The Ruling on Going to Sorcerers to Break a Spell

Question:
This questioner says: My wife is suffering from various illnesses, and she was examined by doctors who reported that there are no organic diseases. She suspects that she is under a spell, and she often asks me to take her to certain people who reveal spells, but I refuse because of the prohibition involved. I do not feel at ease, and marital life with her is difficult. What is your honorable opinion? And what is the solution?

Answer:
First, not everyone who is afflicted with an illness is under a spell. There are many illnesses. One must abandon this idea and persist in supplicating to Allah, performing the permissible and lawful ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation) by reciting the Qur'an over this sick woman and doing so frequently, and protecting her with lawful amulets. This is the treatment. It also includes going to psychiatrists, who may identify the type of her illness or have a treatment for this condition, and it may not be sorcery. Even if it is established that it is sorcery, sorcery is not broken by similar sorcery, but rather by the lawful treatment, which is reciting the Qur'an and using lawful amulets. If there are known medicines for breaking sorcery that are practiced without any element of charlatanism, by the hands of trustworthy people of knowledge and expertise, that is acceptable. However, going to sorcerers to break a spell is not permissible. Al-Hasan said: "Sorcery is not broken except by a sorcerer." When the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was asked about that, he said: "It is from the work of Satan. The breaking of the spell is from the work of Satan." The breaking of the spell is the removal of the sorcery from the one under the spell. Yes.