Message #23242

[Heba E. Husseyn]

To destroy tissues using electric current through a hot or cold instrument, or a chemical that burns or dissolves the tissue is called cauterization. Often used for eradicating some types of small tumors or to seal off blood vessels to stop bleeding.  In earlier times this method was also applied for curing tonsillitis.

I don’t know why Hadith prohibits cauterization.  Probably because in those times there was no electricity and therefore no electrical current for heating a steal instrument.  Even various chemicals for treatment weren’t available. The only method was to carefully burn the skin with a thin flame of fire which could cause any number of serious accidents on the skin as well as the surroundings.  But nowadays there is no such problem in regard to cauterization, and no reason to prohibit it.