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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Ruling on taking the sick to fortune-tellers and sorcerers

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This message was received by the program from the Algerian Republic, from the village of Tamasin in southern Algeria, from the questioner (B. S.), who says in her message: There is a girl who is paralyzed in her hands and legs, and the doctors were unable to treat her. Her family heard of a man who treats in a special way, where they place cumin under her head, and in the morning they take her to the man with this cumin. He tells them that she is possessed by the jinn. He asked them to bring him a kid goat, so they brought him the kid. The man began to sharpen the knife, and the kid became paralyzed like the girl. After that, he cut a piece from the kid's ear and rubbed it on the girl's nose and behind her ears. He ordered the kid to go, and it ran off quickly. He said to them: "Your daughter is fine, if Allah wills." The girl got up as if she had never been paralyzed. After that, he wrote out some medicines from herbs for her to continue the treatment at home so that she would be completely cured. Before he began speaking to them, he started with the name of Allah, recited the Verse of the Throne, then took this cumin and looked at it, and began to describe the patient's condition, what is wrong with her, when and how. I ask you to examine this case and inform us of your opinion on this. If the answer is that such a practice is prohibited, what is the evidence? Knowing that the girl's family asked me for the answer, but I was unable to answer them, so I wrote to you. Please inform us, may Allah reward you.
Answer: This practice indicates that the man is a fortune-teller who uses the jinn and draws near to them with what they want. As for placing the cumin under the head, cutting the kid's ear, and the like, this is deception so that his affair is not exposed. He is merely a man who uses the jinn. It may be that some of the jinn possessed the woman with something, which caused what happened to her, and then they agreed with them to leave her, so they left her and the cure occurred. In reality, the cure did not come from his recitation, but he deceives people by reciting the Verse of the Throne or by saying "In the name of Allah" when giving them the cumin. All of this is deception.
It is obligatory not to go to this man or his like, due to the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him):
He who visits a diviner ('Arraf) and asks him about anything, his prayers extending to forty nights will not be accepted.من أتى عرافاً فسأله عن شيء لم تقبل له صلاة أربعين يوماً
Sahih Muslim 2230
narrated by Muslim in the Sahih, and due to his saying (peace and blessings be upon him):
Whoever goes to a diviner or a fortune-teller and believes what he says has disbelieved in what was revealed to Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him).من أتى عرافاً أو كاهناً فصدقه بما يقول، فقد كفر بما أنزل على محمد ﷺ
Sunan al-Bayhaqi 15:740
narrated by the people of the Sunan, and due to his saying (peace and blessings be upon him) regarding fortune-tellers:
Do not go to themلا تأتوهم
and this is one of them. His practice indicates that he uses the jinn, asks them, and agrees with them on what they want, and they give him what he wants until he worships them instead of Allah, and he gives them what they want until they serve him. Therefore, it is not permissible to ask this man, nor is it permissible to take his treatment, nor is it permissible to go to him at all. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you.
Source binbaz.org.sa

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