Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder with Medication and Ruqyah
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says that he suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder. Is it permissible for him to take medication from a psychiatrist, or should he be treated only with the prescribed invocations and ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation)?
Answer:
All of them, all of them, and praise be to Allah. It is treated with ruqyah and it is treated with permissible medications. They are all permissible and beneficial means, by the permission of Allah. Yes.
The presenter:
Yes,
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says that he suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder. Is it permissible for him to take medication from a psychiatrist, or should he be treated only with the prescribed invocations and ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation)?
Answer:
All of them, all of them, and praise be to Allah. It is treated with ruqyah and it is treated with permissible medications. They are all permissible and beneficial means, by the permission of Allah. Yes.
The presenter:
Yes,
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 141/87 شرح زاد المستقنع/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (1:03:20)
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