Using unlawful meat and fat as medicine

Question

(1) Zayd is ill. Most doctors and physicians have told him: “Consume pork and palm wine.” Does the Shari‘a forbid the consumption of pork and palm wine or not? Furthermore, people think that English medicines contain an ingredient of wine. Should they be used or not? (2) Biscuits, tal (?)

Answer

(1) If a skilled, religious Muslim physician or doctor prescribes that recovery is impossible without pork and that no other lawful thing can take its place, then its use is permissible. As for palm wine, if it intoxicates like wine, the same ruling applies to it; if it does not intoxicate, its use is permissible even without the stated condition. So it is in al-Hindiyya (p.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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