The entry of shirk (associating partners with Allah) into the Arabian Peninsula due to medicine and ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation)
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Question:
May Allah reward Your Eminence and multiply your reward. A questioner says: We heard from some shaykhs (may Allah preserve them) quoting Ibn Bishr (may Allah have mercy on him) that the entry of shirk into the Arabian Peninsula in the later eras
Answer:
Yes, yes. We heard from some shaykhs (may Allah preserve them) quoting Ibn Bishr (may Allah have mercy on him). Regarding shirk, yes. That the entry of shirk into the Arabian Peninsula in the later eras, before the call of the Imam al-Mujaddid (may Allah have mercy on him), was due to un-Islamic medicine and ruqyah. We all see in this time the spread of those who claim to be doctors and sorcerers. It would be good to have a firm stand to regulate this matter and scrutinize it before the breach becomes too wide for the mender. There is no doubt that the presence of deviant doctors and deviant ruqah practitioners is among the causes of shirk.
There is no doubt that this is among the causes of shirk. Also, the presence of ignorant people who prescribe medicines without knowledge is among the causes of evil. Yes. They may prescribe things that mean drawing near to the jinn, worshipping the jinn, and supplicating to them. This is shirk.
So, ruqyah by the ignorant and medicine by the ignorant are a means to great evil. Shirk occurred in this Peninsula for many reasons, among them the ignorance of the ruqah practitioners, the ignorance of the Bedouins, and their slaughtering for the jinn, their drawing near to the jinn, and to trees and stones. Thus, shirk occurred due to these causes, just as it occurred in the pre-Islamic age of ignorance (jahiliyyah) before that, when they worshipped trees, stones, idols, and others due to the ignorance of the ignorant and the false callers.
May Allah reward Your Eminence and multiply your reward. A questioner says: We heard from some shaykhs (may Allah preserve them) quoting Ibn Bishr (may Allah have mercy on him) that the entry of shirk into the Arabian Peninsula in the later eras
Answer:
Yes, yes. We heard from some shaykhs (may Allah preserve them) quoting Ibn Bishr (may Allah have mercy on him). Regarding shirk, yes. That the entry of shirk into the Arabian Peninsula in the later eras, before the call of the Imam al-Mujaddid (may Allah have mercy on him), was due to un-Islamic medicine and ruqyah. We all see in this time the spread of those who claim to be doctors and sorcerers. It would be good to have a firm stand to regulate this matter and scrutinize it before the breach becomes too wide for the mender. There is no doubt that the presence of deviant doctors and deviant ruqah practitioners is among the causes of shirk.
There is no doubt that this is among the causes of shirk. Also, the presence of ignorant people who prescribe medicines without knowledge is among the causes of evil. Yes. They may prescribe things that mean drawing near to the jinn, worshipping the jinn, and supplicating to them. This is shirk.
So, ruqyah by the ignorant and medicine by the ignorant are a means to great evil. Shirk occurred in this Peninsula for many reasons, among them the ignorance of the ruqah practitioners, the ignorance of the Bedouins, and their slaughtering for the jinn, their drawing near to the jinn, and to trees and stones. Thus, shirk occurred due to these causes, just as it occurred in the pre-Islamic age of ignorance (jahiliyyah) before that, when they worshipped trees, stones, idols, and others due to the ignorance of the ignorant and the false callers.
Source
قناة «فضيلة الشيخ ابن باز Alsheikh Binbaz»، 103 ما قولكم في قول ابن بشير أن دخول الشرك في جزيرة العرب في العصور المتأخرة قبل دعوة الإمام... — youtube.com
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