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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Resolving sorcery through the sorcerer and the prescribed treatment

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The questioner:
It is known that sorcery cannot be undone except by a sorcerer. Is this correct?

The Shaykh:
It is not correct. Sorcery may be removed by the sorcerer, or it may be removed by someone other than the sorcerer. Sorcery may be removed by sorcery of the same kind, where one serves the jinn and engages in what pleases the jinn, so they remove the sorcery they inflicted on the one who was bewitched. This is because they love for people to connect with them so that they worship them instead of Allah. The jinn may do something to a person so that he engages in what pleases them, such as shirk (associating partners with Allah) and drawing near to them with what Allah has forbidden, such as sacrifices and other things, until they lift their sorcery and what they did. This is the work of sorcerers, and it is not permissible to resort to it or ask them. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
Whoever goes to a diviner or a fortune-teller and believes in what he says or affirms it has disbelievedمن أتى عرافا أو كاهنا فصدق أو أم يقول فقد كفر
by the birth of Abu Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), and he who takes an omen or has an omen taken for him is not one of us, and he who practices sorcery or has sorcery practiced on him is not one of us, and he who practices divination is not one of us. And whoever goes to a fortune-teller and believes in what he says or affirms it has disbelieved in what was sent to Abu Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), and
He who visits a diviner ('Arraf) and asks him about anything, his prayersمن أتى عرافا فسأله عن شيء لم تقبل له صلاة
Sahih Muslim 2230
for four hours.

The questioner:
There is no power.

The Shaykh:
Therefore, it is not permissible for a believer to go to sorcerers, fortune-tellers, diviners known for claiming knowledge of the unseen, or astrologers. It is forbidden to go to all of these people, it is forbidden to ask them, and it is forbidden to believe them. However, there is a second treatment for these matters other than sorcery, which is reciting over the one who was bewitched. Perhaps Allah will benefit him through this and the sorcery will be removed.
There are other medicines that the sorcerer gave to remove what he inflicted. Among them are the known leaves of the sidr tree and the known jujube. The scholars of this Ummah in the past would take seven leaves of sidr, grind them, and then recite over them the Verse of the Throne and the verses of sorcery that were revealed in the Noble Qur'an in Surat al-A'raf, Surat Ta-Ha, and Surat Yunus. Then they recite
Say, "O disbelievers,قُلْ يَا أَيُّهَا الْكَافِرُونَ
[Al-Kafirun 109:1]
which is "Say: He is Allah, the One" and the two chapters of protection (al-Mu'awwidhatan), along with whatever supplication Allah wills, asking Allah, who is the Lord of people, for relief, as the self and something are with the disbelievers. Then the one who was bewitched drinks from it and uses it, and the sorcery is removed. It may be removed the first time, it may be removed the second time, it may be removed the third time. This has been tried many times, and Allah has benefited many people through it. Look.
Source ندوات الجامع الكبير مع الأسئلة - 52 — archive.org (54:06)

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