If you needed a life-saving medication that was only available in a pork-derived capsule, and no other form...?

...would taking that life-saving medication be haram or halal?

Anonymous2011-05-22T01:01:18Z

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If it is a life or death situation, I believe it is halal to consume something that is "pork-derived" provided that you make dua over it and ask for Allah's mercy and understanding--otherwise, refusing to take it when you know you will die if you don't amounts to suicide, which is totally haraam. Besides, it's not like you're sitting down for a ham dinner. Please, don't make Islam harder than it has to be, and Allah knows best.

She said2011-05-22T10:05:35Z

There is no medication on earth that is ONLY available in a pork derivative capsule. Vegetarian capsules can hold any medication the exact same way as pork gelatin based capsules.

If we are starving to death and the only thing to sustain our life is pork we are permitted to eat it, so take a wild guess.

Life Guru2011-05-22T08:40:11Z

This one is a no brainer, life is the most precious thing in Islamic teachings and any medication is halal even the one derived from pork.

Mintee2011-05-22T09:48:38Z

read the verses Nur up there gave.. I'll copy and paste

[16:115]
He has only forbidden to you dead animals, blood, the flesh of swine, and that which has been dedicated to other than Allah . But whoever is forced [by necessity], neither desiring [it] nor transgressing [its limit] - then indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.


where it says: but whoever is forced by necessity....
right there.. Allah allows us to eat pork or items that are forbidden for a purpose.. Allah is merciful. Islam is merciful.. it isnt meant as a hardship..

If we have no other food and are starving and the only item to eat is pork meat, we are allowed to do so to preserve our lives.. up till the point just satiated and when another food source becomes available to us.. same as in medicine.. we also dont take alcohol, but if a medicant has alcohol in it, and it is the only one to save our lives.. we are allowed to take it..

?2011-05-22T08:04:30Z

As a life-saving medication, it is allowed in Islam.

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