Treatment and Medication

• What motivates showing off, and what are the reasons and causes of showing off that scholars have enumerated?
• What is the ruling on circulating a joke that includes the permissibility of hitting a woman with a hot frying pan after she has watched cooking channels for a long time and prepared a simple meal?
• Is it permissible for a committed Muslim who suffers from a mood disorder to smoke two or three cigarettes of the lightest types daily, taking care that no one sees him, on the grounds that it benefits him psychologically, and with his full knowledge of the ruling on smoking?
• How is it possible to strike a balance between seeking sacred knowledge and specializing in worldly sciences like medicine and engineering, with the desire to reconcile the two?
• Is what a Shaykh and Imam of a mosque does—treating people with the Holy Quran, and what he described to me as using Surat Al-Baqarah on olive oil, Surat Yasin on water, along with "tahlil," "istighfar," prayers upon the Prophet, and honey—considered permissible, or is there anything forbidden in it?
• Is it permissible for a woman to go with her son to the Haram or to the hospital without the knowledge of her oppressive and controlling husband, if the husband is traveling?
• Is it obligatory to inform one's fiancée about sexual problems such as premature ejaculation, and is marriage in this case considered a sin?
• Is it permissible to take medicine capsules that contain pig gelatin, when alternatives would cause health problems and financial hardship?
• Are there any Hadith narrations concerning the Senna plant (Senamaki)? And what are its benefits?
• What is the advice for dealing with bad luck in livelihood, fatigue, and obsessive-compulsive disorder in worship and daily transactions?
• Is it permissible to complete the discharge of semen by hand if one wakes up from a wet dream and its flow has stopped, but it remains in the urethra causing pain and harm?
• Is it permissible to sell surplus medicine—dispensed through mandatory health insurance—and benefit from its price?
• What is the ruling on selling medicine imported from Turkey at a cheaper price to Iraq, given that the manufacturing company, the exclusive agent, and the Iraqi government prohibit this?
• Is it permissible for a female doctor specializing in internal medicine to treat men, knowing that her work circumstances require her to be present as the responsible physician at the hospital during the night?
• What is the precise standard for a girl's modesty (hayaa'), and does the necessity for female students of medicine to see or touch the private parts of men, and to hear about the most intimate aspects of modesty and private parts in women from male professors, affect and diminish their modesty?
• Is it obligatory to repeat circumcision if a person was born circumcised, then an excess of foreskin was found after puberty?
• What is the limit for consuming black seed in excess that would be lethal, as mentioned by Ibn al-Qayyim in his book "Prophetic Medicine"?
• What is the husband's obligation regarding maintenance if the wife is working and covering her personal expenses? Is the husband required to pay a childcare fee of 500 riyals for the child, and how much money should he allocate for her if she stops working?
• What is the ruling of Islamic law regarding the custom of bathing a child with water mixed with dirt that has been placed under the stars for healing from illness?
• What is the ruling on a male doctor being alone with a female patient, or a female doctor being alone with a male patient? Is such a private meeting permissible out of necessity if there are no doctors of the same gender available? And what would negate the state of seclusion for both genders?
• What is the ruling on individuals seeking treatment from an apostate doctor who mocks religious rituals, whether they are aware of his apostasy or not?
• Is it obligatory to return the surplus to the insurance company if the doctor prescribed 12 boxes of medicine to be taken once a week, and then 9 boxes were purchased, followed by 6 boxes instead of 3?
• Is an unintentional error in dispensing medication considered fraud, and what is the ruling on not informing the patient of the error after discovering it, especially if the alternative medication is harmless?
• What is the ruling on treating nerve weakness by anointing with wolf fat?