The Difference Between Permissible and Shirk-Based Ruqyah and Amulets

Question:
Abu Ibrahim says: Please explain to me this phrase in the book of Tawhid: "Ruqyah and amulets are shirk." What is permissible of them and what is prohibited? May you be rewarded.

Answer:
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Shirk-based ruqyah is the ruqyah of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, which contains seeking refuge in other than Allah, supplication to other than Allah the Exalted, and calling upon the gods of the polytheists. This is shirk-based ruqyah. As for ruqyah from the Qur'an, from the Sunnah, and from the prescribed supplications, it is tawhid (the oneness of Allah) and not shirk. Ruqyah and amulets are things they hang on children, claiming that they ward off the evil eye from them. This is reliance on other than Allah, so it is shirk-based ruqyah and shirk-based amulets, because they seek to ward off disliked and prohibited matters through a means other than the correct path by which seeking refuge and protection were prescribed, namely the Book of Allah, the Sunnah of His Messenger, and the permissible and prescribed supplications.
And the tiwala is something they make, claiming that it causes a woman to love her husband and a man to love his wife. This is also shirk with Allah the Exalted. Love is in the hand of Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, said: He made So, it is Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, who places affection between the spouses. This is among the signs of Allah: that a foreign man and a foreign woman come together through the lawful contract, and Allah casts love between them. You show mercy to one another; the woman shows mercy to her husband, and the husband shows mercy to his wife, after this blessed contract based on the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). Yes.

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