What is the ruling on ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation) by reciting verses from the Qur'an written on a piece of paper and then burning it?
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The questioner : I treat matters of sorcery and...
The Shaykh : What matters?
The questioner : Matters of sorcery.
The Shaykh : Sorcery.
The questioner : Yes, and epilepsy, in the Sharia-compliant manner that was mentioned in the hadiths. Yes, some of the jinn, I mean, they come out of the human and then return again. So I use a method of severity with them. I bring a strip of paper and write on it some verses from Surat al-Buruj and the first ten verses of Surat al-Hashr and Ayat al-Kursi. I burn this strip while I am reciting the verses in it. From experience, the Shaytan does not return to the patient after that. And in the same manner, I give water, for example, or oil, and I recite over it and give it to the patient to drink without naming it, so that he does not name it. But during the presence of the Shaytan or the jinni that has attached itself to the person, I mean, during the drinking, while he is drinking, the jinni is present. I mean, it is not the person himself who is drinking; the jinni is present. So what is the ruling in that, O Shaykh?
The Shaykh : There is no doubt that the ruling in this situation you described is among the matters that fall under the generality of his saying (peace and blessings be upon him):Sunan Abi Dawud 4607Sahih (Al-Albani)
The Shaykh : What matters?
The questioner : Matters of sorcery.
The Shaykh : Sorcery.
The questioner : Yes, and epilepsy, in the Sharia-compliant manner that was mentioned in the hadiths. Yes, some of the jinn, I mean, they come out of the human and then return again. So I use a method of severity with them. I bring a strip of paper and write on it some verses from Surat al-Buruj and the first ten verses of Surat al-Hashr and Ayat al-Kursi. I burn this strip while I am reciting the verses in it. From experience, the Shaytan does not return to the patient after that. And in the same manner, I give water, for example, or oil, and I recite over it and give it to the patient to drink without naming it, so that he does not name it. But during the presence of the Shaytan or the jinni that has attached itself to the person, I mean, during the drinking, while he is drinking, the jinni is present. I mean, it is not the person himself who is drinking; the jinni is present. So what is the ruling in that, O Shaykh?
The Shaykh : There is no doubt that the ruling in this situation you described is among the matters that fall under the generality of his saying (peace and blessings be upon him):
Avoid novelties, for every novelty is an innovation, and every innovation is an error
و إياكم و محدثات الأمور فإن كل محدثة بدعة و كل بدعة ضلالة و كل ضلالة في النار
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