The Ruling about Removal of Organ(s) of a Living Human for Transplantation Based on Fatwas of the Supreme Leader

Thanks to the developments in medicine, transplantation of organs has become possible through which people survive. Therefore, organ transplantation is among the necessary issues which have entailed many discussions including legal and jurisprudential considerations. This article aims to explain the jurisprudential ruling of organ transplantation. First, legal stages have been covered and then opinions of jurists about permissibility or impermissibility of removing an organ of a living human for transplantation have been mentioned. Later, the arguments by those jurists who forbid the removal of organs were analyzed and it was concluded that we should differentiate between a case where main organs on which the survival of the person depends are to be removed and the case where other organs on which the survival of the person does not depend are to be removed. In the first case it is unlawful and in the second case it is not unlawful because it is not included in any of the categories of unlawfulness.