Islam and Disability

Page Highlights: Fatwas | Hajj Services for People with Disabilities | Articles | Accessibility | Disability Organizations | Historical Profiles | Perspective on Disability

Fatwas:

Aborting the disabled child

Fatwas on disability:

1. How a person with a disability purifies himself?
2. How a person with a disability prays?
3. What to do with guide dog when entering the masjid?
4. Putting pages of the Mus-haf in spiral-bound as a form of accommodation
5. People with disabilities performing hajj
6. Ruling on aborting a disabled fetus
7. Ruling on giving medication and seeking the patient’s permission
8. Purification and prayer for one who has urinary incontinence
9. How should a person who suffers kidney failure fast?
10. She had an operation and offered several prayers without having purified herself and without facing the qiblah
11. Praying behind an imam who had a disability
12. How can a person who is partially paralyzed do wudoo’ and pray?
13. He had a wet dream and could not do ghusl due to disability so he did wudoo’ and prayed
14. He is unable to do wudoo’ or tayammum – how should he pray?
15. He is sick and the doctor told him not to fast
16. She is blind and she has no one to protect her and help her. Can she keep a dog that is trained for that purpose?
17. Is it permissible to take off the khimar in front of a blind man?
18. Obligatory duties for those who are deaf
19. Who should pay for the one who is going to take care of a handicapped person when going for ‘Umrah?
20. He cannot wear the ihraam garments due to disability – can he enter ihraam in his own clothes?
21. Should we refrain from treating children who have mental disabilities?

Hajj Services for People with Disabilities:

1. Services for pilgrims with disabilities at Hajj
2. Services at the haram for people with disabilities
3. Wheelchair services at the haram

Articles:

1. Hajj in a wheelchair
2. Islam – A Guide for Service providers working with a person with a Disability
3. What does Islam say about disability?
4. EnAble Deaf Awareness Day (by Raihanna Hirji)
5. Saeeda’s story (on being Muslim and deaf)
6. Living with Paraplegia
7. What is MS and how it affects you
8. Being a Disabled Muslim Woman – blog by Meghan Rose
9. Muslim taxi-drivers vs. seeing eye dogs – blog by Daniel Pipes
10. Disability and the Muslim Perspective: An Introduction for Rehabilitation and Health Care Providers (CIRRIE monograph)

Historical Profiles:

Muslims with disabilities have always been a part of the ummah and have always made their contribution to society.

Two of the Prophets (peace be upon them) are known to have disabilities. Moosa (Moses) had a speech impediment which he asked Allah to heal him of, and Ayyoub (Job) was tested with severe illness among the other calamities that befall him. Despite these challenges, with Allah's help they were able to take on the missions with which Allah entrusted them and convey the message of Allah to their people. Read more...