The Legitimacy of Cessation of Supportive Measures in Patients with Brain Death in Sunni Jurisprudence

Brain death is a medical term and it means the irreversible stop of the brain. Since in Islamic law, the reality of death and life is considered the subject of a religious order, so it is important to achieve brain death in order to observe the divine limits; the contemporary jurisprudents of the Sunni Orthodoxy have expressed different opinions about it, which are divided into three groups of supporters and opponents of brain death and the middle class are divided. Some jurisprudents do not consider brain death to be deserving of respect for the human soul and according to the principles, such as the principle of presuming continuation of the status quo ante, and the observance of the common parlance, is not absolute death, and therefore does not allow the separation of the resuscitation devices from the patient and the bringing out their members, but the second group, brain death from the directing the lack of human life and according to the theory of the medical commission, which is the same special custom, it is considered to be a dead end it is permissible to separate the devices of resuscitation from the patient and to bring out their members, while others consider brain death as one of the examples of definitive death, but from the direction Some legal jurisprudential rulings do not consider a person who has a brain death to be a dead corps.