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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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In his saying (peace and blessings be upon him): [And how do you know that it is a ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation)]? Is it taken from this that it is permissible for the one performing ruqyah to exercise independent legal reasoning in choosing the proven verses?

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. In his question, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked the Companions about al-Fatihah, saying, “And what makes you think it is a ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation)?” Does this imply that there is no harm in a practitioner of ruqyah exerting effort to select certain specific, proven verses and use them for healing, to the exclusion of others?

Answer:
The entire Qur'an is healing. The Qur'an
And We send down of the Qur'an that which is healingوَنُنَزِّلُ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ مَا هُوَ شِفَاءٌ
[Al-Isra 17:82]
so it is all healing and all mercy. One recites whatever is easy for him from the Qur'an. If he knows the surahs that were specified for ruqyah, he recites from them. If he does not know them, he recites from the entire Qur'an, which is blessed, and it is all ruqyah. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [1861 -3022] في قوله ﷺ[وما يدريكم أنها رقية]هل يؤخذ منه جواز اجتهاد الراقي في اختيار الآيات المجربة؟ — youtube.com

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