{"id":6837,"date":"2024-07-10T07:44:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/are-those-dying-of-epidemic-shaheed\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T21:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:49:14","slug":"are-those-dying-of-epidemic-shaheed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/are-those-dying-of-epidemic-shaheed\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Those Dying Of Epidemic Shaheed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>My wife died due to CA Ovary. I have read in the Sahih of Bukhari that if a patient dies due to abdomen problem he is &#8220;<em>Shaheed<\/em>&#8220;. Can you please put some light on this?<\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>The traditions which tell us that people who die of some particular diseases or accidents are <em>shaheed<\/em>  are not taken in literal sense. Taking them in literal sense does not  correspond to the express teachings of the Qur&#8217;an. Therefore, we need to  interpret them or keep them under consideration. We believe that <em>shaheed<\/em>  as a term of Islamic religious literature is one who spends his life in  the struggle of uplifting the word of God and even sacrifices his life  for this cause. Obviously this person must be obeying all the religious  injunctions without a single exception. We cannot testify that such and  such a person attained to the status of <em>shaheed<\/em> even when he\/she  died in the battlefield fighting against the enemies of God. This is  because nobody can learn the true motives of a warrior. <\/p>\n<div>Taking a person who died an accidental death as <em>shaheed<\/em>  negates the whole system of trial and test of this life and the purpose  of the final judgment based on pure and complete justice of God. The  narratives can best be explained as having reference to those who died  while for example in an expedition but not in direct combat. We should  believe that once such persons left their homes for the sake of God  willing to offer their lives for His sake they must merit the reward of  those who die in actual war.<\/div>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Tariq Mahmood Hashmi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-03-07<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6837\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife died due to CA Ovary. I have read in the Sahih of Bukhari that if a patient dies due to abdomen problem he is &#8220;<em>Shaheed<\/em>&#8220;. 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