What is the ruling on earning a livelihood through ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation) and cupping?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, a questioner says: There is a man who is advanced in age and has no job from which to earn, so he has made ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation) and cupping his source of income, and he has turned his home into a place where people come to him. What is the ruling on that?
Answer:
If he is skilled in ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation) according to the Shari'ah method, there is no harm. If he is skilled in ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation) according to the Shari'ah method and does not resort to superstitions or things from books of misguidance, for there are books of misguidance containing many things of shirk (associating partners with Allah), unknown things, and incantations. Yes. And it is better for him to be self-sufficient without relying on that. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, a questioner says: There is a man who is advanced in age and has no job from which to earn, so he has made ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation) and cupping his source of income, and he has turned his home into a place where people come to him. What is the ruling on that?
Answer:
If he is skilled in ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation) according to the Shari'ah method, there is no harm. If he is skilled in ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation) according to the Shari'ah method and does not resort to superstitions or things from books of misguidance, for there are books of misguidance containing many things of shirk (associating partners with Allah), unknown things, and incantations. Yes. And it is better for him to be self-sufficient without relying on that. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم التكسب من الرقية والحجامة؟ لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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