How to treat sorcery, the evil eye, and possession?
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The questioner : How is the treatment for sorcery, the evil eye, and possession?
The Shaykh : I know no treatment for sorcery other than the prescribed ruqyah, reciting the Qur'an, seeking refuge in Allah, and supplicating to Him for the healing of this person afflicted with sorcery. As for visiting fortune-tellers and diviners to find out who cast the spell and what type of sorcery it is, in order to break it or the like; this, in addition to being of no benefit, is engaging in non-Shari'ah means. In fact, it may be one of the means of shirk (associating partners with Allah), because some of it contains ruqyah whose meanings are unknown, and it may contain seeking refuge from devils whose names we do not know, but these false prophets know them, as they seek the help of their companions from among the jinn. As the Lord of the worlds said in the Noble Qur'an:[Al-Jinn 72:6].
As for what concerns the one afflicted with the evil eye and the one possessed; the one afflicted with the evil eye has a treatment mentioned in the book "al-Muwatta" and others: that it is suspected that a person cast the evil eye, and if he is identified, he is ordered to perform wudu' (ablution), and his wudu' water—the water he used for ablution—is taken, and the extremities of the afflicted person are wiped with it. This becomes a Shari'ah cause for his healing. There is some other detail in the hadith that I may not recall right now, and this is found in the book "al-Muwatta" and in other books of the Sunan.
As for the possessed person whom a jinni has taken hold of, his treatment is the recitation of verses from the Noble Qur'an by a righteous Muslim known for his righteousness; this is often beneficial.
This is what I have in answer to this question.
The Shaykh : I know no treatment for sorcery other than the prescribed ruqyah, reciting the Qur'an, seeking refuge in Allah, and supplicating to Him for the healing of this person afflicted with sorcery. As for visiting fortune-tellers and diviners to find out who cast the spell and what type of sorcery it is, in order to break it or the like; this, in addition to being of no benefit, is engaging in non-Shari'ah means. In fact, it may be one of the means of shirk (associating partners with Allah), because some of it contains ruqyah whose meanings are unknown, and it may contain seeking refuge from devils whose names we do not know, but these false prophets know them, as they seek the help of their companions from among the jinn. As the Lord of the worlds said in the Noble Qur'an:
And there were men from mankind who sought refuge in men from the jinn, so they [only] increased them in burden.
وأنه كان رجال من الإنس يعوذون برجال من الجنِّ فزادوهم رهقًاAs for what concerns the one afflicted with the evil eye and the one possessed; the one afflicted with the evil eye has a treatment mentioned in the book "al-Muwatta" and others: that it is suspected that a person cast the evil eye, and if he is identified, he is ordered to perform wudu' (ablution), and his wudu' water—the water he used for ablution—is taken, and the extremities of the afflicted person are wiped with it. This becomes a Shari'ah cause for his healing. There is some other detail in the hadith that I may not recall right now, and this is found in the book "al-Muwatta" and in other books of the Sunan.
As for the possessed person whom a jinni has taken hold of, his treatment is the recitation of verses from the Noble Qur'an by a righteous Muslim known for his righteousness; this is often beneficial.
This is what I have in answer to this question.
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