Comparing patience with illness and seeking ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation)
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Question:
The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, which is better: patience with illness, or seeking ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation)?
Answer:
Patience is the best, insha'Allah. Ruqyah is permissible. Praise be to Allah, treatment is permissible. Treatment is not obligatory, nor is it recommended; it is merely permissible. So if you seek treatment, you have taken the permissible course. And if you are patient and place your reliance on Allah, you have taken the better and more excellent course. Yes.
The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, which is better: patience with illness, or seeking ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation)?
Answer:
Patience is the best, insha'Allah. Ruqyah is permissible. Praise be to Allah, treatment is permissible. Treatment is not obligatory, nor is it recommended; it is merely permissible. So if you seek treatment, you have taken the permissible course. And if you are patient and place your reliance on Allah, you have taken the better and more excellent course. Yes.
Source
شرح قرة عيون الموحدين في تحقيق دعوة الأنبياء والمرسلين، باب ما جاء في النُّشرة — islamhouse.com (1:07:28)
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