Analysis of the ruling on harming oneself and its evidence in the Imamiyyah jurisprudence

Abstract

Despite the clarity of the importance of human health, we find that the issue of self-harm has spread widely, which some consider permissible based on the rule of property and the fact that a person has a right to himself. The main question that the article raises in the field of self-harm is the religious ruling on various levels that the Imami jurists concluded with rational and textual evidence.

This research, which was written in an analytical descriptive manner, has reached the following results: damages of the same degree include suicide, amputation, loss of one of the senses, exposure to disease, minor damage, and insult. It is forbidden to kill verses, hadiths and reason. Unless it is for self-defense or jihad and with the permission of the guardian. The Sharia also forbids amputation, because it exposes a person to death unless there is a logical and medical reason for that. As for the other levels, there is a difference between the jurists on them