Leaving off the wearing of silk for treatment out of scrupulousness
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, if a patient is permitted to wear silk for treatment, but he leaves it off out of scrupulousness, is he considered to have left it off because of his treatment, such that sin attaches to him for that?
Answer:
May Allah destroy [the doubt]. Does he mean that the treatment is valid and he left it off? He says: I am safe. He would be sinful in this, because he harmed himself. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, says:[Al-Baqarah 2:195] Is it not permissible for him to harm himself in order to leave off the treatment? And even if the jurists say that the treatment is permissible, what appears, and Allah knows best, is that the treatment is either a right or obligatory.
Honorable Shaykh, if a patient is permitted to wear silk for treatment, but he leaves it off out of scrupulousness, is he considered to have left it off because of his treatment, such that sin attaches to him for that?
Answer:
May Allah destroy [the doubt]. Does he mean that the treatment is valid and he left it off? He says: I am safe. He would be sinful in this, because he harmed himself. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, says:
and do not throw [yourselves] with your [own] hands into destruction [by refraining]
وَلَا تُلْقُوا بِأَيْدِيكُمْ إِلَى التَّهْلُكَةِ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 014 من 123 / شرح كتاب زاد المستقنع / الصلاة / شروط الصلاة / صالح الفوزان / الفقه / كبار العلماء — youtube.com (54:01)
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