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Ruling on cauterization as a way of curing epilepsy

Question:

An epileptic woman is possessed by a female Jinn. When the Jinn is beaten, she refuses to depart from the Muslim woman’s body. Is it permissible in this case to burn the Muslim woman with a firebrand so that the female jinni will leave her body?

Answer:

It is absolutely Haram (prohibited) to use this method, because only Allah has the right to punish with fire.

Muftis

• Chairman : Shaykh Abdul-Aziz ibn Baz
• Deputy Chairman : Shaykh Abdul-Razzaq Al-Afifi
• Members :
  1. Shaykh Abdullah ibn Ghudayyan
  2. Shaykh Abdullah ibn Qa'ud

• Published :

  Safar 04, 1442 | 19th Sep, 2020
• Estimated reading time :

  1 min read
• Source :

  Fatawa Al-Lajnah Al-Da'imah, Fatwa no. 7501, Question 4
• Treatments   Fatwas
• Updated :

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