The Ruling on Seeking the Help of Sorcerers to Identify Sorcery

Question:
It is a shared debt, even if it is one hundred riyals; they must know about it and divide it among themselves. If the one who is entitled to it permits them to waive his share, there is no harm. However, concealing it from them is not permissible. We ask Allah for safety. He says he has a relative. And this relative, about five months ago, according to his claim, performed sorcery on him, and he has not approached his wife since that time. He and his wife used the prescribed ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation) several times, and with several shaykhs, but without result. The question is: Is it permissible for him to seek the help of sorcerers to identify the type and location of the sorcery so that the divorce does not occur?

Answer:
He is not allowed to do that. It is not permissible to seek the help of sorcerers, nor of sorcery, nor of fortune-tellers. But this is an illness that will go away, if Allah wills. So they should use the prescribed ruqyah. Each one should recite over himself in his palms: "Say: He is Allah, the One" and "I seek refuge in Allah" three times when going to sleep, and wipe over his face, chest, and head three times. It will go away, if Allah wills, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did. Each one, the husband and the wife, each one should recite in his palms when going to sleep three times: "Say: He is Allah, the One," "Say: I seek refuge in Allah." Do not say "I seek refuge in Allah" three times; rather, in each instance, wipe over his head, face, and chest. And this affliction will go away, if Allah wills. Perhaps he will thank us. May Allah guide them all, and may Allah send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon his family and his Companions.