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PETALING JAYA: Vaccination against Covid-19 is permitted under the Islamic Rules on the Use of Vaccines, says the Minister of the Prime Minister’s Department, Datuk Dr. Zulkifli Mohamad Al-Bakri.
He said this was decided during a special meeting of the Muzakarah Committee at the 10th National Council for Islamic Affairs on December 3.
“The meeting decided that the Hukum Penggunaan Vaksin Covid-19 is necessary and should be taken by those groups that the government has decided on. This decision has been presented to the Governing Council.
“In this context, I call on all Malaysians, in particular Muslims, to fully adhere and trust the government’s effort to combat the Covid-19 pandemic through the use of vaccines,” he said in a statement on Wednesday (23 from December).
Zulkifli, the de facto minister of religious affairs, said that the use of vaccines to protect against dangerous diseases is not a strange matter under Islamic law.
He added that this was demonstrated by six previous decisions made by the Muzakarah Committee between 1988 and 2013 on the use of vaccines against rubella (1988), hepatitis B (1988), measles, tuberculosis, whooping cough, diphtheria, tetanus and polio (1989), meningococcal meningitis (2002 and revised in 2014), human papillomavirus (2010) and menveal meningitis (2013).
Zulkifli said that on the international stage, the global fatwa institutions had issued fatwas on the permissibility of the use of vaccines, including al-Azhar al-Sharif and the United Arab Emirates’ National Fatwa Council.
“On the issue of vaccination, it is a government decision. This is because the government needed a decision for the betterment of the people after taking into consideration various factors and obtaining opinions from various experts and authorities,” he added.
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