Sunday, August 5, 2012

2a] How to deal with sihr (magic/witchcraft)

2a]
(O Allaah, Lord of mankind, remove the harm and heal him, for You are
the Healer and there is no healing except Your healing, with a healing
which does not leave any disease behind)." This may be repeated three
times or more. And it was also narrated from him (peace and blessings
of Allaah be upon him) that Jibreel (peace be upon him) performed
ruqyah for himand said three times: "Bismillaah arqeeka min kulli
shay'in yu'dheeka, wa min sharri kulli nafsin aw 'aynin haasid Allaah
yashfeek, bismillaah arqeek (In the name of Allaah I perform ruqyah
for you, from every thing that is harming you, from the evil of every
soul or envious eye may Allaah heal you, in the name of Allaah I
perform ruqyah for you)." This is a great ruqyah which was narrated in
a saheeh hadeeth from the Prophet(peace and blessings of Allaah be
upon him). It is prescribed to perform ruqyah for the one who has been
bitten or stung, and the one who has been affected by sihr, and the
one who is sick. There is nothing wrong with performing ruqyah for one
who is sick or has been affected by sihr or bitten or stung, by
reciting good du'aa's, even if they were not transmitted from the
Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), so long as they
do not contain anything that is haraam, because of the general meaning
of the hadeeth of the Prophet (peace andblessings of Allaah be upon
him): "There is nothing wrong with ruqyah so long as it does not
involve shirk."
Allaah may heal the sick person and the person affected by sihr, and
others, without any ruqyah and without any action on the part of other
people, because He is Able to do all things, and He is Wise in all
that He does. Allaah says in HisHoly Book:
"Verily, His Command, when He intends a thing, is only that He says to
it, 'Be!' and it is!"[Yaa-Seen 36:82]
To Him be praise and thanks for all that He willsand decrees, for He
is wisein all that He does.
The sick person may not be healed if his appointedtime has come and it
is decreed that he should die from this disease. Among the things that
may be used in ruqyah are the verses which speak of sihr, which may be
recited into water. These are the verses about sihr in Soorat
al-A'raaf, where Allaah says (interpretation of themeaning):
"And We revealed to Moosa (saying): 'Throw your stick,' and behold! It
swallowed up straight away all the falsehood which they showed.
Thus truth was confirmed,and all that they did was made of no effect.
So they were defeated there and returned disgraced
[al-A'raaf 7:117-119]
And in Soorat Yoonus (interpretation of the meaning):
"And Pharaoh said: 'Bring me every well-versed sorcerer.'
And when the sorcerers came, Moosa said to them: 'Cast down what you
want to cast!'
Then when they had cast down, Moosa said: 'What you have brought is
sorcery, Allaah will surely make it of no effect. Verily, Allaah does
not set right the work of Al-Mufsidoon.
And Allaah will establish and make apparent the truth by His Words,
however much the Mujrimoon may hate (it).'"
[Yoonus 10:79-82]
And in Soorat Ta-Ha (interpretation of the meaning):
"They said: 'O Moosa! Either you throw first or we be the first to throw?'
Moosa said: 'Nay, throw you (first)!' Then behold! their ropes and
their sticks, by their magic, appeared to him as though they moved
fast.
So Moosa conceived fear in himself.
We (Allaah) said: 'Fear not! Surely, you will have the upper hand.
And throw that which is in your right hand! It will swallow up that
which they have made. That which they have made is only a magician's
trick, and the magician will never be successful, to whatever amount
(of skill) he may attain.'"
[Ta-Ha 20:65-69]
These aayahs are among the things by which Allaah causes the ruqyah
against sihr to be beneficial. If the qaari' (reader) recites these
verses into water, and also reads Soorat al-Faatiha, Aayat
al-Kursiy,"Qul Huwa Allaahu Ahad", and al-Mi'wadhatayn into the water,
then pours it over the person who he thinks has been affected by sihr
or is being prevented by magic from having intercourse with his wife,
then he will be healed by Allaah's Leave. If seven lotus leaves are
ground up and added to the water as well, this is appropriate, as was
mentioned by Shaykh 'Abd al-Rahmaan ibn Hasan (may Allaah have mercy
on him) in Fath al-Majeed, quoting from some of the scholars in the
chapter entitled Ma jaa'a fi'l-Nushrah. It is mustahabb to recite the
three soorahs, namely QulHuwa Allaahu Ahad, Qul A'oodhu bi Rabb il
Falaq and Qul A'oodhu bi Rabb il-Naas....

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