What is the ruling on treating with popular natural medicines that have been tried?
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The questioner : Look, I mentioned to you that medicines are divided into lawful and natural.
The Shaykh : Medicines, yes.
The questioner : And it may fall, I mean, treating may fall under the category of permissible or disliked, or even forbidden. For example, you sometimes find
The Shaykh : this cauterization. Cauterization is what we divided into this classification. Yes.
The questioner : Cauterization, yes. And we may find in some countries, despite the difference in their languages, that they treat with their medicines. I mean, you follow the school of thought that this medicine is beneficial. And knowing that you find one person, for example, who uses this medicine and does not know, he does not cite from the Qur'an or anything. So from this aspect, is it possible that it is permissible, meaning it falls under the category of permissibility, if we find benefit in it and we testify to it?
The Shaykh : Yes, we mentioned yesterday that for something to be a medicine, it must be known either by a text of the Shari'ah, such as, what?
The questioner : Praise be to Allah, lion, my brother.
The Shaykh : Or by experience, and this is very common. Even the current sterilized medicines and those containing drugs and such are all based on experience. No revelation was sent down to them regarding this.
The Shaykh : Medicines, yes.
The questioner : And it may fall, I mean, treating may fall under the category of permissible or disliked, or even forbidden. For example, you sometimes find
The Shaykh : this cauterization. Cauterization is what we divided into this classification. Yes.
The questioner : Cauterization, yes. And we may find in some countries, despite the difference in their languages, that they treat with their medicines. I mean, you follow the school of thought that this medicine is beneficial. And knowing that you find one person, for example, who uses this medicine and does not know, he does not cite from the Qur'an or anything. So from this aspect, is it possible that it is permissible, meaning it falls under the category of permissibility, if we find benefit in it and we testify to it?
The Shaykh : Yes, we mentioned yesterday that for something to be a medicine, it must be known either by a text of the Shari'ah, such as, what?
The questioner : Praise be to Allah, lion, my brother.
The Shaykh : Or by experience, and this is very common. Even the current sterilized medicines and those containing drugs and such are all based on experience. No revelation was sent down to them regarding this.
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قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، 2498 - 4600 ماحكم التداوي بالأدوية الشعبية الطبيعية المجربة؟ ابن عثيمين — youtube.com
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