Is going to someone who possesses the miraculous ability to heal leprosy, by God's permission, considered seeking treatment or seeking ruqya (exorcism/spiritual healing), and what is the ruling on repenting from seeking ruqya, cauterization, and omens in order to be among the seventy thousand, and is abstaining from medicine and enduring chronic illness better for the afflicted person to be counted among the patient?

Istirqa' (seeking ruqyah) is a form of treatment, and one who seeks ruqyah for his ailment is not considered to have abandoned treatment. Caution must be exercised regarding claims of miraculous healing, as these often originate from sorcerers and charlatans. Seventy thousand people will enter Paradise without reckoning: those who do not seek ruqyah, nor believe in omens, nor use cauterization, and upon their Lord they rely. Whoever abandons these matters for the sake of Allah is hoped to be included in the favor mentioned in the hadith, knowing that istirqa' and cauterization are not absolutely forbidden. The virtue of patience does not contradict seeking treatment, even though one who abandons treatment may exhibit greater patience.