The Lawfulness of Ruqyah and Its Method

Question:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner says: One of the ruqyah practitioners has become famous for reciting over oil, where people crowd around him and come from distant areas seeking only the oil, to the extent that some of them are keen to send this oil outside the country. So what is your guidance (may Allah preserve you) for the ruqyah practitioners first, and for the patients second?

Answer:
Ruqyah is prescribed; ruqyah is prescribed. There should be legitimate ruqyah practitioners from the people of correct creed and from the people of knowledge. We do not deny ruqyah, nor do we deny that there should be ruqyah practitioners. The ruqyah can be in water, in oil, in what is drunk or what is eaten; the ruqyah is in these matters. It can also be direct on the afflicted person, and this is better. The ruqyah should be direct on the afflicted person and on the patient. All of this is acknowledged. But the issue is the ruqyah practitioner: who is he?
What is his creed? And what does he do? Does he restrict himself to the verses and the legitimate supplications, or does he bring in superstitions, bring in shirk (associating partners with Allah), bring in talismans, and call upon the Shayatins and the jinn? He should stop in the matter of ruqyah. Not every ruqyah practitioner is to be trusted, even if people gather and crowd around him, one should not be impressed by him until his method is known and his approach to ruqyah is understood. Yes.