What is the ruling on piercing the ear of a newborn and hanging a copper ring in it, believing that it will keep the newborn alive?

Question:
The questioner says: Among the people of my tribe, there is a custom where if a woman loses several children in succession, she pierces the ear of the new baby and hangs a copper ring in it, claiming that it will keep the baby alive. What is the ruling? May Allah bless you.

Answer:
This is a false practice of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance (jahiliyyah) and a false belief. This action is not permissible because it is a form of hanging amulets (tamimah) to ward off the evil eye and to ward off illness.
This is part of the religion of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance (jahiliyyah) that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) invalidated in his saying: "Whoever hangs an amulet, Allah will not complete his supplication." This is a curse upon him. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said in the second narration: "Whoever hangs an amulet has committed shirk (associating partners with Allah)." He (peace and blessings be upon him) saw a man wearing a ring or a ring of brass and asked, "What is this?" He said, "It is for the weakness, meaning the fever. One wears this ring or this thread to ward off the fever, to ward off the fever. He believes that it repels the fever." So he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: , and if you die while it is on you, you will never succeed. It is obligatory to rely upon Allah the Exalted and Majestic, and it is obligatory to abandon these superstitions and the customs of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance (jahiliyyah).
Abandoning these customs—hanging rings, hanging threads, hanging amulets—all of this is among the matters of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance (jahiliyyah) that contradict the creed, the creed of tawhid (the oneness of Allah). Islam came to invalidate these things because they undermine the creed, they undermine tawhid (the oneness of Allah). It is obligatory for Muslims to reject them and to be extremely cautious of them.