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The First Resolutionon Organ TransplantAll praise be to Almighty Allah.Blessing and peace be on His Prophet Muhammadafter whom there is no prophet, and on all thosewho followed his way of guidance.The Islamic Fiqh Council during its 8 th session held at theheadquarters of the Muslim World League in MakkahMukarramah between 28 Rabi Al-Aakhir 1405H – 7 Jumad Al-Oula 1405H (19-28 January 1985) and on the request made bythe Muslim World League Office in the United States to theCouncil, looked into the issue of transplanting the organ of onehuman being into another, who is in need of that organ to makeup his idle organ in the wake of great strides made by modernmedical science with the use of latest technology.The Council reviewed the study prepared by SheikhAbdullah Ibn Abdurrahmah Al-Bassam in this regard, and itscontents that included the difference of contemporary Fiqhscholars on permissibility of transplanting the human organs andarguments of every group of scholars in favour of its views in thelight of the relevant Shari’ah evidences.After thorough discussion among its members, the Councilwas of the view that the arguments of those who permittransplant are stronger, therefore it adopted the followingresolution:First:The transplant of an organ from the body of a living humanbeing into the body of another human being who is in need ofthis organ in order to save his life or to restore the function of199