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I have gone through the various literature regarding child vaccination and decided not to vaccinate any of my children. Alhamdulillah, they are healthier than children who have got vaccination. Does anyone have any literature on this subject?

I would suggest that you do not read "various literature" regarding anything that involves the health and future of your children. Apply the same principles in acquiring this knowledge, as you would with anything precious. You wouldn't read "various literature" when it comes time to invest your life savings. You wouldn't read "various literature" when it comes time to learn about your deen. You wouldn't read "various literature" when it comes time to defend yourself in court when facing a serious charge. Similarly, don't read "various literature" in this matter either. If you are a medical expert, then evaluate the studies yourself. If you are not, then listen to what the consensus of medical experts have to say in this regard. As long as it is not contradictory with Islam, we are encouraged to adopt expert opinion. Those who refuse to immunize their children, are not only putting them at risk, but increase the risk to the entire society of getting the disease. While there is no way to predict if your child will or will not contract that specific disease, it is established that by immunizing every child the overall occurrence of the disease decreases immensely. Thus getting immunized is not only a personal protection, but (even more importantly!) aids in protecting the entire society.

i also did not vaccinate my children. alhamdlillah they are also more healthy than most other children.

That is not proof of anything. Perhaps you also know of some very old uncles who smoked hookah their entire lives, and are in much better health that does who never touched tobacco. Does that mean anything? When it comes to the health issues (... and nearly anything really), it is statistics which lead one to solid conclusions.

The funny thing about statistics is that humans are generally pretty bad at thinking of things in a statistical manner. Our minds latch on to individual observations, stories, and outcomes which coincide with our 'gut'. For example (no googling allowed!): Assume we have a room full of randomly selected people. At minimum, how many people should be in the room for there to be a 99% chance of two people having the same birthday? Another one: 1 in 100,000 people have a disease, and we have an awesome test which is 99.9% accurate in detecting whether someone has the disease. How likely is it that you have the disease if you test positive?

my doctor also tried his best to make me vaccinate my kids.

Perhaps he was just looking out for the health and well being of his own kids, his neighbors kids, and the kids in his kid's school - when (Allaah forbid!) your kids possibly get sick in the future and an infection exponentially spreads. He deserves some slack, don't blame him dude

vaccination messes with a persons immune system right? if thats teh case then why would you want to do that when a childs immune system is still developing. let it develope naturally like Allah created it to.

Here's an interesting observation: You're not even sure about what a vaccine does, and you're willing to reject expert consensus on the matter? ... And then go on to use the "why mess with Allaah's creation" argument. You do know the outlandish extents to which that one can be used, right?






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