Is Refusing To Take COVID Vaccine Against Islamic Principles?
Brother Faraz with full respect of your opinion, let me present you the case differently. 1. Islam gets involved whenever Allah’s obligation or human rights are impacted, when others rights and priviledges are trampled and when others money is unjustifiably taken. Now let me explain how not taking COVID vaccine is equivalent to that.Consider taking vaccine similar to driving a vehicle. If anyone wants to drive a vehicle at 200 miles per hour in the middle of a desert that it is his right and freedom to do so because it doesn’t impact anyone; just the driver is jeopardizing his own life.On the other hand if the same person drives the same vehicle at 200 mph on a city street, he is jeapordizing others lives too. Thus he has no right to drive fast and thus he goes to jail for doing so. Similarly if someone for whatever the reason, myths or beliefs (not based on facts or science) refuses to take the vaccine and goes and lives in the middle of the desert with no contact to others and in case he gets sick he forgives his rights to use medical system, then certainly the person has the rights and freedom to do so; otherwise not. Regarding fatwas, those are absurd, and nothing to do with Islam. For medical reason, as the only choice available, if someone has to eat pigs meat, drink alcohol or even eat feces, it would be allowed in Islam. Islam is not an illogical religion. Until there is a choice of Vaccine that is developed without using pig or alcohol, the current Vaccine is perfectly halal. Also there are plenty of vaccines that are RNA based that may not have anything to do with pig or alcohol.