Sources close to the Saudi royal family told Adnkronos International about the “suspicious” disappearance of King Fahd from public scene in the last ten days. At the same time, the sources have noted frantic activity involving the Seven Sudaris – the seven sons of King Abdul Aziz’s wife, who hailed from Saudi Arabia’s Sudari tribe, around whom the succession question revolves – King Fahd and Defence Minister Prince Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz are two of the most powerful Sudari sevens.
Abdullah seems likely to remain the main beneficiary of internal Sudari squabbling, and already three years ago, he set up a Royal Council including all the 65 sons of the late King Abdul Aziz to settle all disputes related to the monarchy.
It is believed that Abdullah is more acceptable to the majority of the Royal Council members than any other candidate. Hower, the succession is unlikely to be smooth and a new phase of conflict could start in oil-rich Saudi Arabia…link
Just to keep things fair and balanced, there has been buzz that “King” Fahd has been “clinically dead” for years, and that his body has merely been kept alive while the “princes” work out their feuds and arrange the necessary tragic accidents for the losers.
I am not sure what significance to attach to this one seeping into the media, it could be that for some technical reason, the body preservation process has reached a critical point and become unwieldy, and possibly distasteful even to the medical personnel employed by the “princes,” in any event, I hope that the Arabian Resistance will seize any day there is to seize.
call deLay, call Frist…duhbya even…we got a problem!
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King Fahd is in the Promised Land!
Oui – Liberté – Egalité – Fraternité
Anybody know what Islam’s position is on death with dignity vs. tubular purgatory…?
You may be able to find somebody who has nixed it, but you will have to do some looking…
I feel quite confident that medical decisions regarding King Fahd are not now nor have they ever been made for religious reasons.
It is for this reason that Muslim jurists, the Ulema, have adopted the view that it is permissible for the patient in an irreversible vegetative state, either through a prior living will or his immediate family or supreme legal authority (hakim al-shar`), to refuse any treatment that simply prolongs the patient’s miserable condition. The point is explicitly made clear that in the eyes of Muslim public it is pointless and even degrading to intervene medically in the nature’s course towards an imminent death. On the basis of the religious and moral duty of rejection of harm, if it is reasonably determined, at least by three consultant physicians that pursuing a particular course of treatment is proportionally more harmful than allowing the nature to take its course, then it is obligatory to stop the treatment.link
This act is Islamically forbidden for it encompasses a positive role on the part of the physician to end the life of the patient and hasten his death via lethal injection, electric shock, a sharp weapon or any other way. This is an act of killing, and, killing is a major sin and thus forbidden in Islam, the religion of pure mercy.
As for the suspension of medical treatment via preventing the patient from his due medication which is, from a medical perspective, thought to be useless, this is permissible and sometimes it is even recommended. Thus, the physician can do this for the sake of the patient’s comfort and the relief of his family. Nothing is wrong in this, Insha’ Allah (Allah willing).
It is highly stressed here that medical treatment is deemed non-obligatory by the majority of Muslim scholars and the founders of the famous schools of Islamic Jurisprudence. Rather, to them, it is permissible. Only a few number of Muslim scholars maintain that it is obligatory, as said by some followers of Imam Ahmad and Ash-Shafi`i. Also, others maintain that applying medical treatment is commendable and preferable. link
I must kowtow to your superior googlemanship!
Fascinating… overall, at least on this issue, Islam seems to be more progressive than Evangelical Christianity…
OK, stupid statement, amd I can’t believe that I just said it…
“Saudi-Occupied”? I think I read something about this at one time, but the Saudis have been there ever since I became aware of the place… although I know that it used to be just Arabia.
Were they handed the country in some sort of deal with (most likely) the British?
It was Arabia. Like you don’t have enough to do, 🙂 google around sometime and read up on the history of the region. There are worse ways to spend an afternoon, and most of us have some unpleasant task we need to put off – reading about the Saudis can help you put off several tasks at once!
lol, thanks. I’ll look him up… I think I sort of did so once, and probably for the same reason, but I never studied it or really followed it up.
It doesn’t take much to get me to procrastinate on doing what I should be doing, so this will work!