Unbinding sorcery with similar sorcery and the meaning of “sorcery is not unbound except by a sorcerer”
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: What is the ruling on unbinding sorcery with similar sorcery? And what is the meaning of the saying of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), or what was reported, that “sorcery is not unbound except by a sorcerer”?
Answer:
It is not a hadith that “sorcery is not unbound except by a sorcerer,” but the scholars say so: sorcery is not unbound except by a sorcerer. Therefore, it is not permissible to unbind sorcery with similar sorcery. Rather, it is unbound by ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation) and permissible medicines, as Ibn al-Qayyim mentioned regarding unbinding. Look at the chapter on unbinding in the book Tawhid by Shaykh Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab, the chapter on unbinding, the chapter on what was reported regarding unbinding, which is unbinding sorcery from the one who was bewitched. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: What is the ruling on unbinding sorcery with similar sorcery? And what is the meaning of the saying of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), or what was reported, that “sorcery is not unbound except by a sorcerer”?
Answer:
It is not a hadith that “sorcery is not unbound except by a sorcerer,” but the scholars say so: sorcery is not unbound except by a sorcerer. Therefore, it is not permissible to unbind sorcery with similar sorcery. Rather, it is unbound by ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation) and permissible medicines, as Ibn al-Qayyim mentioned regarding unbinding. Look at the chapter on unbinding in the book Tawhid by Shaykh Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab, the chapter on unbinding, the chapter on what was reported regarding unbinding, which is unbinding sorcery from the one who was bewitched. Yes.
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