If a person is ordered to have a limb amputated due to a disease that may spread to the rest of his body, and he refuses the amputation, is he considered a suicide?

The questioner:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: A person was ordered to have a limb amputated because of a disease that may spread to the rest of his body, but he refused the amputation and said, "I will be patient, even if it leads to my death." Is this considered suicide or killing oneself?

The Shaykh:
No, treatment is originally permissible; it is neither obligatory nor recommended, it is permissible. If he wishes, he gets treated, and if he wishes, he does not get treated, and he is patient.

The presenter:
May Allah help you.

The Shaykh:
He is not killing himself. However, if he dies from the disease, he has not killed himself. This is something Allah has decreed for him, and he has the right to leave treatment in reliance on Allah, or to be patient with the illness and seek reward. It is not from his action, so it cannot be said that he killed himself. Killing oneself is by one's own action, such as taking something that kills, or wounding oneself, or cutting off a part of one's body. As for the disease, if he dies from it, this is not from his action, but rather it is the decree of Allah and the destiny of Allah. Yes. He has the right to seek treatment for it, and he has the right to leave it. Yes.