There is a flowing spring that people visit to seek healing from it, and everyone who bathes in it is cured. Is this a prescribed practice?
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The questioner : In some countries, there are spring waters, and some people specialize in certain springs, saying that they are a cure for diseases. The sick come to them and bathe in them several times and are cured, then they return... What is the ruling on this, O Shaykh?
The Shaykh : There is nothing wrong with it.
The questioner : Is it not prohibited?
The Shaykh : What?
The student: Is it not prohibited?
The Shaykh : It is not prohibited unless they believe that there is something in it, an idol or a dead person, that cures.
The questioner : They say that the water of such-and-such a spring contains a cure.
The Shaykh : This is possible. There may be substances in this water that cure a person, entering the pores of the body and curing him.
The questioner : This leads to them believing in something else.
The Shaykh : And what is the other thing? What is the other thing?
The questioner : They believe that the water itself has an effect.
The Shaykh : What about the other medicines?
The questioner : Yes?
The Shaykh : And the other medicines, is it possible that they believe this belief?
The questioner : It is possible, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Fine, there is nothing wrong with it. Even here in the Peninsula, some springs contain medicine, being comprised of sulfur or things that benefit the body. Now, if you have pain in your joints and you immerse them in hot, warm water, will it soften for you or not?
The questioner : It will soften.
The Shaykh : There is nothing wrong with it.
The questioner : Is it not prohibited?
The Shaykh : What?
The student: Is it not prohibited?
The Shaykh : It is not prohibited unless they believe that there is something in it, an idol or a dead person, that cures.
The questioner : They say that the water of such-and-such a spring contains a cure.
The Shaykh : This is possible. There may be substances in this water that cure a person, entering the pores of the body and curing him.
The questioner : This leads to them believing in something else.
The Shaykh : And what is the other thing? What is the other thing?
The questioner : They believe that the water itself has an effect.
The Shaykh : What about the other medicines?
The questioner : Yes?
The Shaykh : And the other medicines, is it possible that they believe this belief?
The questioner : It is possible, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Fine, there is nothing wrong with it. Even here in the Peninsula, some springs contain medicine, being comprised of sulfur or things that benefit the body. Now, if you have pain in your joints and you immerse them in hot, warm water, will it soften for you or not?
The questioner : It will soften.