What is the ruling on going to sorcerers to break a spell?
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The questioner : Your Eminence the Shaykh! There is a man who is blind, and his wife has been bound (by a spell), and he wants to seek treatment from a sorcerer; because he was told that only a sorcerer can break it. And one of the young men was told to go to one of the shaykhs to ask who can do that? And what is the solution for that? And may Allah bless you.
The Shaykh : The well-known position among the Salaf is that it is not permissible to break a spell with a spell like it, and that only a sorcerer can carry a spell. If that is the case, then it is not permissible for us to go to sorcerers to have them break the spell? Because our going to them leads to them having a social status, and leads to the extortion of people's money. And perhaps two sorcerers would agree, one who casts the spell and the other who breaks it. And the fee, the fee is between them. And it is obligatory to avoid sorcery.
And that the sorcerer should fear his Lord, and that he should know that he has a day in which he will meet his deeds, so he wishes he had not cast a spell on any of the people. And let him repent to Allah, for the correct view is that the repentance of a sorcerer is accepted, due to the generality of the saying of Allah Blessed and Exalted is He:[Al-Furqan 25:68-70].
The presenter : Your Eminence the Shaykh! I ask you to supplicate to Allah for my healing, and may Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : Healing is from Me.
The presenter : What do I want?
The Shaykh : I ask Allah Glorified and Exalted to heal all the sick among the Muslims. And to remove the hardship from every afflicted person among the Muslims.
I advise this brother who asked the question to turn to his Lord, Mighty and Majestic, and not to His creation, for Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, said in His noble Book:[An-Naml 27:62] from [An-Naml 27:62]?
So, O brother, you must turn to the supplication of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, when hardship befalls you. Know that Allah the Exalted is near and responsive, and that if He knows from His servant that he turns to Him with sincerity, Allah the Exalted will save him from what he has fallen into. Did you not know that Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, saves the polytheists when they are in the sea,[Yunus 10:22], and He knows, Mighty and Majestic, that when the trial is removed from them and He saves them, they will return to being polytheists?
The Shaykh : The well-known position among the Salaf is that it is not permissible to break a spell with a spell like it, and that only a sorcerer can carry a spell. If that is the case, then it is not permissible for us to go to sorcerers to have them break the spell? Because our going to them leads to them having a social status, and leads to the extortion of people's money. And perhaps two sorcerers would agree, one who casts the spell and the other who breaks it. And the fee, the fee is between them. And it is obligatory to avoid sorcery.
And that the sorcerer should fear his Lord, and that he should know that he has a day in which he will meet his deeds, so he wishes he had not cast a spell on any of the people. And let him repent to Allah, for the correct view is that the repentance of a sorcerer is accepted, due to the generality of the saying of Allah Blessed and Exalted is He:
(68) And those who do not invoke with Allah another deity or kill the soul which Allah has forbidden [to be killed], except by right, and do not commit unlawful sexual intercourse. And whoever should do that will meet a penalty. (69) Multiplied for him is the punishment on the Day of Resurrection, and he will abide therein humiliated - (70) Except for those who repent, believe and do righteous work. For them Allah will replace their evil deeds with good. And ever is Allah Forgiving and Merciful.
وَالَّذِينَ لَا يَدْعُونَ مَعَ اللَّهِ إِلَٰهًا آخَرَ وَلَا يَقْتُلُونَ النَّفْسَ الَّتِي حَرَّمَ اللَّهُ إِلَّا بِالْحَقِّ وَلَا يَزْنُونَ وَمَن يَفْعَلْ ذَٰلِكَ يَلْقَ أَثَامًا يُضَاعَفْ لَهُ الْعَذَابُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ وَيَخْلُدْ فِيهِ مُهَانًا إِلَّا مَن تَابَ وَآمَنَ وَعَمِلَ عَمَلًا صَالِحًا فَأُولَٰئِكَ يُبَدِّلُ اللَّهُ سَيِّئَاتِهِمْ حَسَنَاتٍThe presenter : Your Eminence the Shaykh! I ask you to supplicate to Allah for my healing, and may Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : Healing is from Me.
The presenter : What do I want?
The Shaykh : I ask Allah Glorified and Exalted to heal all the sick among the Muslims. And to remove the hardship from every afflicted person among the Muslims.
I advise this brother who asked the question to turn to his Lord, Mighty and Majestic, and not to His creation, for Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, said in His noble Book:
Is He [not best] who responds to the desperate one when he calls upon Him and removes evil and makes you
أَمَّن يُجِيبُ الْمُضْطَرَّ إِذَا دَعَاهُ وَيَكْشِفُ السُّوءَ وَيَجْعَلُكُمْinheritors of the earth? Is there a deity with Allah
خُلَفَاءَ الْأَرْضِ أَإِلَٰهٌ مَّعَ اللَّهِSo, O brother, you must turn to the supplication of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, when hardship befalls you. Know that Allah the Exalted is near and responsive, and that if He knows from His servant that he turns to Him with sincerity, Allah the Exalted will save him from what he has fallen into. Did you not know that Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, saves the polytheists when they are in the sea,
supplicating Allah, sincere to Him in religion
دَعَوُا اللَّهَ مُخْلِصِينَ لَهُ الدِّينَ
Source
لقاء مع طلاب جامعة الإمام بمسجد الإسكان — archive.org (20:29)
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