The ruling on going to fortune-tellers and sorcerers for treatment
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Question:
Peace be upon you. Is it permissible for me to initiate, or rather, to use a device or papers? To obtain treatment, even if I do not believe in it and it is not a treatment, for an illness that has afflicted me for years, consisting of functional disorders, states of anxiety, and constant sadness, which has led me to distance myself from Allah and neglect voluntary prayers, accompanied by a feeling of showing off when praying or singing.
Answer:
It is not permissible to ask fortune-tellers, sorcerers, or magicians; it is not permissible to go to them, ask them, or seek treatment from them. This is a matter that is not permissible; it is forbidden. As for treatment, praise be to Allah, Allah has not sent down a disease without sending down a cure for it. You should rely on Allah, increase in the remembrance of Allah the Exalted, increase in supplication, and seek treatment with permissible medicines. Treatment with permissible medicines is the way. As for forbidden medicines, shirk (associating partners with Allah), magic, and going to fortune-tellers and sorcerers, this is absolutely and categorically not permissible. There is no exception. It is never permissible, not by phone, not by any other means.
Peace be upon you. Is it permissible for me to initiate, or rather, to use a device or papers? To obtain treatment, even if I do not believe in it and it is not a treatment, for an illness that has afflicted me for years, consisting of functional disorders, states of anxiety, and constant sadness, which has led me to distance myself from Allah and neglect voluntary prayers, accompanied by a feeling of showing off when praying or singing.
Answer:
It is not permissible to ask fortune-tellers, sorcerers, or magicians; it is not permissible to go to them, ask them, or seek treatment from them. This is a matter that is not permissible; it is forbidden. As for treatment, praise be to Allah, Allah has not sent down a disease without sending down a cure for it. You should rely on Allah, increase in the remembrance of Allah the Exalted, increase in supplication, and seek treatment with permissible medicines. Treatment with permissible medicines is the way. As for forbidden medicines, shirk (associating partners with Allah), magic, and going to fortune-tellers and sorcerers, this is absolutely and categorically not permissible. There is no exception. It is never permissible, not by phone, not by any other means.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 13 من 13 / شرح العقيدة الطحاوية / لا نصدق كاهنا ولا عرافا / صالح الفوزان / العقيدة / كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:03:19)
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