The Ruling on Consulting Sorcerers, Treating Sorcery, and Breaking It
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The questioner:
I.
The Shaykh:
It is not permissible to consult sorcerers, fortune-tellers, or diviners regarding the disclosure of crimes. This is not permissible. This is consulting the forbidden, and it is a diminishment of the creed and a corruption of the creed. It is dealing with polytheists and disbelievers. This is not permissible. Crimes are discovered through lawful means. It is not permissible to treat sorcery with sorcery. Rather, sorcery is treated with the Qur'an, and not with its worldly or otherworldly means, as mentioned previously. Yes.
The questioner:
Now.
The Shaykh:
Yes, yes, yes. The patient is recited over with the Qur'an, and it is established for him. Also, with medicines, there are herbal medicines and things that are used for fumigation, which this person knows, and Allah benefits through them, because Allah did not send down a disease except that He sent down for it a cure. And there is a third method, which is that if the sorcery is found, it is destroyed. If the sorcery that afflicted this person is found, then it is destroyed, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did in Islam.
The questioner:
My uncle.
The Shaykh:
There is a correct disagreement that it is not permissible. It is correct that it is not permissible. Yes. And al-Hasan al-Wasa'i said that sorcery is not broken except by a sorcerer. It is not permissible to seek the help of the ascetics for this. Yes.
The questioner:
And that it be alive.
The Shaykh:
Ibn Taymiyyah, in detail, said that breaking sorcery is of two types: breaking it with similar sorcery, and this is not permissible; and breaking sorcery with permissible medicines, permissible supplications, and prescribed recitations, and there is no harm in this.
I.
The Shaykh:
It is not permissible to consult sorcerers, fortune-tellers, or diviners regarding the disclosure of crimes. This is not permissible. This is consulting the forbidden, and it is a diminishment of the creed and a corruption of the creed. It is dealing with polytheists and disbelievers. This is not permissible. Crimes are discovered through lawful means. It is not permissible to treat sorcery with sorcery. Rather, sorcery is treated with the Qur'an, and not with its worldly or otherworldly means, as mentioned previously. Yes.
The questioner:
Now.
The Shaykh:
Yes, yes, yes. The patient is recited over with the Qur'an, and it is established for him. Also, with medicines, there are herbal medicines and things that are used for fumigation, which this person knows, and Allah benefits through them, because Allah did not send down a disease except that He sent down for it a cure. And there is a third method, which is that if the sorcery is found, it is destroyed. If the sorcery that afflicted this person is found, then it is destroyed, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did in Islam.
The questioner:
My uncle.
The Shaykh:
There is a correct disagreement that it is not permissible. It is correct that it is not permissible. Yes. And al-Hasan al-Wasa'i said that sorcery is not broken except by a sorcerer. It is not permissible to seek the help of the ascetics for this. Yes.
The questioner:
And that it be alive.
The Shaykh:
Ibn Taymiyyah, in detail, said that breaking sorcery is of two types: breaking it with similar sorcery, and this is not permissible; and breaking sorcery with permissible medicines, permissible supplications, and prescribed recitations, and there is no harm in this.
Source
الفوزان -أشرطة- أسئلة وأجوبة من دروس التوحيد - الفوزان - أسئلة التوحيد - 06 — archive.org (1:14:10)
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