فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

Background and Aim: Hygiene and body health in order to preserve the life is one of the natural and innate human’s needs and one of the goals of religion, and among the five essentials in jurisprudence. Using the therapeutic procedures is emphasized to achieve this goal in religious teachings. Cupping is one of these procedures in which they help to heal or relieve physical pain by using blood flow (dry cupping) or removing it through superficial skin scratches (wet cupping). This therapeutic procedure was popular before Islam and has been confirmed and emphasized in Islam. As blood is unpure in Islamic jurisprudence, one of the topics disputed by jurists is the effect of blood removal on the rules of purity, fasting or Hajj, and the induction and evaluation of the arguments of the pros and cons in this field can provide the basis for preferring the correct view. Materials and Methods: The present descriptive-analytical research, using a content analysis method, is trying to investigate the effect of cupping in the field of devotional matters such as purification (Ghosl and ablution), fasting and Ihram by analyzing jurisprudential texts of Islamic religious. Conclusion: By summarizing the jurists’ views and the pros’ and cons’ reasons it seems that cupping does not cause Ghosl and is not considered as a violation of ablution and fasting. Despite the disagreement on the permissibility of cupping for a pilgrim, it seems that there is no prohibition for cupping-especially in the case of necessity, but paying ransom is obligatory.