Evaluation of Biotechnology and Challenges to Islamic Fiqh =بائیو ٹیکنالوجی کا ارتقاء اورفقہ اسلامی کو درپیش چیلنجز

Biotechnology is an emerging technology which has positive and negative impacts on human health food and agriculture. A key to its advancement was the discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953, leading to numerous applications, particularly in forensics, medicine and agriculture. In the modern era there are various Challenges to Islamic Fiqh and Shariah due to the advancement of this technology & its applications in different areas such as organ transplants, manipulating human embryos, using animal in research, Xenotransplantation and use of biological war weapons while the fundamental aim of this technology is to meet human needs or demands to improve the quality of life. This article aims to explore these issues and its Challenges in the light of Islamic Shariah whether the Shariah maxims cover these contemporary challenging issues and guide the humanity by determining a criterion for Halal & Haram and providing ethical code to its followers