email from Sheikh Jihad Hashim Brown
Peace and blessings,
I will arrange for an official response in its due time. However, as a starter, what I have noticed on the BBC of this exhibit is that it has a entertainment dimension – this is called hatk hurmat al mayyit (rending the dignity of the deceased); which emanates from laqad karramna bani adam (which is understood in the all encompasing sense, i.e. Muslim or otherwise).
What can we divine to be the primary (1-3) motivators for the project? Is it something that medical students absolutely must have access to in order to better save lives?
The reduction of the human being to “matter” alone will ultimately defeat the humanist (read enlightenment) project of human rights; this is a case for the validity of natural law theory – Islam, offering the correct version of a natural law theory.
People who view such things – whether Muslim or non – always walk away feel unsure as to whether what they’ve just done was ethical or not. This alone is very telling.
Peace, jhb
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