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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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If I do not master the Arabic language, may I perform ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation) on my patient by translating the meanings of the prescribed supplications in ruqyah?

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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. If I do not master the Arabic language, may I perform ruqyah on my patient by translating the meanings of the prescribed supplications in ruqyah?

Answer:
There is nothing wrong with that. If you do not master the Arabic language, you supplicate, you supplicate in your own language, you call upon Allah in your own language
Allah does not charge a soul except [with that within] its capacityلَا يُكَلِّفُ اللَّهُ نَفْسًا إِلَّا وُسْعَهَا
[Al-Baqarah 2:286]
but on the condition that you are skilled in translation, transferring the language, transferring the Arabic speech to your language. You must be proficient in this and know it, so that you do not alter it. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [1244 /1350] إذا كنت لا أجيد اللغة العربية، فهل أرقي مريضي بترجمة معاني الأدعية المشروعة في الرقى؟ — youtube.com

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