Ruling on giving flowers to the sick
حكم إهداء الزهور للمرضى
Ruling on giving flowers to the sick
We wish to ask you about a phenomenon that has started to increase in the hospitals, which is alien to the Muslims societies and has come to us from the kaafir western societies. This is the giving of flowers to the sick, which are bought for a high price. What is your opinion of this custom?Praise be to Allaah
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Undoubtedly there is no benefit in these flowers and no purpose in them. They do not heal the sick person or reduce his pain or bring him good health or ward off diseases. They are merely a manufactured image of flowering plants made by hand or by machine, and sold at a high price from which the manufacturers make a profit and the purchasers lose out. This is no more than blind imitation of the west, without the slightest pause for thought. These flowers are bought for a high price, and they stay with the sick person for an hour or two, or a day or two, then they are thrown out with the trash. It would be better to keep the money and use it for something that will serve a purpose in some worldly or religious sense. Anyone who sees people buying or selling these flowers should rebuke him for doing so, in the hope that he might repent and forego this transaction which leads to nothing but loss.
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Undoubtedly there is no benefit in these flowers and no purpose in them. They do not heal the sick person or reduce his pain or bring him good health or ward off diseases. They are merely a manufactured image of flowering plants made by hand or by machine, and sold at a high price from which the manufacturers make a profit and the purchasers lose out. This is no more than blind imitation of the west, without the slightest pause for thought. These flowers are bought for a high price, and they stay with the sick person for an hour or two, or a day or two, then they are thrown out with the trash. It would be better to keep the money and use it for something that will serve a purpose in some worldly or religious sense. Anyone who sees people buying or selling these flowers should rebuke him for doing so, in the hope that he might repent and forego this transaction which leads to nothing but loss.
Al-Lu’lu’ al-Makeen min Fataawaa al-Shaykh ibn Jibreen, p. 58
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حكم إهداء الزهور للمرضى
نسأل فضيلتكم عن ظاهرة أخذت في الازدياد داخل المستشفيات ، وهي دخيلة على المجتمع المسلم ، حيث انتقلت إلينا من المجتمعات الغربية الكافرة ، ألا وهي - إهداء الزهور للمرضى - وقد تشترى بأثمان باهظة ، فما هو رأيكم في هذه العادة ؟.
الجواب :
لا شك أن هذه الزهور لا فائدة فيها ، ولا أهمية لها ، فلا هي تشفي
المريض ، ولا تخفف الألم ، ولا تجلب الصحة ، ولا تدفع
الأمراض حيث هي مجرد صور مصنوعة على شكل نبات له
زهور ، عملته الأيدي ، أو الماكينات ، وبيع بثمن رفيع ،
ربح فيه الصانعون ، وخسر فيه المشترون ، فليس فيه سوى
تقليد الغرب تقليدا أعمى ، بدون أدنى تفكير ، فإن هذه الزهور
تشترى برفيع الثمن وتبقى عند المريض ساعة أو ساعتين ،
أو يوما أو يومين ، ثم يرمى بها مع النفايات بدون استفادة ،
وكان الأولى الاحتفاظ بثمنها ، وصرفه في شيء نافع من أمور
الدنيا أو الدين ، فعلى من رأى أحدا يشتريها أو يبيعها تنبيه
من يفعل ذلك ، رجاء أن يتوب ويترك هذا الشراء الذي هو خسران مبين .
اللؤلؤ المكين من فتاوى الشيخ ابن جبرين ص58 .
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