By Moosaa Richardson (based on the works of Sh Muhammad ibn ‘Abdil-Wahhaab and Sh Uthaymeen
The Relationship Between Medical Quackery and Shirk (Polytheism)
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However, sometimes it is merely baseless presumptions and imagination at work, when a sick person only assumes the treatment is effective (in a medically unproven way), and thus he relaxes and imagines that he is recovering, having a positive psychological effect on him (i.e. placebos), perhaps making him feel genuinely happier, and thereafter the illness even goes away. Even in such a case, it is still not permissible to rely upon such treatments, nor is it allowed to consider them (genuine) medicine. This is to keep the people from giving in to baseless presumptions and illusion. Thus, wearing bracelets, strings, and similar things to alleviate illness or prevent it has been forbidden. Whatever is not an established spiritual or medical means of recovery is not allowed to be considered a genuine means of recovery. That is because this actually includes a kind of infringement upon the (exclusive) Dominion and Authority of Allaah, the Most High, and ascribing partners to Him, in how others are considered to share with Allaah, the Most High, in providing the legitimate and effective means (for recovery or maintenance of good health).
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