The Ruling on Hanging Amulets, Rings, and Ruqyah

Question:
Your Eminence the Shaykh! The questioner says: There are people who wear rings, as well as amulets, and they believe that they benefit and harm. What is the ruling on that? And what is the ruling on one who hangs amulets on which some of the verses of the Qur'an are written?

Answer:
Burning amulets and rings, and prayer beads and necklaces and other such things, all of this is prohibited; it is all shirk (associating partners with Allah).
The Imam, Shaykh Muhammad ibn al-Khattab (may Allah have mercy on him), made a chapter for this in his book al-Tawhid (The Oneness of Allah). He said: "A chapter on shirk: wearing rings, threads, and the like, meaning to ward off calamity." Amulets are wrong. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: , and whoever hangs an amulet, his affairs will not be completed. And he said (peace and blessings be upon him): "Ruqyah, amulets, and talismans." Ruqyah is the unknown ruqyah or that which is not in the name of Allah. Amulets are what is hung on children or the sick to protect against the evil eye or illness. Talismans are a type of sorcery that women use. All of this is wrong and shirk, except for the lawful ruqyah with the Qur'an or with good supplications that contain no shirk. This is permissible. Reciting over the sick person or over the person himself with the verses of the Qur'an, or with what came in the Prophetic hadiths, or with good supplications, all of this is permissible. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: , as long as it is not shirk. As for amulets, no. One makes a ring of iron, or brass, or gold, or something else, hoping that it will cure the sick person or the child. He says that it protects him from Satan. Or a ring of iron, of silver, or a ring of leather straps, or a ring of paper scraps, or something else, or a necklace or other things that are hung. All of this is not permissible with this intention, with this purpose.
As for wearing jewelry and ornaments and rings for women and other things for the sake of adornment, and displaying this with the intention of adornment, there is no harm in that. And it is permissible for a man to wear a ring of silver. As for hanging amulets on something, saying that it wards off the evil eye or wards off jinn, whether it is made of paper, cloth, iron, gold, silver, or something else, with this intention, whether it contains writing or not, all of it is not permissible. It is all minor shirk, and it may be major shirk if one thinks that it wards it off without Allah, or that it wards off calamity without Allah. Then it is major shirk. So it is obligatory to be cautious of that, even if it contains frightening verses. It is not permissible to hang them for this purpose. We ask Allah for safety. Yes.