The Ruling on Rising Above the Throne and Its Connection to the Rank of the Seventy Thousand

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A man was afflicted with an illness and tried all permissible treatments, but they did not benefit him. Is it permissible for him to rise above the Throne? Does his rising above the Throne exclude him from the seventy thousand who enter Paradise without reckoning or punishment? And does his rising above the Throne also diminish his reliance upon Allah and his oneness of Allah?

Answer:
So rising above the Throne is permissible; the ruling is ready. However, it is directed toward what is in it of hastening to the Fire, if Allah wills, and because of the attribution of the Fire to it. So whoever rises above the Throne has done a permissible act, but it does not make him join the seventy thousand, because he has done a disliked act. The seventy thousand are those who avoided disliked acts and forbidden acts, and some permissible acts. He does not join the rank of the seventy thousand, but he may be among the righteous or among the good. As for the seventy thousand, they are among the near ones; they are among the near ones, and no one joins them except one who is distinguished by their characteristics, among which is leaving off rising above the Throne, because it is a disliked act.