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Erfanian A. Analyzing the Jurisprudential Aspects of Transformation and the Use of Blood Derivatives in Cosmetics: The Imamiyyah Jjurisprudence Aapproach. JRH 2026; 13 (2)
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Advanced-Level Seminary Student, Department of Jurisprudence and Principles, Fiqh Center of the Infallible Imams (Peace Be Upon Them), Qom, Iran
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Background and Objectives: Blood contains many valuable components used in cosmetic products. Due to jurisprudence rulings on blood impurity, two issues must be examined: first, how these components are modified during cosmetic production; second, whether producing and trading these components is permissible. The purpose of this research is to examine the processing of products made from blood components and to use jurisprudential evidence to determine whether the manufacture, use, purchase, and sale of these products are permissible.
Methods: This study was conducted using interdisciplinary research, jurisprudence, and medicine, with a descriptive-analytical method. The scientific explanation of the issue is based on medical sources and the analysis of Sharia rulings, documented by evidence and jurisprudential texts. Initially, after collecting scientific materials related to the processing of blood components from valid medical articles, the author analyzed them thematically, and finally, concluded the nature of these products. Then, by referring to religious texts and the opinions of jurists, an attempt was made to find out under which jurisprudential title these products were placed. Therefore, in order to prove the purity or impurity of these products, topics, such as depreciation and metamorphosis, were addressed to clarify whether these materials, according to their nature, fall under the mentioned topics or not. Then, in order to judge its production, use, and treatment, the evidence related to these products and the analysis of the issues in the evidence were presented. In this part, the author, by expressing the opinions of the jurists and the evidence in the hadiths, made a claim using the method of content analysis and limited the sanctity in the evidence to eating these products and trading for this motive.
Findings: During the production of these products, blood components remain insoluble because their molecular structures do not change chemically. Therefore, from a cultural perspective, these products remain blood. The jurisprudential terms of consumption and transformation cannot be applied to determine the purity of these products because, in Sharia, consumption is only considered impure matter in terms of purity. Additionally, the failure to achieve transformation due to the lack of chemical change in the components, along with the limited scope of jurisprudence on consumption issues, prevents a ruling on the purity of these products. There is evidence from the Quran, Sunnah, and consensus that the use of blood and, consequently, its components, is not permitted.
Conclusion: Since none of the jurisprudential purifications are present in the production process, these products are impure; also, due to the withdrawal of the evidence of the sanctity of blood for "eating"—the traditional benefit of the era of legislation—its other rational benefits, such as cosmetic uses, are permissible.
Methods: This study was conducted using interdisciplinary research, jurisprudence, and medicine, with a descriptive-analytical method. The scientific explanation of the issue is based on medical sources and the analysis of Sharia rulings, documented by evidence and jurisprudential texts. Initially, after collecting scientific materials related to the processing of blood components from valid medical articles, the author analyzed them thematically, and finally, concluded the nature of these products. Then, by referring to religious texts and the opinions of jurists, an attempt was made to find out under which jurisprudential title these products were placed. Therefore, in order to prove the purity or impurity of these products, topics, such as depreciation and metamorphosis, were addressed to clarify whether these materials, according to their nature, fall under the mentioned topics or not. Then, in order to judge its production, use, and treatment, the evidence related to these products and the analysis of the issues in the evidence were presented. In this part, the author, by expressing the opinions of the jurists and the evidence in the hadiths, made a claim using the method of content analysis and limited the sanctity in the evidence to eating these products and trading for this motive.
Findings: During the production of these products, blood components remain insoluble because their molecular structures do not change chemically. Therefore, from a cultural perspective, these products remain blood. The jurisprudential terms of consumption and transformation cannot be applied to determine the purity of these products because, in Sharia, consumption is only considered impure matter in terms of purity. Additionally, the failure to achieve transformation due to the lack of chemical change in the components, along with the limited scope of jurisprudence on consumption issues, prevents a ruling on the purity of these products. There is evidence from the Quran, Sunnah, and consensus that the use of blood and, consequently, its components, is not permitted.
Conclusion: Since none of the jurisprudential purifications are present in the production process, these products are impure; also, due to the withdrawal of the evidence of the sanctity of blood for "eating"—the traditional benefit of the era of legislation—its other rational benefits, such as cosmetic uses, are permissible.
Keywords: Cosmetic Products, Depreciation, Impurity of Blood Products, Medical Jurisprudence, Trading in Impure Goods, Transformation
Type of Study: Original Research |
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Islamic Feqh & Law
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