The Ruling on Going to Healers Who Claim to Break Sorcery

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Question:
The questioner asks: What is the ruling on going to healers who claim to break sorcery and the like?

Answer:
It is not permissible to go to sorcerers, fortune-tellers, and other foolish soothsayers; it is not permissible to go to them. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “Whoever goes to

or who goes to a fortuneteller and believes what he says, he has disbelieved in that which was revealed to Muhammad.

كاهنا فصدقه بما يقول فقد كفر بما أنزل على محمد

Sunan Ibn Majah 639Hasan (Darussalam)

(peace and blessings be upon him).”
Because the fortune-teller’s report conflicts with the report of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). The fortune-teller is the one who claims knowledge of the unseen and reports on hidden matters. Fortune-telling is a false matter that conflicts with what was revealed to the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) from the Qur’an:

⁽²¹⁰⁾ And the devils have not brought the revelation down. ⁽²¹¹⁾ It is not allowable for them, nor would they be able. ⁽²¹²⁾ Indeed they, from [its] hearing, are removed.

وَمَا تَنَزَّلَتْ بِهِ الشَّيَاطِينُ وَمَا يَنبَغِي لَهُمْ وَمَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ إِنَّهُمْ عَنِ السَّمْعِ لَمَعْزُولُونَ

[Ash-Shu'ara 26:210-212]

The jinn are not able to access the Qur’an or hear it, and they are barred from it.
Their work is nothing but fortune-telling, dealing with Satan, and claiming knowledge of the unseen, and they are disbelievers. Is it not permissible to go to them? The sorcerer is more severe than the fortune-teller. The sorcerer is more severe than the fortune-teller. Is it not permissible to go to him or to seek treatment from him? Yes.

Source مجالس رمضان 1431هـ - 02 — alfawzan.live (28:23)

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