Sin for Survival?
In the Name of Allah---the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. Islam allows a little sin for survival when a person's life is at stake. It refers to situations when one has nothing to eat or drink despite struggle except a Haram thing. Islam allows a little sin for survival when a person’s life is at stake. It refers to situations when one has nothing to eat or drink despite struggle except a Haram thing. This principle of Islamic law suggests that exceptions should be treated differently. This Islamic principle clarifies some misconceptions related to absolute morality. It has been a point of debate among Muslim theologians whether things are considered good or bad intellectually or only Shariah can define the goodness or wickedness of some action or thing. The right answer lies in the middle ground. Things and actions are intrinsically good or bad but Shariah helps us to identify them. What is a sin? From the Qur’anic point of view, sin (ذنب, ithm, sayyi’ah, khati’ah ) ...