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Islam and the Quran
benefit people after one’s death, or planting of a tree, the
shade of which may be used by travellers in future.

Moreover, the fact that our body accepts organs from
another’s body is because our body has been naturally
made in this way. That is, it is a natural law. If organ
donation was unnatural then it would not have been
possible for us to donate in the first place. If God has
made our body in this way – that is, it can accept organs
from others, then it means that it is part of God’s will
that one person should donate to another. Hence, there
is no question of lawful or unlawful when it comes to
the act of organ donation. God has Himself kept the
possibility in human body to accept organs from others.
Therefore, those who have discovered the principle of
organ donation have done an Islamic act indeed. When
you add fertilizers to soil, it accepts it. This means that soil
already had acceptability for fertilizers; this acceptability
was not created in it by anyone external to it. It is a
natural law. Similarly, the acceptability of others’ organs
by a particular person shows that receiving of donated
organs is normal. Organ donation is thus availing of a
natural opportunity and highly rewarding.

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