The ruling on collective recitation for the sick and over water in tanks
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is the ruling on some of the reciters who recite over the sick, the blind, or the afflicted, while they are gathered in a hall, or recite over water in a vat, and so on? Is this considered forbidden?
Answer:
Yes. This is not correct. This is not the ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did, nor what the scholars did. You gather people in prayer and slaughter a large animal over them. Who said this? Is this from the Sunnah of the Salaf? Or do you recite over a required amount of water? Or in an underground tank, or a tank, or something else? This is an exaggeration. And what follows from this is greed. Greed for Allah.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is the ruling on some of the reciters who recite over the sick, the blind, or the afflicted, while they are gathered in a hall, or recite over water in a vat, and so on? Is this considered forbidden?
Answer:
Yes. This is not correct. This is not the ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did, nor what the scholars did. You gather people in prayer and slaughter a large animal over them. Who said this? Is this from the Sunnah of the Salaf? Or do you recite over a required amount of water? Or in an underground tank, or a tank, or something else? This is an exaggeration. And what follows from this is greed. Greed for Allah.
Source
شرح قرة عيون الموحدين في تحقيق دعوة الأنبياء والمرسلين، باب من الشرك النذر لغير الله، وباب من الشرك الاستعاذة بغير الله — islamhouse.com (1:03:36)
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