The ruling on reciting over salt and sprinkling it to nullify sorcery
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Question:
Is it permissible to recite over salt and sprinkle it to nullify the sprinkled sorcery?
Answer:
Salt, no, this is the practice of the common people who sprinkle the house and its entrance with salt to drive away the jinn. This is a superstition with no basis. Yes. But you say if you arrive at a place in the desert or a new house, you say [Al-Mu'minun 23:29] Sunan Abi Dawud 3898Sahih (Al-Albani). Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Is it permissible to recite over salt and sprinkle it to nullify the sprinkled sorcery?
Answer:
Salt, no, this is the practice of the common people who sprinkle the house and its entrance with salt to drive away the jinn. This is a superstition with no basis. Yes. But you say
I seek refuge in the perfect words of Allah from the evil of what He has created
أعوذ بكلمات الله التامات شر ما خلقAnd say, 'My Lord, let me land at a blessed landing place, and You are the best to accommodate [us].' "
رَّبِّ أَنزِلْنِي مُنزَلًا مُّبَارَكًا وَأَنتَ خَيْرُ الْمُنزِلِينَI take refuge in the perfect words of Allah from the evil of what He created
أعوذ بكلمات الله التامات من شر ما خلقThe presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Source
شرح كتاب التوحيد [ صالح الفوزان ]، تابع باب ما جاء في السحر — islamhouse.com (36:16)
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