The Ruling on Opening Centers for Ruqyah and Taking Fixed Amounts
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: What is the ruling on opening centers for ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation) and taking fixed amounts from those who want the recitation?
Answer:
This is trading. This is not what the practice of the Salaf (the earliest generations) was. One does not take ruqyah as a profession; rather, it is an act of kindness and treatment for the needy. One does not make it a profession, open a shop, and put up a sign like a doctor, or set up a reception. No, this is not a ruqyah practitioner; this is a greedy person who only wants money, and he may not even be skilled in ruqyah. Some of them are Bedouins who do not know ruqyah, but the ignorant people say, "This is the doctor, and this is the ruqyah practitioner," because they know him. As for the correct ruqyah practitioner who follows the Sunnah, they do not know him from his own country, so they do not go to him; they go to the foreigner they do not know. In any case, this is playing with ruqyah, so it is not permissible. This is prohibited, even from the perspective of the state. The state prohibits this; a decision was issued by the Committee of Senior Scholars prohibiting these people who play with ruqyah. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: What is the ruling on opening centers for ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation) and taking fixed amounts from those who want the recitation?
Answer:
This is trading. This is not what the practice of the Salaf (the earliest generations) was. One does not take ruqyah as a profession; rather, it is an act of kindness and treatment for the needy. One does not make it a profession, open a shop, and put up a sign like a doctor, or set up a reception. No, this is not a ruqyah practitioner; this is a greedy person who only wants money, and he may not even be skilled in ruqyah. Some of them are Bedouins who do not know ruqyah, but the ignorant people say, "This is the doctor, and this is the ruqyah practitioner," because they know him. As for the correct ruqyah practitioner who follows the Sunnah, they do not know him from his own country, so they do not go to him; they go to the foreigner they do not know. In any case, this is playing with ruqyah, so it is not permissible. This is prohibited, even from the perspective of the state. The state prohibits this; a decision was issued by the Committee of Senior Scholars prohibiting these people who play with ruqyah. Yes.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، الباب الثاني في ذكر حقيقة مرض القلب — islamhouse.com (53:05)
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