How to Distinguish Between the One Who Performs Ruqyah with Lawful Ruqyah and Others
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The questioner:
May Allah reward you. Also, this is another questioner asking, may Allah preserve you: How do I know that this raqi (healer) performs ruqyah with lawful ruqyah?
The Shaykh:
Ask the people of knowledge and the people of good about him; they will know him for you. Yes.
The questioner:
May Allah preserve you. But some of the ruqah (healers), may Allah guide them, have introduced some problems for some women and some men as well regarding their illnesses, and they increased their delusion. What is your guidance?
The Shaykh:
A decision has been issued by the Committee of Senior Scholars that foreigners who are not from the country are not permitted to perform ruqyah. That is one thing. The second thing is that the ruqyah must be performed by someone who has knowledge and understanding of the rulings of ruqyah, and that the raqi and the one being treated believe that it is a cause, that it is a cause for healing by the permission of Allah, and that he does not assert it with certainty. The third condition is that it be in the Arabic language, not in mumbling or a language that is not understood. Yes.
May Allah reward you. Also, this is another questioner asking, may Allah preserve you: How do I know that this raqi (healer) performs ruqyah with lawful ruqyah?
The Shaykh:
Ask the people of knowledge and the people of good about him; they will know him for you. Yes.
The questioner:
May Allah preserve you. But some of the ruqah (healers), may Allah guide them, have introduced some problems for some women and some men as well regarding their illnesses, and they increased their delusion. What is your guidance?
The Shaykh:
A decision has been issued by the Committee of Senior Scholars that foreigners who are not from the country are not permitted to perform ruqyah. That is one thing. The second thing is that the ruqyah must be performed by someone who has knowledge and understanding of the rulings of ruqyah, and that the raqi and the one being treated believe that it is a cause, that it is a cause for healing by the permission of Allah, and that he does not assert it with certainty. The third condition is that it be in the Arabic language, not in mumbling or a language that is not understood. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 1946 - كيف نميز بين الراقي بالرقية الشرعية وغيره - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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