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Permission to cut veins

alkafi-14984Vol. 8, p. 194

قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع الرَّجُلُ يَشْرَبُ الدَّوَاءَ وَ يَقْطَعُ الْعِرْقَ وَ رُبَّمَا انْتَفَعَ بِهِ وَ رُبَّمَا قَتَلَهُ قَالَ يَقْطَعُ وَ يَشْرَبُ‌[3].

‘The man drinks the medicine, and cuts the vein, and perhaps it benefits him and perhaps it kills him’. He (asws) said: ‘He can cut and he can drink’.