When should one turn to the Qur'an to treat various illnesses?
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The questioner : I say: May Allah reward you, O Shaykh; does the Sunnah prohibit treating patients with the Qur'an without specifying for fractures or sorcery? Is there any harm in it or not?
The Shaykh : Without what?
The questioner : I mean without specifying, for all illnesses; is there any harm in treating with the Qur'an? Sorcery, the harm of jinn to a person, by reciting in water, for example, blowing, or reciting.
The Shaykh : If the treatment is limited to the reciter reciting the Qur'an to the patient, then that is, of course, permissible and prescribed. However, if other things are added to the recitation of the Qur'an that are not mentioned in the Sunnah, then that is not prescribed. With one observation: the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:. So if a person is afflicted with a physical, bodily, apparent illness, he must treat it with known physical medical drugs, whether they are from Prophetic medicine or from experimental medicine. If the illness is not treated by such physical drugs, which the Messenger (peace be upon him) intended in his previous hadith: Sunan Ibn Majah 3438Sahih (Darussalam); then he must turn to treatment with the Qur'an, because it is a healing for people. But if we give an example now that a person's temperature rises, it is not prescribed to immediately turn to treating it with the Qur'an; rather, it is treated with sedatives and fever-reducing drugs. Clearer than this example is if a vein is cut, for example a vein, then he must immediately rush to tie it and bandage it (and upon you be peace and the mercy of Allah), and it is not prescribed here to turn to reciting the Qur'an. As for psychological illnesses that physical medicine, in its two branches, is unable to treat, then at that time treatment is referred to the recitation of the Noble Qur'an, with the condition I mentioned earlier, which is that nothing be associated with it that is not mentioned in the Sunnah.
Yes.
The Shaykh : Without what?
The questioner : I mean without specifying, for all illnesses; is there any harm in treating with the Qur'an? Sorcery, the harm of jinn to a person, by reciting in water, for example, blowing, or reciting.
The Shaykh : If the treatment is limited to the reciter reciting the Qur'an to the patient, then that is, of course, permissible and prescribed. However, if other things are added to the recitation of the Qur'an that are not mentioned in the Sunnah, then that is not prescribed. With one observation: the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
Indeed, Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He) has not sent down a disease except that He has sent down for it a cure; whoever knows it knows it, and whoever does not know it does not know it.
إن الله - تبارك وتعالى - ما أنزل داءً إلا وأنزل له دواء ؛ عَلِمَه من عَلِمَه ، وجَهِلَه من جَهِلَهAllah does not send down any disease, but He also sends down the cure for it.
ما أنزل الله داءً إلا وأنزل له دواءYes.
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