Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Jinn, witchcraft and the evil eye - , Should the one who hasbeen affected by witchcraft see the one who put the spell on himduring the ruqyah?

When someone is sick because of sahr (magic)and he does ruqueyah, is
it possible, when the man who readthe Coran, that the sick sees who
did the sahr to him and how it was done? Some people say that what the
sick sees during ruqueyah can be right but it can be also wrong.Those
people say that if someone accuse someone else then he has to do tawba
becausehe accuse someone who maybe didn't do anything.Are those people
right? Please answer my question because a lot of people have problems
because of this.
Praise be to Allaah.
What people have told you, that the one who has been affected by
witchcraft should see the one who put the evileye on him or put a
spellon him, may or may not be true. It is not correct to accuse an
innocent person of using witchcraft against the victim. What the
victim sees during the ruqyah cannot be taken as being correct for
sure, rather what usually happens is something imaginary from the
Shaytaan that is aimed at stirring up enmity andhatred among people.
So we should not pay any attention to it. But even though, according
to sharee'ah, such thingscannot be relied on, thatdoes not mean that
we should not take precautions against those whom it is feared may
cause harm throughwitchcraft or the evil eyeetc, without that implying
any accusation without proof or causing any feeling of enmity.
This accusation is very serious because it may be tantamount to an
accusation of kufr, and not just an accusation of causing harm. That
is because the practitioner of witchcraft is either a kaafir or an
evildoer. The ruling varies according to the way in which he practices
witchcraft.
Shaykh Ibn 'Uthaymeen said in his commentary on the hadeeth, "Avoid
the seven things which doom a person to Hell: associating others with
Allaah, witchcraft…":
The word sihr (witchcraft) is one of theactions that doom a person to
Hell. The apparent meaning of the words of the Prophet SAWS (peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him) is that it makes no difference if
that is done through the devils or by means of medicines and potions.
Because if it is done through the devils, that can only be done by
associating them in worship with Allaah, which comes under the heading
of shirk (associating others with Allaah). If it is other thanthat, it
is also a major sin, because witchcraft isone of the worst crimes that
can be committed against the sons of Adam. It adversely affects the
spiritual and worldly affairs of the victim, and causes him anxiety,
thus making him like an animal. Indeed it is even worse than that,
because animals were created like that, but if a human being is
diverted from his true, sound nature, this causes hardship and anxiety
to an extent which only Allaah knows. Hence witchcraft comes second
only to shirk in this list of grave sins.
Al-Qawl al-Mufeed Sharh Kitaab al-Tawheed, 2/287.

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