The Ruling on Breaking Sorcery with Sorcery

Question:
Is it permissible to break sorcery with sorcery if treatment is not available, given that the person seeking treatment does not believe in the sorcerers?

Answer:
The Shaykh (may Allah have mercy on him) dedicated a specific chapter to this question in this book, which he titled "The Chapter of Support." He mentioned that the scholars asked whether it is permissible to remove sorcery with similar sorcery or not. The correct opinion among the scholars is that it is not permissible. For this reason, al-Hasan al-Basri said, "No sorcerer can remove sorcery except a sorcerer." Therefore, the sorcerer is not permissible as a counter to these means.
However, the treatment of sorcery is through the Qur'an and through permissible medicines. There are medicines from plants and from the 'adha'ah (a type of plant) that the herbalist knows; there are medicines with which sorcery is treated. And from the Qur'an, by reciting over the patient and performing ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation).
So, treatment with permissible medicines, treatment with the Qur'an, and treatment with lawful amulets and Prophetic medicines is sufficient for removing sorcery, but on the condition that there is certainty on the part of both the afflicted person and the one treating him. The one treating him says that Allah, the Exalted, is the Healer and the Restorer. Also, from the treatment of sorcery is its destruction. If the sorcery is found, it is destroyed, just as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) destroyed the sorcery with which he was afflicted. Jibril informed him of its location, so he sent for it and destroyed it. If one is able to find the sorcery with which one was afflicted, it is obligatory to do so. This is one of the causes of recovery, by the permission of Allah, along with the Qur'an and permissible medicines. Yes.
As for treatment by sorcerers, it is not permissible. This is its image in the Chapter of Support, if Allah wills. Yes.