Sitting with people for ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation) and its transmission from the Salaf
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The questioner:
Shaykh (may Allah preserve you), regarding the readers in this time and the expansion in this practice, and making, I mean, houses for this place—do you mean, did this action come from the Salaf, that is, sitting with people for the sake of ruqyah? Did this come from the Salaf?
The Shaykh:
He owes nothing; the default is permissibility.
The questioner:
It is demolished, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh:
The default is that there is no harm in ruqyah, provided it does not involve shirk (associating partners with Allah), as the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said:Sunan Abi Dawud 3886Sahih (Al-Albani) in the Sahih. The default is that there is no harm in ruqyah, whether little or much. Rather, the one performing the ruqyah should fear Allah, watch over his actions, and beware of performing ruqyah with anything other than what Allah has prescribed, and he should intend by his recitation the Face of Allah.
Another questioner:
Ibn al-Qayyim mentioned in Zād al-Ma'ād about his Shaykh that he would sometimes send his sandals to the one performing the ruqyah, saying to him: O Shaykh, come out.
The Shaykh:
If he knows the jinn, he may obey and submit; he may have a deterrent within himself; he may fear that he will come and throw him or harm him; he may fear, and he is far away.
Another questioner:
If he is.
The Shaykh:
This is from the facilitation of Allah for the Shaykh (may Allah have mercy on him), from his sincerity and his good treatment of people. The Shaykh may strike some people; he may strike them.
Another questioner:
He strikes them if it is so.
The Shaykh:
Look.
Another questioner:
It is mentioned that he would strike until the person regained consciousness, and he would say, "Who came to me here?" He did not feel the strike despite its severity.
The Shaykh:
But for some people, it is not permissible to allow them to do so; because they may strike without insight, they may harm people. And the one performing the ruqyah should not strike anyone; because he is ignorant.
Another questioner:
Some categories of people, due to the severity of the striking.
The Shaykh:
He said: No one of us strikes. The Shaykh is not measured by the standard of others. The recitation is blessed and has blessing; Allah is not pleased with it.
Shaykh (may Allah preserve you), regarding the readers in this time and the expansion in this practice, and making, I mean, houses for this place—do you mean, did this action come from the Salaf, that is, sitting with people for the sake of ruqyah? Did this come from the Salaf?
The Shaykh:
He owes nothing; the default is permissibility.
The questioner:
It is demolished, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh:
The default is that there is no harm in ruqyah, provided it does not involve shirk (associating partners with Allah), as the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
There is no harm in invocations so long as there is no polytheism in them.
لا بأس بالرقى ما لم تكن شركاء رواه مسلمAnother questioner:
Ibn al-Qayyim mentioned in Zād al-Ma'ād about his Shaykh that he would sometimes send his sandals to the one performing the ruqyah, saying to him: O Shaykh, come out.
The Shaykh:
If he knows the jinn, he may obey and submit; he may have a deterrent within himself; he may fear that he will come and throw him or harm him; he may fear, and he is far away.
Another questioner:
If he is.
The Shaykh:
This is from the facilitation of Allah for the Shaykh (may Allah have mercy on him), from his sincerity and his good treatment of people. The Shaykh may strike some people; he may strike them.
Another questioner:
He strikes them if it is so.
The Shaykh:
Look.
Another questioner:
It is mentioned that he would strike until the person regained consciousness, and he would say, "Who came to me here?" He did not feel the strike despite its severity.
The Shaykh:
But for some people, it is not permissible to allow them to do so; because they may strike without insight, they may harm people. And the one performing the ruqyah should not strike anyone; because he is ignorant.
Another questioner:
Some categories of people, due to the severity of the striking.
The Shaykh:
He said: No one of us strikes. The Shaykh is not measured by the standard of others. The recitation is blessed and has blessing; Allah is not pleased with it.
Source
لقاءات لابن باز - لقاء مع إخوة في الله - ابن باز - ٤ — archive.org (44:47)
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