Is it obligatory for a patient to refrain from consuming foods that the doctor has warned against?
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Question:
May Allah grant you success. Since medication is permissible, if a doctor tells a patient, for example, that this type of food harms your health, is it obligatory for the patient to leave that food?
Answer:
Yes, this is throwing oneself into destruction. Allah the Exalted said:[Al-Baqarah 2:195] So if the doctor tells you that this food or this drink causes you illness or increases it, it is not permissible for you to consume it, because by doing so you are harming yourself. And the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: There is no harm and no reciprocating harm. Yes.
May Allah grant you success. Since medication is permissible, if a doctor tells a patient, for example, that this type of food harms your health, is it obligatory for the patient to leave that food?
Answer:
Yes, this is throwing oneself into destruction. Allah the Exalted said:
and do not throw [yourselves] with your [own] hands into destruction [by refraining]
وَلَا تُلْقُوا بِأَيْدِيكُمْ إِلَى التَّهْلُكَةِ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [561 -2802] هل يجب على المريض أن يمتنع من تناول أطعمة قد حذر منها الطبيب؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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