Is a patient’s reliance on a doctor with the intention of seeking healing a type of shirk (associating partners with Allah)?
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Question:
He asks: Is a patient’s reliance on a doctor with the intention of receiving healing considered a type of shirk (associating partners with Allah)?
Answer:
If he relies on the doctor, then yes, it is a type of shirk (associating partners with Allah). But if he believes that the doctor is a cause and that Allah is the One who heals, and that the doctor and the medicine are merely causes, then there is nothing wrong with that.
He asks: Is a patient’s reliance on a doctor with the intention of receiving healing considered a type of shirk (associating partners with Allah)?
Answer:
If he relies on the doctor, then yes, it is a type of shirk (associating partners with Allah). But if he believes that the doctor is a cause and that Allah is the One who heals, and that the doctor and the medicine are merely causes, then there is nothing wrong with that.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل تعلق المريض بالطبيب بقصد الشفاء نوعا من الشرك؟ لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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