The Ruling on Performing the Funeral Prayer for One Who Casts the Evil Eye and the Advice for One Afflicted by It

Question:
A man afflicts people with the evil eye, sometimes unintentionally. Is there a Shari'ah remedy for this ailment, since we have heard that there is a type of treatment which is performing the funeral prayer for this one who casts the evil eye? What is the validity of this?

Answer:
This is not correct. Performing the funeral prayer for the one who casts the evil eye, the validity of the funeral prayer, this is among the common people; it has no basis. The one who casts the evil eye must increase in the remembrance of Allah (Mighty and Majestic). He himself should increase in the remembrance of Allah. If he increases in the remembrance of Allah, this prevents the effect of the evil eye, by the permission of Allah. Likewise, a person should seek refuge in Allah from the evil of the envious one, recite the two Mu'awwidhat (seeking refuge chapters), and increase in supplication and the remembrance of Allah, and nothing will harm him, by the permission of Allah (Mighty and Majestic). A person is only afflicted due to his negligence of the remembrance of Allah. If a person keeps up the remembrance of Allah when entering, when exiting, when sleeping, and in the matters in which remembrance is prescribed, the remembrance is a secure fortress. Whoever takes refuge in it, Allah protects him. In the hadith, Yahya ibn Zakariyya (peace be upon him) with a set of commands, among which he said: "And I command you to remember Allah, for the example of that is like a man whom the enemy pursued, so he took refuge in a secure fortress and was safe from their evil." This is the example of the remembrance of Allah (Mighty and Majestic). The shayatin (devils), the shayatin of humans and jinn, are behind him pursuing him, but if he remembers Allah, he enters a fortress and is protected from them. The example of that is like a man whom the enemy pursued, so he took refuge in a secure fortress and escaped from their evil.