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  • Impermissible to seek help of Jinn in Ruqyah (Quranic treatment)

    What is the ruling of making the Sharee‘ah-approved Ruqyah whereby the person making Ruqyah uses the Jinn so they can tell him about the condition of the patient, given that that person is known to be righteous in religion and conduct? What is the Sharee‘ah ruling on making Ruqyah for an absent patient by reciting over his photo? .. More

  • Regardless of the purpose, going to magicians is prohibited

    Is it permissible to do a spell for a good purpose, like making someone love his wife, by resorting to a magician?.. More

  • Only Allaah knows what will happen in the future

    From time to time I have some twitching in my upper eyelids. I have noticed that when I have such twitching usually something bad happens to me. What do you think about this?.. More

  • Horoscopes are a kind of fortunetelling

    My uncle visits me at home and browses through horoscope websites. I know that reading horoscopes constitutes disbelief in Allaah The Almighty, but he believes in these things. Should I prevent him from doing so, although I am sure he will be angry with me?.. More

  • The story of the bewitchment of the Prophet

    Is it true that the Prophet, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam (may Allaah exalt his mention), was bewitched? If it is true, then how was he cured? .. More

  • Going to sorcerers impermissible

    I fell ill more than once, so my mother-in-law took me to a man who asked for my photo and murmured strange words on it. Now, both my mother-in-law and my husband are trying to convince me that this man knows all of my movements. Is this possible? What is the ruling on going to such a man?.. More

  • Breaking a spell buried under the house’s threshold

    Is it possible that a house has a harmful threshold? A Shaykh told me that my husband has to recite Ayat Al-kursi [Quran 2:255] 170 times each morning so as to be able to live in this house. What is your opinion about that?.. More

  • The ruling on going to soothsayers varies according to intention and purpose

    What are the circumstances of people going to soothsayers and what is the ruling of Islam on each?.. More

  • Delay in marriage not necessarily caused by magic

    Since I was young, I have been suffering from envy and magic because of my beauty, and I do not know how to treat this. What should I do? When there is a delay in marriage, does this indicate that I am under a spell, knowing that whenever someone proposes to me, something goes wrong or we feel a barrier between us that impedes our marriage?.. More

  • Some methods of soothsayers

    Is it possible that a trustworthy person interprets a dream that there is a magic spell and the man who is under the effect of the spell must go to a Shaykh to recite some Quran and supplications on him? If yes, I heard that some people take the name of the man affected by the spell and the name of his mother and claim that they can make a recitation.. More

  • The Sharee‘ah view on astrologers

    I am a young Muslim man. I have read about Nostradamus, who was a French astrologist and physician who died about five centuries ago. He achieved widespread fame in the field of astrology and prediction. In his book, he foretold some events that took place five centuries after his death, such as the suicide of Hitler and the attack on the United States... More

  • No objection to Sharee'ah-approved Ruqyah (Quranic healing)

    I am engaged to a young woman but soon after the betrothal she fell sick. Her family took her to see many doctors, but they said that she suffers from no disease. I had some suspicions about her sickness, so I sought the help of a righteous friend and he diagnosed the cause of her sickness. He advised me to break off my engagement because she suffers.. More

  • Ruling on magicians

    Two of my colleagues and I found a book entitled Shams Al-Ma‘aarif Al-Kubra by Al-Booni and the Mus'haf (printed Quran) in another colleague’s room. Some of its words had been distorted with a pen with some foul words. We took the two books and confronted him with them. He confessed that the books belonged to him and he swore that he would repent.. More

  • Treatment by the Quran and establishing clinics for treatment by the Quran

    What is the ruling on treatment using the Quran? What are the Sharee‘ah-approved ways of treatment with the Quraan? What is the ruling on establishing clinics for such treatment?.. More

  • Undoing a spell

    I have a garment shop. Our business was going well, but now we do not have any customers. I think that someone has cast a spell or something inside the shop. How can we undo this spell? Is it true that some Quranic verses can be recited on water and then this water is sprinkled over the place where the spell was cast? If so, what are these verses?.. More