Does being excluded from the seventy thousand include one who seeks ruqyah ignorantly of the hadith: "Seventy thousand of my Ummah will enter Paradise without reckoning; they are those who do not seek ruqyah, nor practice divination, nor believe in omens, and upon their Lord they rely"? And does self-ruqyah exclude its practitioner from them? And what is the meaning of "they do not cauterize themselves" and does it apply in our time?

It is permissible to seek ruqyah and medical treatment, as the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, commanded both. Scholars have differed regarding the meaning of "those who do not seek ruqyah": some say they are those who do not seek ruqyah in the manner of the people of Jahiliyyah, who believed that medicines were inherently beneficial. Others say they are those who do not ask others to perform ruqyah on them due to their complete reliance on Allah. Whoever seeks ruqyah while his heart is attached to the reciter is excluded from the seventy thousand. However, whoever seeks ruqyah while entrusting his affair to Allah and believing that the reciter is merely a means, his seeking it does not exclude him from them, according to Ibn Hibban. As for cauterization (al-iktia'), it is treatment by cauterization, and it is practiced now, with specialists in this form of treatment.