The ruling on wearing a thread to ward off scorpion stings

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Question:
This questioner asks and says: There is a thread that some people wear, and they claim that it numbs the scorpion so that it cannot sting the person wearing it. Is this one of the amulets that are prohibited?

Answer:
Yes. The one who wears a thread to ward off calamity or remove it from scorpions and others, or to seek protection with it, there is no doubt that this is among the things the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) prohibited.

So he saw a man with a thread on his hand for fever

فقد رأى رجلا في يده خيط من الحمى

He said: What is this? He said: It is a protection against fever. So the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to him: Remove it, for if you were to die with it on you, you would never succeed.

قال ما هذه أو ما هذا؟ قال من الواهمة يعني يقي من الحمى فقال له النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم انزعه فإنك لو مت وهو عليك ما أفلحت أبدا

These suspended items, amulets, and charms are all not permissible. It is obligatory to place reliance on Allah. Yes. The Shari'ah ruqyah by reciting over the sick person and blowing on him, this is prescribed. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) performed ruqyah and was subjected to ruqyah. Ruqyah is prescribed from the Book of Allah and from the Shari'ah supplications. As for suspending threads, charms, amulets, and talismans, all of these are matters of shirk (associating partners with Allah). Yes.

The presenter:
May Allah reward you.

Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-47-منهج أهل السنة والجماعة|صالح الفوزان|العام|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (14:35)

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