MEDICAL ETHICS FROM AN ISLAMIC POINT OF VIEW

Abstract

The Qur'an, the primary source of Islam, claims to have neglected nothing in the Book. Islam as such asserts to be an all-encompassing religion, guiding Muslims in all the aspect of life from personal to social, mundane to spatial as well as, theoretical or applied. In certain issues the original sources of Islam viz the Qur'an and Sunnah provide the explicit guidance while in others it is implicit. The medical ethics in Islam falls in the latter category. The aim of the present paper is to identify and highlight the guiding principles of medical ethics in Islam viz-a-viz its original sources. It is also to delineate the distinction of Islamic perspective on ethics. It will be a literature research and the methodology followed will be descriptive and analytical.