Making Ruqyah a Profession and a Business
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Question:
The Shaykh said: May Allah reward you. A young man saw great benefit in his dream, so he opened a clinic for dream interpretation in the court, and made obtaining it himself for a specific person for a higher amount, called focused reading, and he sells oil and honey for very high amounts, along with its sweetness in his efforts sometimes during ruqyah, and many like these have increased, so what is your guidance regarding that?
Answer:
Making it a trade and a profession, this is not permissible. It is not permissible to make ruqyah a profession, where a person sets up a place and sets prices for people.
In ruqyah, this is all a matter that is not permissible, because it turns it from an act of nearness and worship into a trade and a pursuit of worldly gain. This takes ruqyah out of its field and out of what it was legislated for. Ruqyah is a means of benefit to people and a means of nearness to Allah the Exalted and Majestic. A person uses it to benefit people and do good to them. 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 does not sit and open a place and say to people, "Come to the Messenger." But if they come to him without him seeking this thing, without him opening a place, there is no harm in his performing ruqyah for them and taking what they give him without imposing conditions on them. Now the matter has fallen into the hands of the greedy. In fact, many of the ignorant, the foolish, and the wicked have entered into it, seeking worldly gain or misleading people in their beliefs. So one must be cautious of these people, fully cautious of these people.
The Shaykh said: May Allah reward you. A young man saw great benefit in his dream, so he opened a clinic for dream interpretation in the court, and made obtaining it himself for a specific person for a higher amount, called focused reading, and he sells oil and honey for very high amounts, along with its sweetness in his efforts sometimes during ruqyah, and many like these have increased, so what is your guidance regarding that?
Answer:
Making it a trade and a profession, this is not permissible. It is not permissible to make ruqyah a profession, where a person sets up a place and sets prices for people.
In ruqyah, this is all a matter that is not permissible, because it turns it from an act of nearness and worship into a trade and a pursuit of worldly gain. This takes ruqyah out of its field and out of what it was legislated for. Ruqyah is a means of benefit to people and a means of nearness to Allah the Exalted and Majestic. A person uses it to benefit people and do good to them. 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 does not sit and open a place and say to people, "Come to the Messenger." But if they come to him without him seeking this thing, without him opening a place, there is no harm in his performing ruqyah for them and taking what they give him without imposing conditions on them. Now the matter has fallen into the hands of the greedy. In fact, many of the ignorant, the foolish, and the wicked have entered into it, seeking worldly gain or misleading people in their beliefs. So one must be cautious of these people, fully cautious of these people.
Source
شرح قرة عيون الموحدين [8] — alfawzan.live (1:26:34)
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