Advice for Ruqah Practitioners Who Fall into Sorcery and Doctrinal Errors

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, a questioner says: Some ruqah practitioners fall into sorcery, doctrinal errors, and wrong matters. What is the Shaykh’s advice to them regarding this issue?

Answer:
And may Allah send blessings and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. First, we advise people not to go to them, as they engage in things that are not permissible in ruqah, such as sorcery, acts of shirk (associating partners with Allah), and superstitions. It is not permissible for a Muslim to go to them. Second, we advise these practitioners to fear Allah the Exalted, and to abandon this shirk-based or bid'ah (religious innovation)-based ruqah, or ruqah performed by an ignorant person. The ignorant person does not know; he may fall into prohibited matters without realizing it, because his concern or aim is to affect the patient by any means. So he should fear Allah the Exalted, and not perform ruqah unless he has knowledge and a correct creed. He should also perform ruqah with the Qur'an or with the prescribed supplications, and believe that healing is from Allah the Exalted, and that this ruqah is only one of the causes. If Allah wills, it will benefit; and if He wills, it will not.
As for a person who makes ruqah a means of earning and trading, that is not permissible for him, because greed drives him to commit prohibited matters, without knowing what is prohibited and what is permissible. It is not permissible for the ignorant person, nor for one who intends money and performs prohibited ruqah. It is not permissible for these people. First, this involves consuming wealth unjustly, because it is without right. Second, it poses a danger to the creed, to the creed of the practitioner, and to the creed of the patient. Yes.