306.1: Survey of the advice given to Muslim kidney graft recipients by Muslim nephrologists about religious rites with potential medical risk.

Background: Muslim renal transplant recipients often ask their physicians if performing certain religious obligations may be harmful to their health. Permissibility as advised by an expert Muslim physician is considered as being religiously accepted waiving of such rites. Some rites are religiously obligatory e.g. fasting Ramadans (unless sick) and performing pilgrimage once in a lifetime (unless unable to do so). Some rites are non-obligatory...