parurfeasim a Do Pests ate ami Bee Bietbe 20 paar, 160 Question; appears that atleast some ofthe COVID vaccines being developed use cell lines derived from fetal tissue, Would it be halal to take the vaceine? hnps.lwu, z.orginews/2020/06/ahortion-opponents-protest-cov 19: Answert in the name of Allah, The Most Gracious, The Most Mereiful ‘The following fatwa is issued by Darul Ifa’, Darul Qasim in conjunction with the Darul (Qasim medical group. This fatwa is for Muslims inthe U.S.A. Typically vaccines are made fom weakened version of "live or killed virus” causing the disease, This weakened version of the vn is injected into a person so that the persons own immune system ean mount a espons, Since the virus is weakened the person may get mild illness from the vaccine, which is typically seltimited and rarely as harmfil as the disease itself, Ths strategy isnot being sed for SARS-CoV.2 vaccine development because it is not considered the safest approach, The vaccine curently in evelopment use different methods to stimulate one’s immune system to fight SAL cov-2. liv UHE guEST Fon PLONE RNOWLEDSEparurfeasi m Cp hme Bat Bie. 200 (One approach isto introduce an important part ofthe SARS-CoV-2 virus, ealled the spike protein, into people so that their immune system recognizes the protein as foreign ‘and then mounts an immune response by generating antibodies against the spike protein, These antibodies then protect the person from SARS-CoV-2 infection Interestingly, there is more than one way to generate the spike protein. The vaccines ‘currently in development by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna package something called ‘mRNA (a synthetic messenger RNA, genetic code) which instructs the body’s own cells to produce the spike protein. These vaccines are permissible for Muslims, Other vaccines, however, use diferent classes of killed viruses as vetors to deliver the spike protein to human tissues. This vacine type consss ofa ready-made protein forthe iumune system to recognize as foreign and then attack it by generating antibodies. Some of the vaccine manufacturers produce these proteins using human cll that have been rove from aborted fetuses, These cells are from fetuses that were aborted several decades ago, however, due to something called cell culturing, these immortalized ell lines are kept alive and are routinely used in research today. ‘The vaccines eure in ‘development by AstraZeneca and Jonson & Johnson make ws (llegedy) ofthese aborted human fetal cells. Using aborted human cells to develop vaccines is against iv tHe guest FOR Mone RNOWLEDgEparutfeasin ote Pass 3 Coch im Bier Dae 200- Rar aT, 12 Islamic Bioethies. Muslims may not take vaccines which are derived from aborted fetuses considering the permissi le alternatives mentioned above. Allah knows best. mune Shaykh Amin Kholwadia Darul 1a’, Darul Qasim iin tHe QUEST Fon MORE KNOWLEDSE