The Water of a Certain Well Has Healing in It

Question

There is a well in which a spring has emerged. It has been heard about the water of this well that someone benefited from it in some ailment; for this reason the common people constantly travel there in order to use and obtain the water of this well for the sake of healing. Is this permissible or not?

Answer

In some places the water naturally contains a substance by which bodily diseases are cured; there is nothing surprising in this. If the matter is confined to this alone, there is no harm — just as certain medicines are used, or journeys are made to certain places for a change of climate: physicians and doctors prescribe that the climate of such-and-such a place, being hot,…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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