---
layout: post
publisher: alsalafiyyah@icloud.com
title: "Ruling on cauterization as a way of curing epilepsy"
hijri: Safar 04, 1442
lang: en
locale: en
note: true
category: [treatments,fatwas]
source: "Fatawa Al-Lajnah Al-Da'imah, Fatwa no. 7501, Question 4"
excerpt: Is it permissible in this case to burn the Muslim woman with a firebrand so that the female jinni will leave her body?
muftis:
  chairman: 
    - name: Shaykh Abdul-Aziz ibn Baz
      url: /biography/binbaz/
  deputy_chairman:
    - name: Shaykh Abdul-Razzaq Al-Afifi
      url: /biography/afifi/
  members: 
    - name: Shaykh Abdullah ibn Ghudayyan
      url: /biography/ghudayyan/
    - name: Shaykh Abdullah ibn Qa'ud
      url: /biography/qaud/
---

### Question:
An epileptic woman is possessed by a female Jinn. When the Jinn is beaten, she refuses to depart from the Muslim woman's body. Is it permissible in this case to burn the Muslim woman with a firebrand so that the female jinni will leave her body? 

### Answer:
It is absolutely Haram (prohibited) to use this method, because only Allah has the right to punish with fire.