The Ruling on Cauterization and Its Effect on Reliance upon Allah and the Seventy Thousand

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 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 performs a permissible act, it does not exclude him from the seventy thousand. Because he performed a disliked act, and the scholars now avoid disliked acts, forbidden acts, and some permissible acts. So he does not meet the criteria of the scholars now. But he may be among the ignorant or among the righteous. As for the scholars now, these are the ones who are seeking to mislead. These are the singers, and no one is ruined except by their ruin, and among that is abandoning the measure, for Allah is the one who is sought.