The ruling on cauterization for one who has tried all permissible treatments
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Question:
The questioner says: 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 undergo cauterization? Does his cauterization exclude him from the seventy thousand who will enter Paradise without reckoning or punishment? And does his cauterization also diminish his reliance upon Allah and his tawhid (the oneness of Allah)?
Answer:
Cauterization is permissible; cauterization is permissible, but it is disliked (makruh) because of the pain it causes in the fire. So if one undergoes it, he has done a permissible act, but it does not make him one of the seventy thousand. Because he has done a disliked act, and the seventy thousand now avoid disliked acts, recommended acts, and some permissible acts. So he does not meet the rank of the seventy thousand now, but he may be among the righteous or among the good. As for these, the singers. These are the isolated ones, and no one is aware of them except those who are aware of their abnormality. And among them is abandoning the use of wands, because it is a disliked act.
The questioner says: 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 undergo cauterization? Does his cauterization exclude him from the seventy thousand who will enter Paradise without reckoning or punishment? And does his cauterization also diminish his reliance upon Allah and his tawhid (the oneness of Allah)?
Answer:
Cauterization is permissible; cauterization is permissible, but it is disliked (makruh) because of the pain it causes in the fire. So if one undergoes it, he has done a permissible act, but it does not make him one of the seventy thousand. Because he has done a disliked act, and the seventy thousand now avoid disliked acts, recommended acts, and some permissible acts. So he does not meet the rank of the seventy thousand now, but he may be among the righteous or among the good. As for these, the singers. These are the isolated ones, and no one is aware of them except those who are aware of their abnormality. And among them is abandoning the use of wands, because it is a disliked act.
Source
شرح قرة عيون الموحدين في تحقيق دعوة الأنبياء والمرسلين، تابع باب فضل التوحيد وما يكفر من الذنوب — islamhouse.com (31:00)
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