The ruling on going to a healer for a fee

Question:
She says: I am sick with an illness that may be sorcery or a jinn. I have not left a folk doctor without going to him, but without any benefit. I was told that there is a man who takes a sum of money in exchange for treating me, on the condition that he takes half the amount and the rest if I recover. Is it permissible for me to go to him? Please advise us, with thanks. May Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
If this man is trustworthy in his creed, and he treats with a known treatment that contains no superstition, no shirk (associating partners with Allah), and no sorcery, then there is nothing wrong with going to him. As for the matter of the fee and agreeing on it, that is up to what you two agree upon, and there is nothing wrong with that. However, this is on the condition that this man is sound in his creed, and that he treats with permissible matters, not with forbidden matters.