be
deemed impermissible in Islam.
If one trusts, obeys, and follows
the guidance and commands of Allah and His Messenger (saws), one can be assured of never ever being
misled; but if one believes, obeys and
follows any other guidance, other than that of Allah and His Messenger (saws),
one can be assured of being led astray.
Whatever written of Truth and
benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error
is of me alone. Allah Alone Knows Best
and He is the Only Source of Strength.
Your brother and well wisher in Islam,
Burhan