The impact of health precautions on the formulation of fatwas during the corona pandemic

Abstract

The relationship between jurisprudence and medicine is an undoubtedly well-established and strong relationship, and this relationship is reflected in the aspects that entail saving lives in parallel to preserving religion. The rise of the Corona pandemic and the consequent health precautions controlled the world to limit its spread and save the human souls, which necessitated the jurists to reconsider many of the rulings that cannot be complied with in response to these precautions. Therefore, this paper aims to track the impact of the repercussions of the Corona pandemic on the fatwas according to the calamities and developments that resulted from this pandemic. It also aims to classify and identify those effects and data according to the fatwas that were formulated by following the documentary inductive functional approach, as it searches for the relationship between two sciences in order to document their shared evidence and address the common issues between them. So, the researcher, according to this methodology, can prove the overlapping issues, identify them, determine the impact of this overlap, and provide a way to employ it. This can be achieved by tracking the outbreaks of the pandemic and collecting them from sources and documents, and by analysing the trends of fatwas with organized observation. This paper is of great importance as it contributes to tracking and studying the overlap between the pandemics and its developments and the fatwa. The jurist researcher, as well as medical students, can benefit from it. It can also serve as a call for the students of Sharia sciences to follow the interdisciplinary method that considers the employment of sciences that share a common space.