[peakyfblinder]

My question today to you is: Do you own your body?
According to the Islamic view, the body, like the soul, is a "gift" from God; therefore, a human being does not possess absolute ownership of his or her body. But, the ownership of human beings on their bodies can be described as a kind of "stewardship". Accordingly, any kind of dissection or mutilation of the corpse is forbidden, even with the informed consent of the dead or his/her relatives. The exception of this principle is when such procedures are necessary for saving the lives of other persons.

It was interpreted as forbidden by modern scholars as a thing such as consent to preserve organisms was not a practice at the time of revelation and therefore the specific subject was not mentioned. However it is forbidden to harm the body reasoning you are not it's owner, it belongs to the all mighty. It was said in such a way obviously to keep people away from harming themselves, further they say that on the day of resurrection you will rise and therefore you need your body, reasoning that it's forbidden to dissect parts of a corpse- this too I believe is a misinterpretation of the according verses in the Quran as we turn to dust anyways. Culturally many Muslims mourn their dead for 40 days, however according to Islam it should be only 3 days - this shows that not a lot of importance is given to the dead body. Logically if we are to believe that there is an afterlife, it would be out souls passing over and not our bodies. We have to consider that the people of that time were simple and ordinary folk, mainly uneducated. So to instill the fear of god into them so that they do good and stay away from harming themselves by telling them it's not their body to begin with and therefore they should never harm themselves through substances or physical injuries is just a means towards the greater good.

It is known that Prophet Muhammad pbuh was an exceptionally intelligent human being, if you study him you'll realize he was a master in human psychology as well. A lot of his day to day activities have been "recorded", so it must be understood that if he said or did something on one occasion it was said or done according to those circumstances. You can't take those occurrences and make them universal as he had been dealing with individuals according to their own level of understanding. So how he would make one thing clear to one person over the other would differ.