Faith Healing Fitnah - Fair or Faux?

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Re: Faith Healing Fitnah - Fair or Faux?

@psyah

A wave of alternative medicine has hit the Pakistani scene … The Faith Healers - They are like a modernised secularised form of Peer that are going around taking money to practice their healing on people - but what is essentially the matter with this? Can we criticise them when essentially they are only doing things that seem to be similar to what Muslims have always done - such as damm and ruqiya …

Let’s discuss this very obscure matter here …

There is the Placebo factor involved. So it could be beneficial.

Where it is unethical is when they charge for their services, assuming they know what they are doing has no genuine medical effect. i suppose they too must believe they are doing some good and their treatment works, so in that case its not unethical of them. However, it is unethical on the part of those who’s job it is to regulate such practices, as allowing such people to offer such services in lieu of proper medical care is clearly wrong.