Is seeking the help of the jinn by a Muslim a form of sorcery?

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, some people who claim to remove sorcery assert that they use Muslim jinn and charge large sums of money for this. What is the truth of this?

Answer:
This is invalid, and it is not permissible to seek the help of the jinn under any circumstances, because this is shirk (associating partners with Allah). If one seeks the help of the jinn, he has associated partners with Allah. It is obligatory to seek help from Allah the Exalted and to seek treatment by what Allah the Exalted has prescribed. It is not permissible to seek the help of the jinn, nor the help of the absent, nor the help of the dead. One only seeks help from the living, present person who is capable of benefiting the one who asks him for treatment, as in the saying of Allah the Exalted in the story of Musa (peace be upon him): It is permissible to seek help and call for aid from a present person who is capable of what is asked of him, with the belief that it is Allah who benefits and harms, and that this person is merely a cause, one of the causes. Seeking help from a living, present person in what he is capable of is one of the permissible causes. Yes.