Does the one who performs cauterization receive a reward?
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Fatwa number ( 13690 )
Q: Your Eminence, I request your fatwa on treatment by cauterization: is it lawful or forbidden? I am an elderly man who treats people by cauterization, and I do not know whether I am right or wrong. I ask you to issue a ruling on this, as I do not take a fee for it. May Allah protect you and make you beneficial to the Muslim community.
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Sahih Muslim 2205b
May Allah reward you
Sahih al-Bukhari 5704
Q: Your Eminence, I request your fatwa on treatment by cauterization: is it lawful or forbidden? I am an elderly man who treats people by cauterization, and I do not know whether I am right or wrong. I ask you to issue a ruling on this, as I do not take a fee for it. May Allah protect you and make you beneficial to the Muslim community.
A:
If there is any effective remedy amongst your remedies, these are (three): Cupping, drinking of honey and cauterisation with the help of fire. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) had said: As for myself I do not like cauterisation.
إن كان في شيء من أدويتكم خير ففي شرطة محجم، أو شربة من عسل، أو لذعة بنار، وما أحب أن أكتويMay Allah reward you
but I do not like to be (cauterized) branded.
وما أحب أن أكتوي
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