Is cupping related to treating delayed marriage and infertility, or is what some male and female shaykhs do by opening cupping centers for this purpose and taking financial compensation an innovation?
Spinsterhood means delayed marriage, and cupping has no relation to it. However, cupping might have an effect on treating delayed conception and infertility. Scholars have differed on the ruling regarding earning a living through cupping. Some have permitted it, citing that the Prophet (peace be upon him) was cupped and gave the cupper his wages, and if it were forbidden, he would not have done so. They interpreted the hadiths that condemn the earnings of a cupper as referring to a minor dislike (karahah tanzihiyyah) due to the lowliness of the profession, not to prohibition. Whereas others disliked it due to hadiths that describe the earnings of a cupper as impure.
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