Publication: An analysis on Islamic rules on drugs
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2013
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Contemporary Research Center CRC Publications
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The consumption of drugs for medication had been acknowledged by traditional Muslim jurists. However, when drugs were consumed for recreational purpose, the jurists started to dispute in this matter. This paper analyses the traditional Muslim jurists' attitudes (opinions) towards drug and examines their methodologies to determine
the rulings of drug. This study finds that the jurists did not only rely on traditional analogy (qiyas) or conservative methods of deriving rules but some of them also conducted selfexperiment method to identify the effect of drugs. The study also finds that the classical jurist were divided into three groups, the first group totally permitted drugs, the second group allowed drugs that are consumed for necessity purpose and the last group banned drugs totally.
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Drugs, Medication, Islamic rules