A panel of Islamic clerics held in Qatar recently ruled unanimously that there is no evidence in the Islamic law, or Sharia, that would permit the so-called mercy killing of a critically ill patient who has no hope of recovery.
The scholars stressed that, according to the Islamic teachings, any body who facilitates such life termination in the name of mercy killing is murderer who deserves the penalty imposed on deliberate killing.
The Qatari newspaper Al Raya cited some Muslim jurors as saying that that mercy killing of a hopeless patient is prohibited even if the patient or his relatives request that from his doctor because no body has the right of terminating life except God. Any doctor who commits such an action in response to a request by the patient or his relatives or out of sympathy, as described in medicine, will be considered as a deliberate killer.
This doctor will subject himself to death sentence for violating the religious and Sharia rules and the humanitarian, moral and professional ethics -- Albawaba.com
