Advice on the Expansion of Lawful Ruqyah
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The questioner:
The questioner asks: Do you have any advice to offer regarding the expansion of lawful ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation)?
The Shaykh:
Ruqyah.
The questioner:
Yes.
The Shaykh:
Lawful ruqyah is regulated and does not require anything beyond the Book and the Sunnah. Ruqyah is performed with the Qur'an or with lawful supplications, and both the one performing the ruqyah and the one receiving it should have good expectations of Allah and believe that healing comes from Allah and that ruqyah is merely a means and a cause, and it is not to be adopted for the sake of gathering money. Ruqyah is not to be made a source of livelihood and a means of accumulating wealth; rather, it is a matter of ihsan (excellence in worship). If something is given to him, there is no harm in his accepting it, but if he makes conditions with people, opens a shop, and sets prices, that has never been part of ruqyah; it has become buying and selling.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
The questioner asks: Do you have any advice to offer regarding the expansion of lawful ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation)?
The Shaykh:
Ruqyah.
The questioner:
Yes.
The Shaykh:
Lawful ruqyah is regulated and does not require anything beyond the Book and the Sunnah. Ruqyah is performed with the Qur'an or with lawful supplications, and both the one performing the ruqyah and the one receiving it should have good expectations of Allah and believe that healing comes from Allah and that ruqyah is merely a means and a cause, and it is not to be adopted for the sake of gathering money. Ruqyah is not to be made a source of livelihood and a means of accumulating wealth; rather, it is a matter of ihsan (excellence in worship). If something is given to him, there is no harm in his accepting it, but if he makes conditions with people, opens a shop, and sets prices, that has never been part of ruqyah; it has become buying and selling.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 31/8 شرح كتاب التوحيد / الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (57:28)
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