The religion of Islam strongly believes in the principle of saving human lives. According to A. Sachedina in his Transplant Proceedings article, "Islamic Views on Organ Transplantation, "…the majority of the Muslim scholars, belonging to various schools of Islamic law, have invoked the principle of priority of saving human life and have permitted the organ transplant as a necessity to procure that noble end."

An in-depth article about organ donation from an Islamic perspective appeared in the New York Organ Donor Network publication, On The Beat , in the fall of 2003. Sheikh Omar S. Abu-Namous, Imam of the Islamic Cultural Center of New York in Manhattan , wrote: “…Islamic juristic academies and fatwa (juristic opinion) bodies in the Muslim world, including the Islamic Organization for Medical Sciences based in Kuwait , are agreed on the permissibility and lawfulness of donating organs to patients whose survival or cure vitally depends on them.”

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