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Sheikh Mahmud Ashur, the former Deputy of al-Azhar and a member of the Islamic Research Council, expressed this stance when he said, “The debate over brain death is a medical, not religious, matter. Religious law sees death as the spirit’s exit from the body and the end of life in the body. As for brain death, no cleric should give an opinion; this is for doctors.”16 Sheikh Ashur placed the burden of defining death on doctors, adding that they are the real cause of the delay in the law since they cannot agree on the definition.17
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