Author(s): Reema Al Qaruty, Lamya Raslan
The current study focuses on an essential issue, which has emerged as a result of the pandemic, known as COVID 19, that has attacked the whole world since the beginning of 2020, and still having deep effect on people’s lives up to nowadays. It is the issue of taking the medical vaccine from an Islamic perspective to restrict and reduce the pandemic’s spread.
The study concludes that the ruling of medication in Islam is binding for all, especially if the spreading disease threatens the life of all humanity. Every ruler has the right to impose on his people to take the available vaccinations as a means highly required for protecting the whole society from this deadly epidemic.
Accordingly, taking the medical vaccination is not a matter of choice, but rather an obligation being inspired by the words of God Almighty, “Whoever saves a life, as if he has saved the lives of all people” (Surat Al-Ma’idah 32).