The answer to a question about permission

This one deserves its own step because of what the bedouins were actually asking. They asked whether they should treat their sick. They were asking permission.

The answer, in Tirmidhi, graded sound: yes, servants of Allah, use remedies, for Allah did not make a disease without making a cure for it. The one exception named is old age.

So the shape of the exchange matters as much as the words. A community asked whether seeking treatment was allowed, and were told to go and do it. That is not a licence granted reluctantly. It is an instruction.