Corona Virus Disease-19 (COVID-19) Vaccine: Its Jurisprudential Rules in Light of Legal Purposes (Kuwait as a Case Study)

Abstract

Objectives: The study aims to define the jurisprudence and the legal purpose, clarifying the term Corona vaccine, then highlighting the medical evaluation of Corona vaccines, and mentioning the Sharia ruling on vaccinations, with clarification of the ruling on compulsory vaccination, and the jurisprudential effects of the vaccine.

Methods: The research followed the descriptive approach, by tracking the statements of scientists and evidence and describing them, to deduce the appropriate judgment for the corona vaccine, find out what the Jurists said, and download it with the contemporary medical description of the types of vaccines.

Results: The study outlined the concepts related to the current pandmeic, such as the virus, corona, the Fiqh ruling, and the Shari'a purposes, and reached the legality of therapeutic and preventive medicine in both its therapeutic and preventive aspects in the Islamic Sharia, and the permissibility of taking Corona vaccines, based on the Fiqh view of the purposes, and based on the provisions of necessity and impossibility, and that if it is possible to reach a sufficient amount of community immunity by urging and advice, it is the first of the mandatory.

Conclusions: Inviting doctors and health authorities to communicate with the Shari'a authorities to know the Shari'a ruling on vaccines, and to form a committee on this. The researchers urge the need to research the provision obliging countries to take vaccines compared to the law.