Posted by Abu Iyaad
Resource Date:
December 2021
Filed under Miscellaneous
BETWEEN EARLY TO MID-2021, 17 European nations suspended the Astrazeneca vaccine because it was causing deaths through blood clots and doubts began to surface about the other vaccinations because they were causing heart damage (myocarditis and pericarditis) especially in young people. One of our fit and healthy Salafī brothers in Birmingham died suddenly after he had taken two shots. Then these types of sudden deaths following vaccinations began to increase. Many doctors began noticing these cases (among their patients) and papers began to be published in the scientific journals and (reports) began to appear in the media. By the first couple of months in 2022 alone, a substantial body of evidence had accumulated:
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Some have claimed that one is sinful for not taking the experimental injections and that it is opposition to the scholars and rulers. I sent a question to two brothers in Riyāḍh to present to Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (حفظه الله) and they found the opportunity to do so.
I present the details below.
On the 2nd Jumaadaa al-Oulaa 1443 (7th December 2021) after Salaat al-Fajr at the Sheikh's local masjid in al-Fayhaa, we asked Sheikh al-'Allamah Saleh al-Fawzan whilst leaving the masjid and accompanying him to his car:
جـ : "يجمع بين الإثنين"
س: "و لكن شيخنا لا يُجبر في أخذ اللقاح … فهل يأثم ؟"
جـ: "وش لون؟ لا يُجبرهم… هذا مباح.. إن أراد أخذ… التداوي مباح… لا يأثم"
Questioner: may Allah grant you goodness, our Sheikh, there are Muslims around the world in different countries where they have a choice to take the vaccine and they are not forced to take it by those in authority (over them). If one of them prefers different means of keeping himself safe from illness such as Duaa, or Tawbah, or Giving in Sadaqah, and he chooses to not take the vaccine, is he sinful in the Shari'ah of Allah?
Answer: he can combine between both
Questioner: however Sheikh he is not compelled to take the vaccine, so is he then sinful?
Answer: How is this? They are not compelled. This is something permissible. If he wishes to, take it, seeking cure is Mubaah (an action that one is not sinful if one doesn’t do it, nor is he rewarded if he does it), (so) he does not fall into Sin (for not taking it).
The question was asked and witnessed (الشهود) by:
Zakariya Adam
Zoaib Yusuf
Note
The ruling on medicine is that it is mubāḥ (permissible)[1] and it is the same with these injections. Though many nations strongly encouraged the taking of these vaccines, [and many people suffered hardships and were disadvantaged to varying degrees], none of the Major Scholars declared them obligatory (wājib) as far as we know and considered anyone sinful for not taking them. Sadly, some people were saying otherwise and making it look as if one was abandoning an obligation if they did not take these injections.
They were even using as an argument that some scholars took the injections and to not do so would be revilement of them. However, the individual choice of a scholar is not proof in a legislative ruling, and we do not know of a scholar who has said this. So these people themselves, while claiming to "return back to the scholars" were not actually doing so and they were attributing to scholars what the scholars were not saying themselves. I had warned some of these people from early 2020 not to do this, because this may potentially harm the scholars.
So Shaykh al-Fawzān clarified that a person is not sinful for resorting to other means, whether religious (duʿa etc.) or worldly (supplements etc.). This is very different to what these people were claiming and sadly, they were misleading people in this respect.
Footnotes
1. This is the Shaykh's view and others hold that it is recommended (mustahabb).