What is the religious ruling on performing surgeries to remove birth defects, whether resulting from illness, accidents, or present since birth, such as removing an extra finger or tooth, repairing a cleft lip, removing burn scars, correcting a crooked nose, completing a missing ear, tightening droopy eyelids, tightening sagging facial skin, tightening and reducing large breasts for women, tightening abdominal skin, correcting urinary tracts in males, removing disfiguring spots on the face, and dissolving excess fats and lipids?
It is permissible to treat diseases with lawful or permissible medicines, and it is not permissible to treat with unlawful things like alcohol, based on the Prophet's (peace be upon him) sayings: "Allah has not sent down any disease except that He has also sent down its cure," and "For every disease there is a cure," and "Seek treatment, but do not seek treatment with unlawful things," and "Indeed, Allah has not made your cure in what He has forbidden to you."
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