After having a child (where the delivery was normal) my husband is having a hard time fulfilling his sexual desire with me; not because of outward appearance, but during sex when he is inside me. There are surgeries available to help fix the situation: > Vaginoplasty is a procedure that aims to "tighten up" a vagina that's become slack or loose from vaginal childbirth or aging. -- WebMD However, I'm not sure if these types of surgeries are halal (due to necessity) or haram. I have also noticed the change with myself and feel very depressed and embarrassed by this thing. Please, I'm seeking the most correct knowledge on this situation.

HHS.gov write about mental health: > Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. > > ... Many factors contribute to mental health problems, including: (a) Biological factors, such as genes or brain chemistry, (b) Life experiences, such as trauma or abuse, and (c) Family history of mental health problems. Poor mental health and mental illness can lead to negative consequences, such as suicide and self harm, along with other unsocial behaviors, e.g. drug use, excessive drinking, excessive dieting, gambling, and so on. Included in this list are behaviors strongly forbidden in Islam (i.e., they're major sins). **Question**: Is mental health treatment sufficient to make permissible otherwise haram acts? It's widely accepted in Islam that *necessity overrides prohibition* (الضـرورات تبیح المحظورات) provided there is no alternative, e.g.: > ...If a forbidden insulin is the only choice, a religious leader or doctor should be encouraged to mediate and reduce the patient's guilt feeling and spiritual pain. **These advisers would use the doctrine of ‘the sanctity of life’, permissible in Islam.** It means that life must be saved at all costs. -- Bashir Qureshi, Diabetes in Ramadan , J. R. Soc. Med. 2002. While mental health treatment can be life saving, it doesn't usually take the immediate form "undergo treatment X and you'll be cured". Personal friends who have taken antidepressants report a "trial and error" nature, i.e., we can't know in advance whether a treatment works for a particular patient (if it doesn't work, try another medication). So it's not obvious that "necessity overrides prohibition" applies to mental health treatment. Likewise, I'm uncertain whether mental health treatment falls under the umbrella of the hadith: > The Prophet said, "There is no disease that Allah has created, except that He also has created its treatment." -- Abu Huraira , [Sahih al-Bukhari 5678] (sunnah.com ) Two prominent examples of conflict I've found in the medical literature are: (a) Muslims not taking medication during Ramadan, and (b) Muslims refusing to take medicine involving pork products. For example: > As ingestion of pork or any of its products is totally forbidden in Islam and it may be considered as committing a sinful act. So if this issue is not identified and addressed, then patients may not only stop taking their medications, and hence leading to relapse of symptoms, increasing hospitalization rates, and increasing healthcare costs but also lead to a poor doctor-patient relationship. -- Sabry and Vohra, Role of Islam in the management of Psychiatric disorders , Indian J Psychiatry. 2013. Also, surveys report unwillingness of Muslims to acknowledge and seek treatement for mental health issues (interpreting them as e.g. tests from God, or possession by jinn): > Even when Muslims have positive attitudes toward mental healing, social stigma remains strong. -- Ciftci, Jones, and Corrigan, Mental Health Stigma in the Muslim Community , Stigma, 2012. ------ This question arose as a result of Medi1Saif's answer to https://islam.stackexchange.com/q/35959/17163 .

Does laser treatment on face affect wudhu as it leaves a small laser layer on skin for days. Does it invalidate wudhu ?

I don't mean to bother you. I am not Muslim, but I have deep respect for your faith and work and study with Muslims on an almost daily basis. I have noticed that some of my Muslim friends do not eat certain foods. Can truly necessary medications--insulin, for example--be exempt from Muslim dietary rules? I know God would never want a person to actively harm or kill him- or herself without very, very good reasons. I have learned that people who are ill or very elderly are not expected to fast during Ramadan, and people are asked to go on the hajj only if they can afford it. My true interest is the core of Islam. As a Quaker, I believe any religion that leads a person to find the love and truth within and live it with all people has something precious from which I can learn and enrich my own faith. I was just curious about the dietary laws.

Assalamu alaikum, My wife and I have been trying for children for several years with no success. We have undertaken many tests that could not determine a biological issue with our health. We have gone through two IVF cycles unsuccessfully. Our consultant has asked that I should not refrain from ejaculation for more than 36-48 hours until the next IVF cycle is complete. However my wife will be traveling with her family for a few days during this time. I don't know how best to address this. I know the majority of opinion is that masturbation is haram, unless for medical purposes. But considering I am married and have a halal alternative (albeit not while she is travelling) I don't know where I stand with rulings. Please can you refer me to some knowledge so that I act, by Allah's will, in accordance with shariah.

What I want here is to completely understand the picture of Clinical Trials in Islam. My question is, Can a Muslim work in the research department or the back end IT department for such organisations? Would it be a Halal income?

I recently came across a sermon where the narrator recommends to recite > YA SHAAFI YA KAFI YA BAQI ( The Healer, Self-sufficient, The > Everlasting) for General Sickness, Deadly Diseases, Fevers, Burns or Evil Eye. Is there any reference to this from the sunnah? How authentic is this practice?

I have had surgery to remove breast cancer. My oncologist has advised chemotherapy for next stage treatment. She states that although surgery has removed the cancer, this is to mop up any stray cells that might be left behind. Benefits of chemo are 6% for disease free survival but there are many potential and permanent side effects to this. What is the Islamic standpoint on such treatment?

Is vasectomy permissible in Islam to prevent further pregnancies? If not then what are the ways acceptable under Islam to prevent unwanted pregnancies?

I have to eat anti epileptic medicine at 8:00 AM and 8:00 PM. This cannot be delayed not even for 10 minutes. So if I eat my medicine while fasting, will it make my fast makrooh?

Is it permissible to take a supplement that contains an ingredient derived from pork? Even if it’s needed as part of a treatment process? I want to take an HCL and digestive enzymes supplement that contain pepsin. From what I read, pepsin is needed to restore HCL acid in the stomach but it's derived from a pig's liver. It helps with digesting protein, what does Islam say about that? I originally used the supplement without knowing that pepsin was derived from a pig. I was able to eat eggs and anything without getting stomach ache and brain fog. After I found out it comes from pig, I stopped the supplement and found one that is derived from plants. The only problem is that I don't feel as good as the animal based enzymes. I still get brain fog and its preventing me from studying and this is my last semester in school. I honestly doesn't know what to do now. I can try other supplements but it would take time and money and I don't have both. Is it halal to continue with a supplement that contains pepsin from a pig until I heal my stomach or is it haram?

I have a metal plate in my arm that was caused by a car bombing. I started taking tramadol to relief my pain but i got into an addiction problem with it so later i stopped. The doctor then told me about Absolut vodka and he said that it was intended to be a medicine/drug that could be used medically but then they just sold it was vodka, he also said that it has 0% of addiction. Should i take it for my severe pain or is it haram?

assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh so i want to ask, I'm a teenager Muslim male, but i, for my entire life i rarely pray at masjid because my social anxiety, im afraid to meet another people and it's really hard to overcome it, but regardless i still do my prayer at home, so am i sinful for not praying in the masjid? People told me my prayer is valid but I'm still committing a sin by not going to masjid even though im physically well, but like i said, im really afraid of meeting another people or talk or just look at them, i still do my Friday pray at the masjid but even then i still am feel uncomfortable being around a lot of people, this really affect my social life, but i don't know what to do I hope i can overcome my social anxiety, but for the time being, is my prayer still a valid but sinful pray? im sorry im not that good at English but i hope whoever reading this get the point I'm trying to say wassalamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh

brain dead is defined as *Irreversible brain damage and loss of brain function, as evidenced by cessation of breathing and other vital reflexes, unresponsiveness to stimuli, absence of muscle activity, and a flat electroencephalogram for a specific length of time.* Most people believe that one who becomes brain dead has no chance at survival, although a few cases prove otherwise. The only thing that is keeping the patient alive is a respiratory machine that keeps the heart pumping. Most of patient’s vital organs have ceased to function, causing them to be pronounced as legally dead. There are few cases where the patient has recovered after a long period of time, giving small chance of survival to those who are pronounced brain dead, but even when they do wake up they face years of trauma and rehabilitation from shock and the inactivity of their organs for so long. So would it be haram to pull the plug on the respitory machine, as most doctors suggest you do? Or is the persons soul still in their body causing them to be alive and have a chance at survival. Should we leave their time of death to Allah? Or should we let them rest in peace to avoid pain and suffering to the patient and their family?

If only the capsule is made of gelatine, does removing the medicine from inside mean it can be consumed without ingesting something haram. I have read that najis (impurities) only transfers when that najis or what it touches is wet. In this case the capsule is dry.

I am a Muslim woman and realise that I have a duty to my husband to please him and do what I need to do to keep us together. Lately however I feel the attraction between us has not been the way it used to be and I feel that he will start to look elsewhere. I know the flaws I have that are aesthetic and I want to know if changing them cosmetically through surgery for the sake of keeping my husband interested is haram. I have thought about many other options such as make up, but he hates it when I wear it so I'd rather do something that doesn't require me to wear it. I am sure if I undergo the change he will be more visually pleased.

As a high school student I am extremely confused about the compromise between religion and occupation. I'm aware that there are guidelines for this but say you wanted to do nursing or medical school, you would have to go through the clinical practice which involves association with the opposite gender, so would that be Islamically acceptable? Keeping in mind the situations you would face for example, during clinical practice in nursing, you will be taught and expected to know how to "clean up" a patient whether it be male or female, and this would mean being exposed to body parts of the opposite gender? Is that allowed? Also as a doctor you will obviously have to go through the practice (residency) in which you will face diseases involving the opposite gender in certain areas? I just wanted to clarify if this was okay and if there are barriers, what would the other options be. (no matter what career out of the 2, you will still have to go through the building blocks and they can't be discarded, how will this work?) Jazakhallah for taking the time to address my questions. Ps.I know a few Muslim nurses in full hijab that practice but I just feel uncomfortable after realizing the part where I will have to deal with visual content of the opposite gender.

In my opinion, chemotherapy harms the body and does more damage than benefit. It does little to improve you and rather ends up destroying your entire immune system, causing you to become further physically weak. Would it be permissible for one who holds this opinion to turn down chemotherapy, provided they have cancer?

I had this question for many years and still don't know if it is suicide or not, in one way you { by not taking the "cure" which is chemotherapy, and others } wish yourself death. but I don't think it is a suicide, because, in the end, Allah will decide for me to live or die. please be free to refer to any hadith or aya that mention this subject.

According to the [Encyclopedia of Britannica](http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/279820/hypnosis) *hypnosis* means: > **hypnosis**, special psychological state with certain physiological > attributes, resembling sleep only superficially and marked by a > functioning of the individual at a level of awareness other than the > ordinary conscious state. This state is characterized by a degree of > increased receptiveness and responsiveness in which inner experiential > perceptions are given as much significance as is generally given only > to external reality I have never heard of it being forbidden, but I have also never heard of it being allowed either. To me, it looks like its affects resembles to two different haraam things, - Alcohol: As alcohol, it affects your natural way of thinking. It alternate the way of your thinking superficially. - [Music](https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/237/music-in-islam) : I don't remember the exact reference, but I remember it is being argued that one can get influenced greatly with the message delivered by music without giving much thought about it, or it might evoke superficial emotional state. it resembles the way how delivering a message is easy with hypnosis and how it might evoke superficial emotional state. Considering this, how should a Muslim approach the practice of hypnosis? Edit: I am not talking about self-hypnosis, which resembles more to meditation, since there can be many differences in rulings between hypnosis made by one person to the other and self-hypnosis. This question is focused about hypnosis made by one person and affecting the other.