Given the above, it emerges that, if there is no risk of contagion, isolating victims from their healthy peers is not a necessity in the eyes of Shari’a and the patients can be dealt with in accordance with the approved medical procedures.

Transmission of Acquired Immune-Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) to a healthy individual, in any deliberate manner is Haram (Shari’a proscribed) and is considered among the major evil sins and transgressions.  It also calls for worldly punishment which may vary in accordance with the seriousness of the act and its impact on the health of individuals and society.

If the willful perpetrator’s aim is to spread this vicious disease in society, then this act is considered as ‘hiraba’ (a criminal act directed against humanity) and vicious act of evil-spreading, which warrants one of the sanctions stipulated in the verse of ‘hiraba’: “The punishment of those who wage war against God and His Apostle, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is : execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting of hand and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter;” (Surat-al Ma’idah  Verse.36)

If his intentions, in deliberately transmitting the disease, was to contaminate a specific person, and if the contamination has indeed been effected but the victim of the transmission is still alive, the deliberate transmitter is subjected to appropriate “Ta’azir” sanction (dissuasive punishment as may be decided by Sharia’a judges).  In case of the victim’s death, then death penalty is considered for the transgressor.  In case, however, the transgressor’s intention was to transmit the disease to a specific person but contamination does not take place, the transgressor is liable to Ta’azir penalty.

Considering the fact that transmission of Acquired Immune-Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) only takes place, in the overwhelming majority of cases, at an advanced stage of pregnancy (after the fetus is invested with life) or during delivery, it is therefore not permissible to abort the fetus, in Shari’a view.

In as much as current medical information indicate that there is not certain danger entailing from a mother, victim of AIDS, keeping her child in her custody and suckling it, such a case being comparable to the case of ordinary association and cohabitation, there is no Sharia’a objection to the mother keeping her child in her custody and suckling it, unless there is a medical report to the contrary.

A wife may seek separation from the affected husband, considering that the Acquired Immune-Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a contagious disease which is transmitted mainly through sexual contact.

Acquired Immunodeficiency disease is a considered as terminal in the Shari’a views, if all its symptoms are present and the victim is no longer capable of carrying out ordinary living, and death is imminent.