The Ruling on Ruqyah (Healing by Qur'anic Recitation) at a Distance via Telephone
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh Salih. What is the ruling on reciting for a sick person via telephone, where one is in one country and the other in another, or via the media, may Allah preserve you?
Answer:
This is not recitation; this is nonsense. It is necessary that the recitation for the sick person be direct: the reciter reads and blows on the patient at the site of the affliction. This is the ruqyah. As for ruqyah from a distance and from far away, this is nonsense and exaggeration in ruqyah. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh Salih. What is the ruling on reciting for a sick person via telephone, where one is in one country and the other in another, or via the media, may Allah preserve you?
Answer:
This is not recitation; this is nonsense. It is necessary that the recitation for the sick person be direct: the reciter reads and blows on the patient at the site of the affliction. This is the ruqyah. As for ruqyah from a distance and from far away, this is nonsense and exaggeration in ruqyah. Yes.
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/183 — archive.org (2:13)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.