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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The Ruling on Making Ruqyah a Profession and a Trade

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Question:
And she died at the appointed time. For a specific person for a larger amount, it is called focused recitation. He sells to Zayd and 'Amr for very high amounts, and he is sometimes alone with women in a high place. Many people like these have become numerous. What is your guidance regarding this?

Answer:
That it becomes a trade and a profession. This is not permissible. Making ruqyah a profession, where a person opens a shop with a sign, is not permissible.
Ruqyah, all of this is not permissible because it turns it from a place of worship into a trade seeking worldly gain. This is taking ruqyah out of its proper sphere and out of what it was legislated for. Ruqyah is for doing good to people and seeking the pleasure of Allah the Exalted and Majestic. A person uses it to benefit people and do them good. If they give him something, without him imposing amounts or prices on them, if they give him something, there is no harm. But a person should not sit and open a shop and say to people, "Come." However, if they come to him without him seeking this out, without him opening a shop for it, there is no harm in his performing ruqyah for them and taking what they give him without imposing conditions on them.
Yes. It has now become a game in the hands of the greedy. Many ignorant people, corrupters, and evildoers have entered into it, seeking worldly gain or misleading people in their beliefs. One must be cautious of these people, fully cautious of them. The omen... a person does not benefit from water, nor does he walk. And if he dislikes something, it becomes in his heart like safety and the motive and the wife; he avoids it out of a desire not to be anxious, so that he does not remain in anxiety and worry about it. He avoids it and goes to something else. Allah the Exalted and Majestic has made things spacious, so he does not remain with this thing that he finds himself disliking or not being at peace with. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 08 من 60 / شرح كتاب قرة عيون الموحدين / صالح الفوزان / العقيدة / كبار العلماء — youtube.com (9:58)

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