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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The ruling on specifying a certain number for reciting certain verses with the intention of healing

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Question:
Peace be upon you. Your Eminence, the father, the questioner says: I heard from some people that a woman was suffering greatly from her husband and his bad treatment of her. So it was said to her: Recite the words of Allah, Glorified and Exalted,
And to Him belongs that which reposes by night and by dayوَلَهُ مَا سَكَنَ فِي اللَّيْلِ وَالنَّهَارِ
[Al-An'am 6:13]
in water for four days, repeating it ninety-nine times each time. She did so, and then her husband drank the water. He changed and became a man filled with tranquility. The question is: What is the ruling on this practice? And what is its extent of permissibility?

Answer:
Any action that has no evidence from the Book or the Sunnah is invalid. This action has no evidence for it. Who specified the verse? Who specified the number? It needs evidence. And the fact that some tranquility occurred does not indicate its validity, as we have told you many times before. The fact that the intended result is achieved by something does not indicate its correctness, because it may be a matter of trial and test, or it may be a true decree and destiny. So one should not argue based on this. It is not permissible to act without evidence specifying the surah or verse, and evidence specifying the number. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [94] حكم تحديد عدد معين لقراءة بعض الآيات بنية الشفاء - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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