Ways of Treating and Confronting the Evil Eye (Envy)
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The questioner : And they said, based on experience, that if a person challenges the one who casts the evil eye, he is unable to harm him. The scholar said, "Come, I will challenge you," and he is not harmed because he has a strong spirit that repels the other person's spirit.
The Shaykh : Yes, indeed. There are many remedies for it, among which is what the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) guided us to: one performs wudu (ablution) and washes the hollows, meaning the soles of the feet, the knees, and the like, then gives the patient to drink from it and pours it over his head, and he is healed by the permission of Allah immediately. Among them is also what is known to us through experience: one takes his turban and his cap, places them on the affected thing, puts them in water, and the afflicted person drinks it and is cured right away. There is a third thing as well, and I do not know if it is correct or not, that one prays over the one who casts the evil eye the prayer for the dead. You pray over him the prayer for the dead, and if you have prayed over him the prayer for the dead, he no longer casts the evil eye; he no longer remains one who casts the evil eye on anyone. But I do not know this; I have not verified it.
And some of those accused of having the evil eye was sleeping one day. So his brothers who were with him in the house gathered some of them together. When they said they intended to pray over him the prayer for the absent, when he said "Allahu Akbar" (Allah is the Greatest), he said "Allahu Akbar, the Great," and he stood up and said, "How can you do this?" They said, "Because if a person has the evil eye and then the funeral prayer is performed over him, it nullifies his evil eye." But we have not verified this. As for the matter of taking from his adornment, meaning what is near his body, that is something tested, widely transmitted, and well-known.
The questioner : Yes. Yes, indeed.
The Shaykh : Yes, but do we say that we do not go beyond what the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) did, or do we say that if something is established by experience, there is no harm in using it? Yes.
The questioner : From a Shari'ah perspective, meaning.
The Shaykh : No, no, it does not benefit; his presence in front of him is required.
The Shaykh : Yes, indeed. There are many remedies for it, among which is what the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) guided us to: one performs wudu (ablution) and washes the hollows, meaning the soles of the feet, the knees, and the like, then gives the patient to drink from it and pours it over his head, and he is healed by the permission of Allah immediately. Among them is also what is known to us through experience: one takes his turban and his cap, places them on the affected thing, puts them in water, and the afflicted person drinks it and is cured right away. There is a third thing as well, and I do not know if it is correct or not, that one prays over the one who casts the evil eye the prayer for the dead. You pray over him the prayer for the dead, and if you have prayed over him the prayer for the dead, he no longer casts the evil eye; he no longer remains one who casts the evil eye on anyone. But I do not know this; I have not verified it.
And some of those accused of having the evil eye was sleeping one day. So his brothers who were with him in the house gathered some of them together. When they said they intended to pray over him the prayer for the absent, when he said "Allahu Akbar" (Allah is the Greatest), he said "Allahu Akbar, the Great," and he stood up and said, "How can you do this?" They said, "Because if a person has the evil eye and then the funeral prayer is performed over him, it nullifies his evil eye." But we have not verified this. As for the matter of taking from his adornment, meaning what is near his body, that is something tested, widely transmitted, and well-known.
The questioner : Yes. Yes, indeed.
The Shaykh : Yes, but do we say that we do not go beyond what the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) did, or do we say that if something is established by experience, there is no harm in using it? Yes.
The questioner : From a Shari'ah perspective, meaning.
The Shaykh : No, no, it does not benefit; his presence in front of him is required.
Source
قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، 366 - 401 - طرق معالجة ومواجهة العين ( الحسد ) - الشيخ ابن عثيمين — youtube.com
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