Is a bracelet, said to ward off cold, considered an amulet, even if doctors acknowledge its benefits?
What a person wears to ward off harm or attract benefit falls into three categories:
First: Amulets (tamāʾim) that contain polytheistic writing or talismans, or that contain no writing and have no medical benefit. This type causes its wearer to fall into major or minor (polytheism).
Second: Amulets that contain Qur’an, dhikr (remembrance of God), or du’a (supplication). Scholars have differed regarding their permissibility, with the majority allowing them. However, it is better to avoid them to prevent confusion among the common people.
Third: What has been proven beneficial by observation and experience and affirmed by doctors, such as tying a string above a snakebite. There is no harm in this.
As for wearing a bracelet to ward off cold, there is no validity to it, and we do not know of any benefit from it. It may be the work of charlatans, so it must be avoided.
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