The Ruling on Cauterization When There Is a Need
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, a sick woman is complaining of pain in her leg. She has visited doctors and found no benefit from them. She then went to a folk doctor who prescribed cauterization for her, as he suspected she had sciatica. However, she heard the hadith about the seventy thousand who will not be cauterized. Should she be cauterized or not? What is your opinion on this?
Answer:
Cauterization is permissible; cauterization is permissible, especially when there is a need. If no other treatment is found for this illness, she should be cauterized and place her reliance on Allah, because this is acting upon the causes, and this is acting upon the permissible causes, and praise be to Allah. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, a sick woman is complaining of pain in her leg. She has visited doctors and found no benefit from them. She then went to a folk doctor who prescribed cauterization for her, as he suspected she had sciatica. However, she heard the hadith about the seventy thousand who will not be cauterized. Should she be cauterized or not? What is your opinion on this?
Answer:
Cauterization is permissible; cauterization is permissible, especially when there is a need. If no other treatment is found for this illness, she should be cauterized and place her reliance on Allah, because this is acting upon the causes, and this is acting upon the permissible causes, and praise be to Allah. Yes.
Source
75-اللقاء الأسبوعي مع الشيخ صالح الفوزان - 04 — archive.org (30:22)
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