'Azl marid al-idz 'an amakin al-tajammu' kal-madaris wa mayadin al-'amal

Abstract

This paper was presented to the symposium held by the Islamic Organization for Medical Sciences (IOMS) in Kuwait on AIDS and its social problems during the period 6-8 December 1993. The paper focuses on the Islamic juristic rulings with pertinence to the social interactions of the AIDS patients especially in schools and workspaces. The main thesis of the paper is that AIDS patients should be isolated from such social interactions only if it is medically proven that AIDS can be communicated by just mixing with other people. Only in this case, the juristic rulings of plague will be applicable to the AIDS patients.