Comparing patience with illness and seeking ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation)
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, which is better: patience with illness or seeking ruqyah?
Answer:
Patience is better, without doubt. Ruqyah is permissible. Praise be to Allah, treatment is permissible. Treatment is not obligatory nor recommended; it is merely permissible. If you seek treatment, you have taken the permissible course. If you are patient and rely on Allah, you have taken the better and more excellent course. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, which is better: patience with illness or seeking ruqyah?
Answer:
Patience is better, without doubt. Ruqyah is permissible. Praise be to Allah, treatment is permissible. Treatment is not obligatory nor recommended; it is merely permissible. If you seek treatment, you have taken the permissible course. If you are patient and rely on Allah, you have taken the better and more excellent course. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 31 من 60 / شرح كتاب قرة عيون الموحدين / صالح الفوزان / العقيدة / كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:07:51)
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