What's The Islamic Perspective On Trolley Problem?
From Islamic perspective, u can only take life if that person is murderer or spreading corruption in land. So with this principle, we cannot pass any judgement to take a life. On the other hand, if u make a decision to save the group, and you take life of single person, state can prosecute u with man slaughter charge. However, they may be lenient to not give death penalty
@UmerQureshi According to how Ghamidi sahab understands Deen, a person doesn’t need any external guidence to decide weather theft(clear crimes) is wrong or not. For the ambiguous matters, if allah has revealed a direct judgement, it has to be accepted. By principle, for ambiguities for which there is no such direct or indirect judgement, we have to try stay away from these gray matter. When its impossible to skip judgement, we should do ijtihad. Amr ibn al-‘As reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “If a judge makes a ruling, striving to apply his reasoning and he is correct, he will have two rewards. If a judge makes a ruling, striving to apply his reasoning and he is mistaken, he will have one reward.” Source: Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 7352, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 1716