What is the ruling on selling ruqyah and 'azaim?

Question : This is a questioner from al-Qasim who says: What is the ruling in the Shari'ah, in your view, Honorable Shaykh Muhammad, regarding the selling of ruqyah and 'azaim?

Answer : Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and I send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and his Companions, and upon those who follow them in excellence until the Day of Judgment. The prescribed ruqyah is for the reciter to perform the ruqyah on the patient himself. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) sent out a military expedition, and they descended upon a group of people and asked to be hosted, but the people did not host them, so they moved to the side. Then Allah the Exalted sent a scorpion upon their master, and it stung him. They said, "Is there any of you who can perform ruqyah?" Some of them said to others, "Perhaps these people who descended upon you have a reciter, meaning one who recites." So they came to the Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) and asked them for ruqyah, but the Companions refused unless they were given a fee, so they gave them a flock of sheep. The reciter went to recite over this one who was stung. He recited Surat al-Fatihah until the one who was stung stood up as if he had been untied from a rope. Then they informed the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) of this. He said to the reciter, "What makes you think it is ruqyah?" This is what is prescribed in ruqyah: that a person performs ruqyah on the afflicted one himself.
As for writing verses on papers or in vessels and then mixing them with water and giving the patient to drink it, this has been reported from some of the Salaf (may Allah have mercy on them), but I do not know of a Sunnah from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) regarding this, and those who have tried it have benefited from it. However, the benefit from this may be because the soul is reassured by it, so it finds comfort in it and the illness becomes lighter for it. So if someone does this, meaning writes verses from the Qur'an in a vessel or on papers, then mixes them with water and the patient drinks it and benefits from it, I hope there is no harm in that.
As for making this like a trade that is bought and sold, until we have heard that some of them have made it into categories: a written ruqyah that requires seven hundred to one thousand riyals, a written ruqyah that is sufficient for five hundred, and another that is sufficient for ten, and so on, until they have categorized them as if they are trade goods, then in my view there is concern with this, and generally Allah does not place blessing in this. Because the reciters generally do not want anything from it but trade. My advice to you is not to go to them to buy this ruqyah from this place.
As for if you go to them to advise them and say, "Recite over the patients yourselves and seek the reward from Allah. Take what you are given and leave what you are not given," or it is said, "There is no harm in taking a fee for reciting over the patients, but by yourselves, because the most deserving thing for which we take a fee is the Book of Allah the Exalted." May Allah bless you, Honorable.