nor is its drinking permitted, because snake meat is forbidden. Among those who considered it disliked are al-Hasan and Ibn Sirin. Al-Sha'bi and Malik permitted it, as they view the eating of snake meat as permissible. The school of al-Shafi'i necessitates this because he permits seeking treatment using some prohibited substances. Our evidence is that snake meat is forbidden, based on what we have already mentioned previously. It is not permissible to seek treatment with anything forbidden, according to the saying of the Prophet (peace be upon him): "Indeed, Allah has not placed the cure for my nation in that which He has forbidden to them."

Section: It is not permissible to seek treatment using a forbidden substance, nor with anything containing a forbidden substance, such as the milk of female donkeys or the meat of any forbidden thing. Similarly, one may not drink wine for the purpose of medical treatment, due to the report we mentioned, and because it was mentioned to the Prophet (peace be upon him) that nabidh (fermented drink) was being made for medicine, and he said: "It is not a medicine; rather, it is a disease."

Section: It is permissible to eat food that contains worms or weevils, such as fruits, cucumbers, melons, grains, and vinegar, provided one's soul does not find it repulsive and one is comfortable with it, because exercising extreme caution against such things causes hardship. It is permissible to eat honey with its comb even if it contains bee larvae for the same reason, and if one cleanses it, that is better. It has been narrated from the Prophet (peace be upon him) that he was brought old dates, and he began to inspect them, take the weevils out of them, and cleanse them. This is better.

1745 - Issue: He said: (And the game is not to be eaten if it was shot with a poisoned arrow, if it is known that the poison aided in its killing.)

It is only like that because whatever the poison kills is forbidden, and whatever the arrow kills alone is permissible. So if it dies due to a permitted cause and a prohibited one, it becomes forbidden, just as if it died from a shot by a Muslim and a Magian, or if a trained dog and an untrained one killed the game, or if he found another dog with his own dog whose state he did not know, or if he shot game with an arrow and found it drowned in