A flower resembling algae that, after a week, has a smell like intoxicants after preparation; it is said to be a cure for many diseases. What is your opinion?
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The questioner : Your Eminence, may Allah preserve and protect you. I say: Recently, especially in the Hijaz, something has appeared called "al-Zahrah" (the flower). It is a type of algae oil placed in water. After a week, they naturally place, before this flower, tea, sugar, and water for it.
The Shaykh : And where do they put it?
The questioner : They put it in the middle of the tea, water, and sugar, and it remains for a full week.
The Shaykh : And what is it that is put in?
The questioner : Like the spleen, something like the spleen; they call it al-Zahrah.
The Shaykh : Spleen? No, tell me: a tree.
The questioner : Yes, they call it al-Zahrah, and it is a type of spleen. If it remains for a full week, Shaykh, it has a smell like intoxicants, approximately. So they say that it is a medicine for all diseases. It has started to spread now in the Hijaz to a very great extent, to the point that people are booking for a full year. They say that it is not permissible to sell it, but rather it must be distributed for free. What is the ruling on this action, Shaykh?
The Shaykh : I have not heard of this. I have not heard of this.
The questioner : It appeared, and it has been six months.
The Shaykh : And if this is true, it will close all the hospitals, did you understand? As long as it is a cure for every ailment, yes.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Sugar. If the one afflicted with the disease of diabetes eats it, it will rise in him and he will perish. What?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : The one afflicted with diabetes.
The questioner : Yes, I do.
The Shaykh : Especially.
The questioner : Yes, I do.
The Shaykh : Then, praise be to Allah, it is gone from us. We have found one now.
The questioner : ... Is there no harm in healing?
The Shaykh : By Allah, my brother, look, the thing that is built on other than knowledge, do not believe in it. Do not believe in it.
The questioner : And if it is proven by experiments, Shaykh?
The Shaykh : I do not know. Did you try it?
The questioner : No, I did not try it.
The Shaykh : Did any of your relatives try it?
The questioner : Yes, I do.
The Shaykh : Afflicted with what?
The questioner : With diabetes.
The Shaykh : And were they cured of it?
The questioner : They say: It decreased a lot.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : It decreased a lot.
The Shaykh : If a person stops eating sweets and increases drinking bitter things, it decreases. Sometimes they say to the one afflicted with diabetes that it decreases more than necessary. They say: Stop. Because the one afflicted with the disease of diabetes is unbalanced; it rises a lot sometimes and falls a lot. So discipline is necessary.
Yes. In any case, I do not know anything about this, and I do not point to it. It has no foundations. It is not something that can be accepted. Yes.
The Shaykh : And where do they put it?
The questioner : They put it in the middle of the tea, water, and sugar, and it remains for a full week.
The Shaykh : And what is it that is put in?
The questioner : Like the spleen, something like the spleen; they call it al-Zahrah.
The Shaykh : Spleen? No, tell me: a tree.
The questioner : Yes, they call it al-Zahrah, and it is a type of spleen. If it remains for a full week, Shaykh, it has a smell like intoxicants, approximately. So they say that it is a medicine for all diseases. It has started to spread now in the Hijaz to a very great extent, to the point that people are booking for a full year. They say that it is not permissible to sell it, but rather it must be distributed for free. What is the ruling on this action, Shaykh?
The Shaykh : I have not heard of this. I have not heard of this.
The questioner : It appeared, and it has been six months.
The Shaykh : And if this is true, it will close all the hospitals, did you understand? As long as it is a cure for every ailment, yes.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Sugar. If the one afflicted with the disease of diabetes eats it, it will rise in him and he will perish. What?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : The one afflicted with diabetes.
The questioner : Yes, I do.
The Shaykh : Especially.
The questioner : Yes, I do.
The Shaykh : Then, praise be to Allah, it is gone from us. We have found one now.
The questioner : ... Is there no harm in healing?
The Shaykh : By Allah, my brother, look, the thing that is built on other than knowledge, do not believe in it. Do not believe in it.
The questioner : And if it is proven by experiments, Shaykh?
The Shaykh : I do not know. Did you try it?
The questioner : No, I did not try it.
The Shaykh : Did any of your relatives try it?
The questioner : Yes, I do.
The Shaykh : Afflicted with what?
The questioner : With diabetes.
The Shaykh : And were they cured of it?
The questioner : They say: It decreased a lot.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : It decreased a lot.
The Shaykh : If a person stops eating sweets and increases drinking bitter things, it decreases. Sometimes they say to the one afflicted with diabetes that it decreases more than necessary. They say: Stop. Because the one afflicted with the disease of diabetes is unbalanced; it rises a lot sometimes and falls a lot. So discipline is necessary.
Yes. In any case, I do not know anything about this, and I do not point to it. It has no foundations. It is not something that can be accepted. Yes.