Treating the Self with Lawful Ruqyah

Question:
May Allah reward you with good and do you good. A female listener sent a long message in which she says: I am a woman, twenty-nine years old, from the city of Riyadh. My problem is that there is a voice inside me. I always hear this voice; it forbids me from performing any act of worship. When I pray, I hear it inside me, speaking to me about things that Allah does not approve of. It constantly casts doubt in me about everything in my religion and my creed. Doubt about everything has come to control my life. Sometimes I hear a buzzing in my head, as if it is about to explode from the insistence of that voice in my ear and in my head. I have even reached the point where I scream one day and say, "Enough, enough!" I also feel that same sensation during the time of prayer. Now I completely hate hearing this voice. I should mention that I performed the obligatory Hajj this year and completed the rites. But throughout the performance of the rites, this voice in my head never, ever settled. I have become afraid of sitting alone in any place. Because I was supplicating to Allah and imploring Him in prayer one day while I was alone, and I found that my body was trembling and shaking as if someone was controlling me. I ask for an explanation of that. I have also learned that there are surahs from the Noble Qur'an that are recited, and a person puts their hand in water, and after finishing the recitation, they drink this water as a cure for this condition. I also do not abandon prayer or fasting. I always read the Qur'an from the mushaf day and night. I always love to remember Allah, glorify Him, praise Him, and declare His oneness. I ask you to inform me of the healing cure for a condition like this so that it never returns to me, if Allah wills. And I ask you about the Hajj I performed and my condition as I described it? May Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
What appears from this woman's question is that she is afflicted with possession by Satan, and that what she hears or these sensations she feels are all from Satan. So she should not pay attention to these matters, nor should she worry about them. She should reject them completely and turn to her worship, her prayer, and the remembrance of Allah the Mighty and Majestic. That will go away from her, if Allah wills. The cure, praise be to Allah, is easy.
In the treatment with the Qur'an and ruqyah, she should recite over herself and adhere to the lawful adhkar in the morning and evening, and when sleeping. She should recite Ayat al-Kursi, and recite Surat al-Ikhlas and the two Mu'awwidhat, and repeat that in the morning and evening, and when sleeping. She should recite Surat al-Fatihah over herself because it is a great ruqyah; indeed, it is the healing ruqyah by the permission of Allah. She recites Surat al-Fatihah and blows over her body and whatever part of her body she can reach. She recites al-Ikhlas and the two Mu'awwidhat, and whatever is easy for her from the Qur'an, and she increases in that. If she recites over water and drinks it, that is also from the lawful ruqyah. If someone from the people of knowledge, from her relatives or her mahrams, protects her, or even if they are not her mahrams, provided she maintains her modesty and takes precautions against fitnah, there is no harm in that. It is a great treatment by which Allah the Exalted benefits. She should increase in the remembrance of Allah the Mighty and Majestic, as she mentioned, so she continues with the remembrance of Allah and the recitation of the Qur'an. If, for example, she presents herself to a psychiatrist, there may also be a medical treatment from which she benefits, because Allah the Exalted has not sent down a disease except that He has sent down a cure for it. There is no harm in permissible treatment and permissible medicines. She may have some physical illnesses that affect her, known as a nervous illness, and the doctors may have a permissible view on that, praise be to Allah. This is what Allah has permitted in