What is the ruling on a patient isolating himself from people for seven days at the request of his healer?
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The questioner:
A questioner says: We have people in our country who treat patients, and they ask the patient to isolate himself from people in a dark room for a period of
The Shaykh:
What?
The questioner:
He says: We have people in our country who treat patients, and they ask the patient to isolate himself from people in a dark room for seven days. Is this permissible?
The Shaykh:
I do not know of this at all. It prevents him from praying with the Muslims, and it may cause him great harm. So I do not know of this at all. I do not know of this in medicine. But if it is tried in a way that does not involve
abandoning an obligation, because he is sick and unable to pray in congregation, and this is tried and it benefits him, we do not know what is required of him, because most medicine is based on trials, not on hearsay. If it is tried and it does not involve abandoning an obligation, there is no harm. But if it involves abandoning an obligation, such as abandoning the congregation while he is able to attend the congregation in the mosque, then it is not permissible. Because this is mostly imaginations and suspicions, suspicions without clear evidence. They are only suspicions, or guesses, or trials. If this trial prevents him from an obligation or leads him to a forbidden act, it is not permissible, correct?
A questioner says: We have people in our country who treat patients, and they ask the patient to isolate himself from people in a dark room for a period of
The Shaykh:
What?
The questioner:
He says: We have people in our country who treat patients, and they ask the patient to isolate himself from people in a dark room for seven days. Is this permissible?
The Shaykh:
I do not know of this at all. It prevents him from praying with the Muslims, and it may cause him great harm. So I do not know of this at all. I do not know of this in medicine. But if it is tried in a way that does not involve
abandoning an obligation, because he is sick and unable to pray in congregation, and this is tried and it benefits him, we do not know what is required of him, because most medicine is based on trials, not on hearsay. If it is tried and it does not involve abandoning an obligation, there is no harm. But if it involves abandoning an obligation, such as abandoning the congregation while he is able to attend the congregation in the mosque, then it is not permissible. Because this is mostly imaginations and suspicions, suspicions without clear evidence. They are only suspicions, or guesses, or trials. If this trial prevents him from an obligation or leads him to a forbidden act, it is not permissible, correct?
Source
قناة «فضيلة الشيخ ابن باز Alsheikh Binbaz»، 202 ما حكم احتجاب المريض عن الناس سبعة أيام بطلب من يعالجه؟ للإمام ابن باز — youtube.com
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