The ruling on a patient refraining from wearing silk for treatment out of scrupulousness
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. If a patient is permitted to wear silk for treatment, but he refrains from doing so out of scrupulousness, is he considered to have abandoned the cause of his treatment, such that sin attaches to him for that?
Answer:
By Allah, if wearing the silk is a valid treatment and he refrains from it, he is sinful in that; he is sinful in that because he has harmed himself. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, says:[Al-Baqarah 2:195] Is it not permissible for him to harm himself and abandon the treatment? And even if the jurists say that treatment is permissible, and seeking medical care is permissible, what appears to be the case, and Allah knows best, is that treatment is either recommended or obligatory.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. If a patient is permitted to wear silk for treatment, but he refrains from doing so out of scrupulousness, is he considered to have abandoned the cause of his treatment, such that sin attaches to him for that?
Answer:
By Allah, if wearing the silk is a valid treatment and he refrains from it, he is sinful in that; he is sinful in that because he has harmed himself. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, says:
and do not throw [yourselves] with your [own] hands into destruction [by refraining]
وَلَا تُلْقُوا بِأَيْدِيكُمْ إِلَى التَّهْلُكَةِ
Source
الفوزان -أشرطة- شرح زاد المستقنع مع الأسئلة - 013-كتاب الصلاة - 4- شروط الصلاة - 29-12-20 هـ — archive.org (58:32)
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