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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Necessities permit the prohibited, but does this imply the permissibility of breaking sorcery with similar sorcery?

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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, there is a principle, which is that necessities permit the prohibited. Does this imply the permissibility of breaking sorcery with similar sorcery if one is compelled to do so?

Answer:
My brother, this is not a necessity. We have alternatives other than sorcery. Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) did not make our treatment lie in what He has forbidden us. This is treatment, whereas eating carrion is saving a life. There is a difference between treatment and eating. Life depends on eating, and there is nothing else here. There is nothing other than this carrion, and the person is dying.
As for treatment, praise be to Allah, there are many types of treatment, the greatest of which is the Qur'an and the lawful ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation). There are permissible medicines used to break sorcery. The greatest treatment is the Qur'an, reciting the Qur'an, and the lawful ruqyah. So Allah did not make us in need of sorcery, and sorcery is kufr (disbelief). Does a person treat with disbelief? This is not permissible. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [272 /1350] الضرورات تبيح المحظورات فهل يؤخذ من هذا جواز فك السحر بسحر مثله؟ الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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