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THE IMPORTANCE OF RUQYA DIAGNOSIS

Version: 13th March 2024.

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Bismillahi Walhamdulilah wa salatu wa salam ala Rasulilah:

This might be the most important article that you will read on my website as it defends the practise of ruqya diagnosis that I teach and promote. You should read it very carefully and understand the evidence for ruqya diagnosis so that you don’t get deviated by the shaytan and think that ruqya diagnosis is a bidah. I say this about the shaytan because I know a patient of mine, who was convinced by ruqya diagnosis but then succumbed to the waswas attack of her jinn and then she had doubts about ruqya diagnosis so then she stopped using it. At one point, the waswas attack was so strong that she would get confused while reading this article and she couldn’t read or understand the sentences. But, now, after reading my updated article, which removed her doubts, she realised her original doubts were from her own jinn and she would like to warn Muslims to be aware of these doubts from the jinn. Her story does not surprise me at all because we already know the enmity the jinn have for us. We must understand that the jinn hate to be exposed, especially the possessing jinn because then they can’t deceive the Muslims so obviously the jinn will do their best to create doubts about ruqya diagnosis in the hearts of the Muslims.

Other patients who were convinced by ruqya diagnosis get confused after doing their general ruqya diagnosis for the spiritual diseases (ie these patients did ruqya diagnosis for sihr and know that they have sihr but afterwards they get confused about ruqya diagnosis). Their confusion occurs when they get involved in specific ruqya diagnosis. Sadly, they didn’t think it was important to study my article “7 Rules for Specific Ruqya Diagnosis” or they didn’t know they had to study it before actually doing any specific ruqya diagnosis. They ended up doing strange things with the specific ruqya diagnosis and they got strange results and then they rejected ALL ruqya diagnoses, even their general ruqya diagnosis that they were initially happy with. They have basically fallen for the trap of the shaytan and this is what he wanted for them ie reject ALL ruqya diagnoses. One question which I usually ask, to get patients to believe in ruqya diagnosis again, is: “Why does Allah give us ruqya reactions for the spiritual diseases but not for the physical diseases?”. Pondering on this question should bring back the patient to believe in ruqya diagnosis again. The other thing which helps is to study my article “7 Rules for Specific Ruqya Diagnosis” as it highlights all or most of the major errors that patients make during specific ruqya diagnosis.

You really need to understand the great importance of ruqya diagnosis and how it literally changes the lives of Muslims, especially Muslim couples, who may be suffering from the sihr of divorce. (Ruqya diagnosis is the easiest way to find out if a couple has this spiritual disease). Once you understand and realise how much of an important act of worship, ruqya diagnosis is, then you will understand and appreciate the reason why the shaytan and his brothers are very busy with confusing Muslims about it. Obviously, the shaytan and his brothers don’t want Muslim couples to work out if they have the sihr of divorce or not, and they certainly don’t want Muslims to know if they are possessed with jinn that may also be involved in causing marital problems or even other problems. In short, ruqya diagnosis closes a lot of doors of corruption for the shaytans and that is why they are very keen for Muslims to reject it. HENCE, IT IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO STUDY THIS ARTICLE AND UNDERSTAND THE EVIDENCE AND INFORMATION THAT IT CONTAINS SO THAT YOU DON’T REJECT RUQYA DIAGNOSIS AS OTHERS HAVE DONE!

Because of the possibility of a waswas attack from the possessing jinn or qareen about ruqya diagnosis, you need to ask Allah to guide you and to help you understand the evidence and information that is presented here in this article. If you start getting attacked by your possessing jinn or qareen via waswas, then seek refuge in Allah by reciting surahs falaq and nass once as a pair and on the spot. This will remove their waswas. (The evidence for using surahs falaq and nass like this is taken from the Sunnah (Sunan Tirmidhi: Vol 2, p206: Saheeh by Al-Albani and Abu Dawood: 1463: Saheeh by Al-Albani). For a discussion about this use of these two wonderful surahs, then please read my article: “self treatment notes”).

You will most probably get surprised at why some people insist on NOT doing ruqya diagnosis even though it is very clear that it is permissible to do. You will even get further surprised at them, when you add to the clarity of the hadith evidence, the many benefits of ruqya diagnosis. You will naturally wonder why would any sane Muslim not want to do it! You have to remember that guidance is only from Allah. Just because something is clear for you, it does not necessarily mean it will be clear for others. You must not become arrogant and you should make dua for your Muslim brothers and sisters that Allah guides them so that they can benefit from ruqya diagnosis.
In the first section of this article, we will look at the ruqya of the Sahaba and compare it to ours and explain why they didn’t need ruqya diagnosis but we do. Then in the second section, we will look at the evidence for ruqya diagnosis and explain why it is not a bidah. After that, we will look at some other issues that are related to ruqya diagnosis and then, finally, I will present the benefits of ruqya diagnosis. If you wish, you can read the second section first, especially if you are a new patient, who is about to start ruqya diagnosis, and you would like to know what evidences there are for it in the Shariah.
We ask Allah to guide us and to humble us and we ask Him to guide our Muslim and brothers and sisters to understand the importance of ruqya diagnosis.

COMPARING OUR RUQYA WITH THE SAHABA’S RUQYA: WHY WE NEED RUQYA DIAGNOSIS AND THEY DIDN’T

I know people who can’t refute the evidences and proofs that I put forward for the legitimacy of ruqya diagnosis, which I present in the next section of this article, but they still won’t do it. This is because they say that the Sahaba didn’t do it so why should we do it. They are not saying that ruqya diagnosis is a bidah since they know it follows the rules of the Shariah but they feel that if they don’t do it then they are doing something better and are more in line with the Sunnah. I would have agreed with them if their ruqya treatment was as good as the Sahaba’s and they had similar results as the Sahaba. However, their ruqya treatment is far from being as good as the Sahaba’s in terms of how quick the Sahaba got the ruqya cure.
You will see later, in this very same section of this article that you are reading now, that those who actually practise ruqya diagnosis, and combine it with ruqya treatment in their ruqya methodology, have more similarities to the Sahaba’s ruqya than those who ONLY practise ruqya treatment without any ruqya diagnosis. Isn’t that something to be astonished at!

The Sahaba’s ruqya was much stronger than ours. In some cases, their ruqya was so strong that they would only read ruqya for a few minutes and then get the cure (Bukhari: 5736). Sometimes, they knew they had a spiritual disease or a physical disease but in the end it didn’t really matter, if they had a physical disease or a spiritual disease because their ruqya treatment was the same for any disease and their ruqya treatment would quickly cure both diseases. From their experience, they knew they would get the cure in a short space of time and there was no benefit for them to know what they were exactly suffering from. So for example, if one of them had the evil eye, then there was no need to worry about who the ayn perpetrator was and getting their ghusl water because their cure for ayn from ruqya treatment would be very quick but in our time, this is not the case and we would naturally worry as the ruqya cure for ayn takes a long time for us. We would obviously want to know who gave the ayn so as to improve our overall treatment but if we don’t do ruqya diagnosis, then we can never know if we have ayn in the first place and we certainly can’t ask for the ghusl water from the ayn perpetrator. The Sahaba didn’t have to worry like us and they never found themselves in the desperate predicament that we find ourselves in today.

In the Sahaba’s time, there was no need for ruqya diagnosis to see if someone was cured from a spiritual disease because they knew from their experience that after they had finished the ruqya treatment that the patient would be cured and this conviction and belief in their ruqya comes from their experience and their thinking well of Allah. This relationship with Allah, in thinking well of him, is something that made their ruqya outstanding. It seems that the Sahaba also didn’t need ruqya diagnosis to see if one of them had a spiritual disease in the first place. It is possible that they used their firasah to do their diagnosis of spiritual diseases and even to check if someone is cured. Firasah can be explained as a special kind of Islamic intuition of a Muslim. Ibn al-Qayyim said: (Firasah): “It is a light that Allah bestows in the heart of his servant, by which he distinguishes between truth and falsehood, advantage and disadvantage, the honest and the liar.” Taken from: Madarij al Salikin 2/453. Obviously and definitely, the Sahaba must have had the best firasah. When reading Islamic history, you will come across some of the Sahaba’s firasah, like the incident of Umar, (radiyallahu anhu) on seeing a particular man for the first time, Umar said that the man used to be a soothsayer, before Islam and then it was confirmed that Umar was correct. There is another incident of Uthman (radiyallah Allah anhu) seeing the sign or the effect of fornication on someone. These incidents and others prove the amazing ability that Allah bestowed upon the Sahaba so I believe that they must have used their firasah to diagnose their spiritual diseases and to see if they were cured. It is also possible that the Sahaba used their skill in dream interpretation to diagnose their spiritual diseases and to know when they were cured. We know from the Sunnah that the more truthful you are, the more truthful your dreams will be. We know the Sahaba were the most truthful people in this ummah and there is in fact a consensus (ijama) of scholars on this particular point and that is why there are no questions asked about their truthfulness in the science of hadith. Therefore, because of this, it is not too farfetched to believe that Allah gave them truthful dreams regarding the spiritual diseases. I say all this about the Sahaba’s firasah and dreams because there are no hadiths or narrations of the Sahaba complaining to the Nabi (salalahu alayhi wasalam) that they can’t diagnose the spiritual diseases or they can’t know if the patient is cured. They must have done it somehow and the only logical conclusion is that they used their firasah and dream interpretation. We don’t have anything like this today. There may be a few people with firasah and truthful dreams today but they definitely don’t have anything like the Sahaba’s firasah or dreams. Anyway, the majority of Muslims don’t have a level of firasah or dream interpretation skills that they can use to diagnose themselves and nor do we have, in our time, the Nabi (salalahu alayhi wasalam) to diagnose and treat us, like how He (salalahu alayhi wasalam) helped the Sahabi Uthman Abul-As (Sunan Ibn Majah: 3548). Hence, the importance of ruqya diagnosis in the lives of the Muslims today.

It seems, that the Sahaba just did a general ruqya treatment for everything, both spiritual and physical diseases, and there was no need to differentiate between the two diseases because the cure was forthcoming from Allah. When we carefully look at their ruqya, it can only be described as a kind of karamah (an extraordinary event or gift from Allah) and it is something that we do not have or most of us don’t have. So then why is it that some of us insist on trying to do our ruqya like the Sahaba’s when we are no way near them in terms of practical ruqya results.

One of the clear problems that I find when people insist on just doing ruqya treatment is that they don’t know when the patient is actually cured from a spiritual disease. You will see patients being told that: “You are now cured from your spiritual disease”, when the reality is that they aren’t. They go back and forth to patients and can’t understand why the patient is not cured and they don’t understand the significance of the patient still reacting to the ruqya treatment for spiritual diseases. If the patient is really cured from spiritual diseases, then why are they still reacting to ruqya treatment? For me, this is a clear sign from Allah that the patient is not cured from spiritual diseases but for some people, it seems that it is not! Based on years of experience from myself and some of my students, it has been shown that this way of ruqya practice is not really applicable in our times for the most of us and that is because we don’t have firasah, dreams or karamah of the Sahaba and nor do we have the companionship of the Nabi (salalahu alayhi wasalam). The results we saw from this kind of Ruqya treatment (ie only ruqya treatment and stopping ruqya treatment when the patients just feels better without using ruqya diagnosis to confirm their cure), seems to cause more problems than it solves. In some cases, the patient gets worse because he thought he was cured from his spiritual disease and so he stopped the ruqya treatment and then the untreated spiritual disease caused other problems. From experience, the longer you leave a spiritual disease untreated, the more chance, it has to cause physical diseases. This is why we need to know if a patient is definitely cured or not. We can’t take guesses! We need to know so that we can prevent chronic diseases.

The worst case scenario is when a raqi who thinks his ruqya is like the Sahaba’s or he thinks he is following the Sahaba, and he just reads fatiha 7 times to treat ayn and then tells the patient: “Get up now, you are cured of ayn”, without doing any ruqya diagnosis to confirm if the patient is really cured from ayn. This gift of a quick cure, in one short ruqya session, was only really for the Sahaba and it never really happens to the majority of us. Yes, there are cases of people being cured after having 7 fatihas read on them in our time but for the majority of us, this is not the case. Hence, our need for ruqya diagnosis to confirm if the patient is cured or not.

This issue of when the patient is actually cured, from a spiritual disease, is a serious one. Today, many people are walking around the world thinking that they are cured from spiritual diseases, when in reality they aren’t. They believe that they are cured because they have been told that they did the ruqya treatment according to the way of the Sahaba so they must be cured from all spiritual diseases. If this ruqya methodology of just ruqya treatment (and no ruqya diagnosis to check if the patient is cured), is truly correct then why are there so many cases of patients complaining about thinking that they were cured but then later on finding out and realising that their spiritual disease hasn’t been cured. If this method is really the best then you shouldn’t have many of these complaints. The Sahaba never had these types of complaints or problems! There are no hadiths of them complaining to the Nabi (salalahu alayhi wasalam) about thinking that they were cured and then finding out that they weren’t cured. So then why do these people claim that their ruqya treatment is like the Sahaba’s when the reality of the patients’ complaints clearly demonstrates that it isn’t. The only way to resolve this problem is to use ruqya diagnosis for the spiritual diseases.

It seems that some have accepted that ruqya reactions are normal and if a patient reacts, then it doesn’t necessarily mean that they are not cured and they say this because they have not seen anything in the Sunnah or from the Sahaba that the spiritual diseases react to ruqya. This is correct but there is a reason for this. From what we know there are no narrrations of the Sahaba experiencing ruqya reactions during ruqya treatment for the spiritual diseases, such as ayn. This makes sense as we have to read ruqya treatment usually for more than several minutes to experience any ruqya reactions for the spiritual diseases. There are hadiths about the Sahaba reading ruqya for ayn (Bukhari: 5738 & 5739) and even on their children (Ibn Majar: 3643) but none of these hadiths mention that they experienced ruqya reactions for ayn. We already know that if a patient, in our time, reads ruqya treatment for ayn, for only a few minutes then they won’t usually feel anything significant in terms of reactions and so it is understandable that the Sahaba didn’t narrate to us that they felt any ruqya reactions when they read ruqya treatment for ayn because they would have only read ruqya treatment for a short span of time and therefore they would have not felt any ruqya reactions ie because their ruqya treatment was so short for ayn, they didn’t read long enough to experience ruqya reactions as we do in our time. This is why there is no discussion in the time of the Sahaba about ruqya causing reactions for spiritual diseases or why we don’t have any hadiths on this topic. Some time after the Sahaba, the people involved in ruqya realised that the cure was not forthcoming and that they had to read ruqya longer than the Sahaba to get the cure and it was during these longer sessions of ruqya treatment that they realised that the spiritual diseases reacted to ruqya and that the physical diseases didn’t.

We believe that these Ruqya reactions, that we experience in our time, are actually a mercy from Allah, which He gave to us, because He knew that our ruqya treatment would never be as strong as the Sahaba’s so He causes these ruqya reactions in patients to make us aware that we are suffering from spiritual diseases. Our job is to be thankful to Allah and then to understand the reality of this phenomenon and then to use it to help our Muslim brothers and sisters.

The reason why these people are not too concerned about the issue of ruqya reactions or the issue if the ruqya reactions actually means the patient isn’t cured, is because it seems that they have realised that the Sahaba were never worried about these sorts of issues and hence, they would like to follow the Sahaba in this regard but I believe that this is a very big mistake to ignore these two issues because the Sahaba never had ruqya reactions and they never had to think about what the ruqya reactions actually meant! However, we need to think about these two issues, since we don’t have the same ruqya results as the Sahaba and that itself proves that our iman is not like theirs ie their ruqya results is an indication of the greatness and strength of their iman.

The Sahaba would read ruqya treatment on someone or themselves and they would get the cure from Allah very quickly ie in a few minutes. (Bukhari: 5736 & 5749). The most it seems they would have to wait for the cure was three days (Abu Dawud: 3420 & 3901: Sahih by Al-Albani). In one narration, the Sahabi read Fatiha 7 times on a Mushrik disbeliver (Tirmidhi: 2204: Sahih) and he got cured immediately from that and started actually walking as if he had not been ill in the first place (Bukhari: 5749 ). So if the Sahaba’s ruqya on a kafir is so strong, how strong do you think the Sahaba’s ruqya was when they read on themselves or other Sahaba. Obviously, it must have been much stronger and this is something that we would find very difficult or impossible to see today in our ruqya. In one narration, a Sahabi read ruqya on another Sahabi in the form of single dua (Bukhari: 5742) and it seems the ill Sahabi got cured even quicker than the aforementioned mushrik disbeliever, since the reading of one single dua takes seconds while the reading of surah fatiha 7 times takes a few minutes, and there are no indications in the hadith that the Sahabi didn’t get cured. Even if the hadith doesn’t say the Sahabi got cured, we must understand the status of the Sahaba and that the default here is that we must think well of them and that what they read as ruqya worked immediately. If we know their ruqya immediately worked for the mushrik disbelieving patient then it must have immediately worked for the Sahabi patient as well. This was the experience of our beloved Sahaba. However, for us, it is a completely different story and we know this from our experience. We would read ruqya treatment for weeks, months and even years and still not get the cure. If we told the Sahaba this, they would be shocked (or maybe they wouldn’t be because they knew that they were the best of generations). The point I am trying to make here is that why are some people only doing ruqya treatment, when these people are no way like the Sahaba in terms of iman and ruqya cure rates. The Sahaba didn’t need ruqya diagnosis. We are not like them so this is why we need ruqya diagnosis to make things easier for ourselves in terms of treatment and advice about our spiritual disease.

I remember one sheikh who didn’t like people taking money for ruqya treatment, saying that these raqis, who take money for ruqya, should make sure that the patient is cured before taking any money because the payment of sheep, in the well known hadith on ruqya, was only paid to the Sahaba when the patient was actually cured (Bukhari: 5736). Yes, the Sahabi  asked for payment and fixed the price before the actual ruqya but they only took the money when the mushrik was cured. If we also think about the fact that the Sahaba only asked for money for ruqya because the people didn’t entertain the Sahaba and if we also add to this, the fact that the people were not Muslim as well, then it is quite difficult to make the argument to charge Muslims for ruqya, although I don’t say it is haram.

This condition of payment only after the cure is almost impossible to achieve in one ruqya session by most raqis today, if not all of them. Again, if you want to claim your ruqya is like the Sahaba’s then why doesn’t it produce the same results as the Sahaba and cure patients in one session or in a short space of time. You are definitely not providing a ruqya service like the Sahaba but you are still taking money for your ruqya treatment.

Even those who don’t take money for ruqya treatment but only want to teach or do ruqya treatment are also not providing a good service for the Muslims. Yes, it is good that they don’t demand money but how have they exactly helped the Muslims with their spiritual diseases. These people just tell patients to do ruqya treatment and not to worry about what they are exactly suffering from because this is the way of the Sahaba. Mentally, this is a very difficult piece of advice to follow, especially when the patient has very strong physical reactions during the ruqya treatment and they also have marriage problems and issues like schizophrenia, depression, severe physical diseases, all being caused by a spiritual disease. Anybody in such a situation would like to know what exactly is going on and it is very difficult to just to ignore the symptoms. Did any of the Sahaba complain about these problems or issues during their ruqya treatment as our modern day patients do? Did the Sahaba ever get confused about if they were cured or not? Did the Sahaba have speaking jinn when they did ruqya treatment? Did the Sahaba ever complain about their ruqya treatment taking too long or about ruqya reactions, like many of us do today? The answer to these questions is obviously, “No”! We know the Sahaba would ask the Nabi (salalahu alayhi wasalam) about ruqya so if they had complaints and problems they would have told him but they didn’t (Ibn Majah: 3644: Sahih, 3643: Hasan). This shows that their ruqya treatment was very successful and clearly shows that ours isn’t so then why do these people continue to pretend to follow the Sahaba in ruqya treatment, when theirs and even my reality is far away from being anything like the Sahaba. Why don’t they change their methodology and include ruqya diagnosis and admit that their ruqya methodology was well intended but it didn’t take into consideration the special status of the Sahaba. These people were very special. In fact, they were the awliyah of Allah (special friends of Allah) and we cannot compete with them when it comes to ruqya treatment or any other dua! So let us humble ourselves and include ruqya diagnosis in our practice of ruqya so that the Muslims can benefit.

If we follow this way of doing ruqya ie no ruqya diagnosis, a long term patient who is doing just ruqya treatment wouldn’t know if he should divorce his wife, since he can’t tell if the negative emotions he feels are coming from waswas or it is just natural. Another long term patient, who is just doing ruqya treatment, might not understand the psychiatric problems he is facing and can’t tell if these mental issues are from jinn or himself. In extreme cases, it might lead to weak Muslims committing suicide. Another, long term ruqya treatment patient might die from a disease that was caused by sihr. This is because he didn’t know he had sihr and so he wasn’t given the opportunity to search for the taweez to cure the sihr. The same is true for those who may die from ayn. If they knew they had ayn then they would try to get the ayn perpetrator’s ghusl water and not just stick to ruqya treatment (ie the ruqya diagnosis allows the patient to try different treatments along with his ruqya treatment). Obviously, ruqya diagnosis would have given these patients the answers they needed and solved their problems but these patients have been told to not do it as the Sahaba didn’t do it. Seeing these aforementioned problems and numerous other problems, these people, who just teach or do ruqya treatment, will still just say to patients: “Just do ruqya treatment and don’t worry about what you have”. Their advice would be fine, if their ruqya methodology provided a quick cure like the Sahaba did but sadly it doesn’t. The reason they just tell patients to just do ruqya treatment and not to worry is because they don’t have any answers to the many problems that arise during ruqya treatment. They can’t even tell a patient when he is actually cured and they are very confused about this issue so then why do we expect them to tell us the answers to the other problems during ruqya treatment.

I don’t know how many Muslims have divorced because of this way of doing ruqya. In my opinion, because it doesn’t help solve marriage problems ie we don’t know if the patient has the sihr of divorce or not, I personally don’t recommend to patients this methodology of ruqya. Yes, it is a wide spread methodology and promoted by many but this is not an evidence to say it is the “best way” to do ruqya.

In our time, there are new diseases, which didn’t occur in the time of the Sahaba, and there will possibly be new future diseases (Ibn Majar: 4019: Sahih), which can also include new spiritual diseases, like waswas conditioning, which I discovered a few years ago. (Please note: there is nothing in the Shariah that says that we can’t get new spiritual diseases. This is why we accept the existence of the spiritual diseases of ashiq jinn (love jinn) or jinn possession caused by sihr or ayn. The are no hadiths about these diseases but we accept them because they are realities that Muslims have experienced). The Sahaba didn’t have to worry about new diseases but we do. The only way to discover new spiritual diseases is by using ruqya diagnosis. If we don’t use ruqya diagnosis to discover new spiritual diseases then the new disease will continue to cause harm because it has not been identified and treated appropriately. To illustrate this, we had a patient who suffered for years with the new spiritual disease “waswas conditioning” but he didn’t know he had it. He visited the doctor countless times but they couldn’t help him. He used ruqya treatment occasionally but his ruqya treatment was obviously, not as strong as the Sahaba’s so he continued to suffer until I finally used ruqya diagnosis to discover this new disease and then I treated it properly. I could not have done this without ruqya diagnosis. Hence, if you truly and sincerely want to help your fellow Muslim brothers and sisters in such situations, then you would have to seriously consider using ruqya diagnosis because your current ruqya treatment is just not good enough.

If it is said that I am stopping the Muslims from following the Sahaba’s ruqya and that I shouldn’t tell people to stop following the Sahaba as it is part of our religion to follow the Sahaba, then my reply would be that I didn’t say that and you have misunderstood me and have misconstrued my words because I also follow the Sahaba’s ruqya treatment just like you do but I combine it with ruqya diagnosis. Why would I criticise someone for something that I am also doing! I never said that you shouldn’t do ruqya treatment like the Sahaba or you shouldn’t follow the Sahaba’s ruqya treatment! All I said was that your results are not like the Sahaba’s so you should change your methodology and add ruqya diagnosis to it! There is a clear difference between the two statements! But if anyone wants to deliberately misconstrue my words and say that I am telling people not to follow the Sahaba then why don’t you also misconstrue my opponents statements and say that they are claiming that they are equivalent to the Sahaba because they do the Sahaba’s ruqya treatment and are therefore implying that they are the awliyah of Allah just like the Sahaba. You would never say this about my opponents, and neither would I, so please don’t say similar things about me by misconstruing my words! If there are people who have been blessed by Allah and who can read ruqya treatment and Allah cures quickly through them, like the Sahaba, then such people MUST continue with this way of ruqya. So I am NEVER against anyone whose ruqya treatment cures quickly just like the Sahaba’s! I am only against those people whose ruqya doesn’t cure quickly and who just want to do ruqya treatment and not use ruqya diagnosis to help Muslims.
I must remind you again that I also practise ruqya treatment just like you and the Sahaba so whatever benefits that you gain from following this Sunnah, “ie being rewarded for no shirk or bidah”, then I also share this with you as well. Anyway, the main point here is that I want you to include ruqya diagnosis with your ruqya treatment to benefit the Muslims. That is all I am saying. So I encourage you to continue with ruqya treatment like the Sahaba but just add to this ruqya diagnosis.

On a side note, the Sahaba did not need to develop the complicated and difficult science of hadith in their time but the generations after them, had to. Likewise, the Sahaba didn’t need ruqya diagnosis but we do.

I have only seen THREE similarities between my ruqya diagnosis and the Sahaba’s ruqya treatment. The first one is that our ruqya diagnosis will ALWAYS be answered by Allah in this dunya (world) just like the Sahaba’s ruqya treatment was ALWAYS answered in this dunya. My students and I have never had any real difficulties in diagnosing patients when they follow my diagnosis protocols. This ruqya diagnosis may be conducted by myself or my students or my patients who use my materials to diagnose themselves. So just like the Sahaba’s ruqya treatment was always answered ie they got what they were asking for which was a cure, our ruqya diagnosis is also always answered by Allah ie we get what we were asking for which was a reaction as a sign that the patient has a spiritual disease. We would actually see and experience these ruqya diagnostic reactions and no one has said that it does not work. This is one of the things that I miss from being ill with a spiritual disease. It is the only time in my life that my dua (ie ruqya here) would always be answered and I would feel and see the ruqya diagnostic reactions which were the sign that Allah had answered my ruqya. The second similarity is to do with the timing of the ruqya. We would usually see our ruqya diagnosis being answered by Allah in a few minutes ie after a few minutes we would see or feel the ruqya reactions. Likewise, the Sahaba would see their ruqya treatment being answered in a few minutes ie they would get the cure in a few minutes. The last similarity is to do with not having any lingering doubts in the final ruqya result. I have no doubt that I am cured and that is because I trust the ruqya diagnosis that I did. I know it works because of my experience, my students’ experiences and even my patients’ experiences. This is why, by the mercy of Allah, I can say that I am 100% cured by Allah, with no doubt in my heart, as I didn’t react to the ruqya diagnosis. The Sahaba also didn’t have any doubts when they had completed their ruqya treatment. Therefore, even though our ruqya is no way near the Sahaba’s quality, it does have some similarities that are there to encourage us to do ruqya diagnosis. I believe that this is all to do with the mercy of Allah in order for us to never be saddened or think that Allah has not helped us. Yes, our ruqya treatment is not like the Sahaba’s but at least Allah has given us ruqya diagnosis to solve our problems with the spiritual diseases.


Looking at and examining these three similarities between our ruqya diagnosis and the Sahaba’s ruqya treatment, we can say that we have more right to claim that we are closer to following the Sahaba’s ruqya than those who ONLY practise ruqya treatment today. This is because our ruqya diagnosis shares some similarities to the Sahaba’s ruqya treatment whereas their ruqya treatment shares NOTHING with Sahaba’s ruqya treatment in terms of practical ruqya results. Yes, their ruqya treatment shares some similarities with the Sahaba’s in terms “no shirk” and other Shariah rulings but our ruqya diagnosis and even ruqya treatment also share these rulings with the Sahaba’s as well so there is no point in mentioning this here in this discussion. We are discussing ruqya outcomes and results so lets please just stick to that! If you really want to get some of the benefits that Allah bestowed upon the Sahaba, in terms of practical ruqya results, then you should add ruqya diagnosis to your ruqya methodology. At least then, you can claim some equivalence to the Sahaba’s practical ruqya results, but not until then!

In summary, our ruqya treatment is not as strong as the Sahaba’s and therefore, it will take a long time for the patient to get the cure so in the meantime, we need to use ruqya diagnosis in order to tell patients what is exactly wrong with them so that they can take appropriate actions, while they wait for the ruqya cure, such as searching for the taweez or getting the ayn perpetrator’s ghusl water or if they have the sihr of divorce then ignoring the waswas to divorce their spouse, etc. We also need ruqya diagnosis to help remove the problem of not knowing when we are actually cured from our spiritual diseases, unlike our beloved Sahaba who never had this problem. Additionally, we have to consider the possibility of having to deal with new spiritual diseases that didn’t occur in the time of the Sahaba. We can only discover and deal with these new spiritual diseases by using ruqya diagnosis.
The Sahaba were blessed with brilliant firasah, truthful dreams and amazing karamah, which helped them. They used their karamah for ruqya treatment and probably used their firasah and dreams to diagnose the spiritual diseases and to know when they were cured. They also had the option of going to the Nabi (salalahu alayhi wasalam) to diagnose them. The majority of us cannot compete with them in the first three and we all certainly can’t compete with them in their companionship of the Nabi (salalahu alayhi wasalam). Hence, that is why the majority of us need ruqya diagnosis to help us with our spiritual diseases.
Those who practise ruqya diagnosis and combine it with ruqya treatment have more right to claim that their ruqya methodology is closer to following the Sahaba’s ruqya than those who ONLY practise ruqya treatment. This is because those who only do ruqya treatment have NO similarities, in terms of results, to the Sahaba’s ruqya treatment, whereas our ruqya diagnosis has some similarities to Sahaba’s ruqya treatment as mentioned earlier.

Looking at the reality of the Sahaba’s ruqya treatment and ours, we must ask those who don’t want to do ruqya diagnosis SEVEN direct questions:

WHY DO YOU CLAIM YOUR RUQYA TREATMENT IS LIKE THE SAHABA’S, WHEN IT TAKES YOU A LONG TIME TO GET THE CURE?

HOW IS IT THAT YOUR RUQYA TREATMENT CAUSES RUQYA REACTIONS BUT THE SAHABA’S DIDN’T?

HOW COME SOME OF YOUR PATIENTS COMPLAIN ABOUT THINKING THAT THEY WERE ACTUALLY CURED BUT THEN LATER ON, REALISE THAT THEY WEREN’T ACTUALLY CURED, WHILE THE SAHABA NEVER COMPLAINED LIKE THIS?

HOW COME YOUR PATIENTS ARE REALLY CONFUSED ABOUT HOW TO KNOW WHEN THEY ARE CURED, WHEN THE SAHABA WERE NEVER CONFUSED ABOUT THIS?

HOW COME YOUR PATIENTS COMPLAIN ABOUT NUMEROUS AND DIFFERENT RUQYA REACTIONS, WHILE THE SAHABA NEVER COMPLAINED ABOUT EVEN ONE?

WHAT DO THE RUQYA REACTIONS ACTUALLY MEAN IN OUR LIFE? (The Sahaba never had to think about the answer to this question)My own answer to this question is: In short, the ruqya reactions are our sign from Allah that the patient has a spiritual disease. (The evidence that the ruqya reactions are from Allah is taken from the ijma of the scholars. I discuss this understanding later in this article).

HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO USE THE RUQYA REACTIONS IN OUR LIFE? (Again, the Sahaba never had to think about the answer to this question). My own answer to this question is: In short, the ruqya reactions are supposed to be used for diagnosis ie to let us know what spiritual disease a patient has and to know when a patient is actually cured. For example, if a patient reacts to ayn ruqya then we can say that they have ayn. If a patient doesn’t react then we can say they are cured.
Obviously, you cannot answers these questions without admitting that you were wrong to claim that your ruqya is like the Sahaba’s. You will have to just accept that your ruqya treatment is not like theirs!
If you insist on just doing ruqya treatment and don’t want to consider using ruqya diagnosis to help Muslims because you believe that you are following the Sahaba then I would say to you that you are doing a disservice to your Muslim brothers and sisters and making their life more difficult, when you don’t have any legitimate excuse to not do ruqya diagnosis to help them. Your understanding of ruqya may lead to spouses divorcing because you won’t advise them to do ruqya diagnosis for the sihr of divorce and it may even lead someone to die from ayn, since they won’t search and ask for the ayn perpetrator’s ghusl water. Your claim that ruqya treatment is all the same and it doesn’t matter what you have is only really applicable to the Sahaba and not to us! We need to know what we are suffering from so that we can treat ourselves more comprehensively. If patients know that they have ayn or the sihr of divorce or other spiritual diseases, then it makes a huge difference in their lives and in their treatment!

THE EVIDENCE FOR RUQYA DIAGNOSIS & THE FACT THAT IT IS NOT A BIDAH!

There are some who believe that ruqya diagnosis is not important and that ruqya treatment is what should be offered immediately to patients. They don’t or can’t see any benefit in the diagnosis of the spiritual diseases and they may even believe that ruqya diagnosis is a bidah and that there is no evidence for it. I have even read someone saying that you can’t really know what spiritual ailment you are suffering from because that is part of the ‘unseen’.

Sadly, many Muslims cannot grasp the fact that the concept of attempting to diagnose spiritual ailments is completely permissible and not haram. Just because they are unseen, it does not mean that we cannot try to work out how to diagnose them.

To those who say that it is not important to know if you have a spiritual disease and that ruqya treatment should just be done then we would reply by saying that knowing exactly what you have means that you can treat yourself more comprehensively! Yes, the ruqya treatment would be basically the same for spiritual and physical diseases but other treatments would not be the same. For example, once I know that I have the sihr of divorce then I would search for the taweez and ignore the waswas to divorce my spouse. Once I know I don’t have sihr or jinn possession then my mental or psychological problems can be treated by a psychiatrist.

If it was not important to know if you have sihr or any other spiritual disease then please explain why did the Nabi (salalahu alayhi wasalam) make a dua to Allah so he could know what was exactly wrong with him and why did the angels tell him that he had sihr and why did they tell him where the taweez was and who did the sihr on him. If all of this was not important then why did they give him all this information. They could have just said to him that it is not important to know what he is suffering from and that the Nabi (salalahu alayhi wasalam) should just do ruqya treatment on himself but they didn’t do that (Bukhari 3268 & Muslim 2189). What we can take from this hadith is that it is not a pointless pursuit to find out what you are suffering from and that is because our Nabi (salalahu alayhi wasalam) did exactly that and he NEVER did pointless and useless things! Indeed, we can also say that the concept or idea of using ruqya to diagnose ourselves is not alien or farfetched and is in fact, permissible because if it is permissible to make a normal dua to find out what is wrong with us, as the Nabi (salalahu alayhi wasalam) did, then therefore, it is also permissible to do ruqya with the intention of asking Allah to diagnose us. This is because ruqya and normal dua share similarities. Whoever says that this only applies to normal dua and not ruqya then we would say that you must bring evidence for that because the scholars did not say that ruqya is only for treatment as we will see later in this article. It is better to say that those who are interested in knowing what they are suffering from (which is basically diagnosis) are more in line with the Sunnah than those who do not want to find out.

It seems that some Muslims’ failure in diagnosing spiritual ailments, has led them to believe that it is impossible to do or if anyone attempts to do it then they are doing a bidah. Their failures in being unable to diagnose spiritual diseases, has caused them to believe that such an endeavour or pursuit is a complete waste of time and that nobody should try to do it ie if they couldn’t do it then no one can. They support their claims with the fact that since they are unseen then no one can diagnose them and if someone does say he can diagnose them then he must be a sahir or fortune teller or bogus raqi or a man of bidah who works with jinn. ALL OF THIS BELIEF STEMMING FROM THEIR OWN INADEQUACIES AND FAILURES IN DIAGNOSING THE SPIRITUAL AILMENTS.

The very fact that it is permissible to diagnose physical diseases is enough proof that it is also permissible to diagnose spiritual diseases. This is because the Shariah doesn’t make any special distinction or differentiation between the two types of diseases. In general, what is permissible for one of them is also permissible for the other. The Shariah doesn’t forbid us or condemn us for trying or attempting to diagnose ANY disease, be it physical or spiritual. The Shariah doesn’t treat spiritual diseases differently from physical diseases ie giving them special rules and regulations just because they are UNSEEN. Hence, if we are allowed to diagnose physical diseases then by default, we are also allowed to diagnose spiritual diseases. The fact that some people don’t know how to diagnose spiritual diseases or the fact that the method of diagnosis for spiritual diseases is different, is completely irrelevant to the argument and doesn’t change the reality that it is permissible to try to diagnose spiritual ailments just because it is permissible to diagnose physical aliments.

The evidence for ruqya diagnosis is the hadith of the Nabi (salalahu alayhi wasalam) making a normal dua to Allah to show or explain to him what was wrong with him, when he was suffering from sihr, which is basically a type of diagnosis (Bukhari: 3268). The Nabi salalahu alayhi wasalam definitely knew that there was some kind of illness that he was suffering from. This is why the Nabi salalahu alayhi wasalam says in this hadith, immediately after his long dua was answered: “I feel that Allah has inspired me as how to CURE myself” (Bukhari: 3268). So since the Nabi salalahu alayhi wasalam used the word “Shifaa’ee” (cure myself) after the long dua and dream, we know that the long dua must have been about asking Allah to diagnose an unknown illness he was suffering from, which we later find out to be sihr from this same hadith. If it was not about an illness, he would not have used the word “cure myself”. This word itself is only really used in a discussion or conversation, when we are talking about a disease or illness that needs to be treated. So it cannot be argued that the dua, the Nabi salalahu alayhi wasalam, made in this hadith was not a diagnostic dua. It definitely was a diagnostic dua and the wording “cure myself” clearly proves that understanding. He was asking Allah to diagnose him and so Allah answered him by giving him this dream that is mentioned in this hadith (Bukhari: 3268). This dream basically told the Nabi salalahu alayhi wasalam that he had sihr.

Now, from this same hadith, if it is permissible to make a normal dua to Allah to diagnose our disease, as the Nabi (salalahu alayhi wasalam) did, ie to show us what is wrong with us in a dream or by other permissible means (Bukhari: 3268), then it is completely permissible to make ruqya with the same intention of diagnosis and this is because ruqya is a type of dua that deals exclusively with diseases and it is not meant for anything else. If it is permissible to make a normal dua to diagnose ourselves then it is also permissible to make ruqya to diagnose ourselves ie by using ruqya to diagnose, we have not gone outside of what ruqya is supposed to be used for in the Shariah. If you can use normal dua for diagnosis of a disease then surely you can use ruqya to diagnose a disease because ruqya is meant for dealing with diseases. What is permissible in normal dua is usually also applicable and permissible in ruqya provided that it is to do with diseases because ruqya is ONLY for diseases, whereas normal dua is notIn other words, if we can ask Allah to give us a truthful dream to diagnose our disease (and we can only really ask this because truthful dreams are only from Allah and NOT from the Shaytan) then likewise, we can also ask Allah to create ruqya reactions in our bodies, thereby diagnosing ourselves because it is ONLY Allah who creates the ruqya reactions in our bodies, when the ruqya is according to the Sunnah and no Shaytan can disrupt this process of ruqya reactions.

In short, the Nabi salalahu alayhi wasalam made a diagnostic dua to Allah and Allah answered his dua by giving him a truthful dream. However, for us during ruqya, there is a difference. We ask Allah via a diagnostic ruqya and Allah answers our ruqya diagnosis with ruqya reactions. So the ruqya reactions have taken the place of a truthful dream. They are similar to a truthful dream because they are both from Allah. I will explain why the ruqya reactions are from Allah and the evidence for that, later on in this article. So please carry on reading, if you want to understand the phenomenon of ruqya reactions in our religion and how they can be used to prove if someone has sihr or prove if someone is cured from sihr.

The main reason that allows us to take an example of a normal dua use and apply it directly to ruqya and then do the exact same thing in ruqya, is because the example of the normal dua use is to do with diseases. If this condition of a disease was absent then we would not be able to make the leap and connect the Nabi’s (salalahu alayhi wasalam) normal dua to our ruqya diagnosis. We are able to make this connection because ruqya is only for dealing with diseases. That is to say that we can make a normal dua for rain or a new job but we can’t make ruqya for rain and a new job because ruqya is only for diseases! So since the Nabi’s (salalahu alayhi wasalam) normal dua was for diagnosing a disease then therefore we can also read ruqya with the intention of diagnosing a disease because ruqya was legislated to deal with diseases.

If you just ponder on what I just said in the above two paragraphs then the only conclusion that you can come to regarding ruqya diagnosis is that it is permissible to do! AGAIN, IF WE CAN ASK ALLAH TO SHOW US A DREAM TO SEE IF WE GOT SIHR BECAUSE IT IS ONLY ALLAH WHO CAN SHOW US A TRUE DREAM (AND THE SHAYTAN CAN’T INTERFERE IN THIS), THEN WE CAN ALSO ASK ALLAH TO SHOW US RUQYA REACTIONS TO SEE IF WE GOT SIHR BECAUSE RUQYA IS ONLY FOR DISEASES AND IT IS ONLY ALLAH WHO CAN SHOW US TRUE RUQYA REACTIONS (AND THE SHAYTAN CAN’T INTERFERE IN THIS AS WELL)!

After all that I have mentioned, if it is still not clear to you the permissibility of ruqya diagnosis then think about treatment! We all accept that it is permissible to make a normal dua to Allah to cure us from sihr and we also know that it is permissible to make ruqya with the intention for Allah to cure us from sihr. Now here, you don’t have a problem with seeing a clear relationship between these two types of dua when it comes to the treatment of sihr because both are dealing with a type of disease. You also don’t have a problem with making a normal dua to Allah to diagnose you for sihr via a dream or any other means because the Nabi (salalahu alayhi wasalam) did that…..Then, why do you have a problem with reading ruqya with the intention of asking Allah to diagnose you when you have already accepted diagnosis with just a normal dua? You cannot have two different standards and apply certain rules for the treatment of sihr but then apply another set of different rules for the diagnosis of sihr, when we are dealing with the same acts of worship and even the same disease! Can’t you see that I am still restricting ruqya to dealing with diseases so I can’t see why you have a problem. In Islam, you must be consistent when it comes to the application of the rules of the Shariah! In other words, you have accepted a normal dua for the treatment of sihr and you also accepted ruqya for the treatment of sihr AND you have even accepted making a normal dua to get a sihr diagnosis from Allah via a dream! Then what is actually stopping you from going the extra length and applying the same understanding you have for the treatment of sihr to the actual diagnosis of sihr and allowing yourself to do ruqya diagnosis for sihr, when you already know that the ruqya is only for dealing with diseases? If you cannot answer this question then know that ruqya diagnosis is permissible! How is it that you can accept a normal dua for the treatment of sihr and ruqya for the treatment of sihr and even accept a normal dua for the diagnosis of sihr BUT THEN YOU REJECT THE RUQYA DIAGNOSIS FOR SIHR WHEN YOU ALREADY KNOW THE PURPOSE OF RUQYA IS TO JUST DEAL WITH DISEASES! It just doesn’t make sense at all and is not consistent and it is not in line with the Shariah’s rules for dua.

I pray to Allah and hope that you are not rejecting ruqya diagnosis just because you are set in your ways and don’t want to change your ruqya methodology. I hope you are not rejecting ruqya diagnosis because you don’t want to admit that you were wrong about ruqya diagnosis. I hope you are not rejecting ruqya diagnosis because it means that you have to spend a lot of time learning new information on how to actually do ruqya diagnosis and all the knowledge that goes with that. I hope you are not rejecting ruqya diagnosis because you are embarrassed to tell your patients and students that you were wrong about ruqya diagnosis. I hope you are not rejecting ruqya diagnosis because you can’t accept that you have to sit and humble yourself and learn from brothers who practise ruqya diagnosis but these poor brothers are not well-known speakers or are very ignorant in other aspects of the deen.

This understanding of making an intention to diagnose, a patient with ruqya, does not go against the hadith of ‘actions are only by intentions’ (Bukhari) and that is because this hadith of intentions itself, does not prevent new intentions from being invented, as we will see later in this article. So if a new intention is in accordance with the Shariah, then it cannot be labelled a bidah, just because it is new. Additionally, this intention for diagnosis does not go against the actual definition of ruqya in the Shariah and that it is basically a dua of seeking the refuge/help of Allaah against diseases ie an incantation (word(s)), which is recited with the intention of causing a positive effect on a disease and it is not restricted to just treatment. (This succinct definition is a combination of definitions of ruqya that I have taken from several sources in Arabic and English). Therefore, if someone has the intention to diagnose himself, this intention does not go against the definition of what ruqya is, nor does it go against how the hadith of intentions can be used in a different and new context and on top of that, this intention, itself, has a bases in the Sunnah as the Nabi (salalahu alayhi wasalam) asked Allah to basically show and guide him so he could know what was wrong with him, which is diagnosis in a nutshell.

Every ruqya must follow the rules of ruqya, ie “no shirk” (Muslim: 2200) and it has to be beneficial to the patient (Al-Albani: Saheeh Jam’i 6019). This understanding of what ruqya is allowed, means that ruqya can include diagnosis and it has NOT been restricted to just “treatment”. There is absolutely no evidence from the Quran and Sunnah that says that ruqya is only for treatment and that it cannot be used for diagnosis. Therefore, it is possible for us to read ruqya for the purpose of diagnosis of spiritual ailments, if it is needed, as this does not go outside of the definition and understanding of what ruqya is in the Shariah and nor does it go against these two hadiths ie ruqya diagnosis is beneficial and it does not contain shirk.

This understanding of ruqya not being restricted to just “treatment” is reflected in what the scholars actually agreed upon about the permissible ruqya.

Al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar (may Allah have mercy on him) said in Fathul Bari Vol 10: Page 195: The scholars are unanimously agreed that ruqya is permissible, if three conditions are met:

1. It should be done by reciting the words of Allah, may He be exalted, or His names and attributes.

2. And in Arabic or in a language the meaning of which is understood.

3. And with the belief that ruqyah has no effect in and of itself; rather it is only effective by the will of Allah, may He be exalted.

As you can see, the scholars did NOT agree that ruqya is ONLY for treatment ie they did not restrict ruqya to just treatment. So if someone decides to do ruqya diagnosis, then they cannot be stopped from doing it. What we can say here, is that ruqya diagnosis follows what the scholars agreed upon and no one can say that it doesn’t! 

This understanding of the scholars’ ijma, that ruqya is NOT just for treatment, is probably why every competent and knowledgeable raqi that I know doesn’t have a problem with ruqya being used as a means to diagnose patients. Hence, they perform some sort ruqya diagnosis to check patients for spiritual diseases, especially if they are confused about a case. They would read ruqya diagnosis over a patient to see if they react thereby removing confusion. They may not use the exact term ruqya diagnosis but that is what they are actually doing. To illustrate this fact of doing ruqya diagnosis but not actually calling it ruqya diagnosis, look at what Sheikh Dr Abu’l-Mundir Khaleel ibn Ibraaheem Ameen says in his book “The Jinn & Human Sickness” pages 92 – 93. (English translation: First Edition: June 2005. Published by Darussalam, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, who only generally produce books that are approved by Saudi scholars)

After mentioning a number questions a raqi could ask a patient to aid diagnosis, he says:
“After asking these questions, the practitioner may come to one or two conclusions:
 
1 – He may be able to diagnose the cause of the problem quickly 
 
2 – Or he may be confused about the matter”
He then mentions treating jinn possession and witchcraft with ruqya when they case has been diagnosed. He then says on page 93:
 
“If the practitioner is confused, then he must do the following: Reciting Ruqya“. 
Obviously, “reciting ruqya” here means reciting ruqya diagnosis even though he hasn’t called it ruqya diagnosis because it is being used to remove the confusion of the practitioner, who doesn’t know if the patient is suffering from jinn possession or not and thus is reciting the ruqya to see if there is a reaction from the patient. This point is further illustrated and proven by the fact that he says on page 106 of the same book:
“After reciting this ruqya, there are three possible outcomes:
 
1. The patient will experience a seizure and the jinn will speak.
2. The patient will not experience a seizure, but some sign will appear which indicates that the problem is caused by the jinn.
3. Nothing will happen to him, in which case the problem is medical or psychological”.
Points 1 and 2 above, are describing the type of reactions a patient might get from this ruqya the Sheikh suggested, while Point 3 describes no reactions from ruqya. Hence, it can clearly be seen in these quotes that ruqya is being used by this Sheikh to diagnose jinn possession. And as I said earlier, most knowledgeable raqis do the same as this Sheikh. This book has been published for a number years and from my knowledge no scholar of repute has ever condemn this Sheikh’s practice of using ruqya to diagnose jinn possession, nor have I ever heard a scholar say that using ruqya to diagnose jinn possession or sihr is haram. So I must ask those Muslims who are totally against ruqya diagnosis to explain why they don’t do it while it is accepted and widely done, and why do they see my use of it as something strange and not ideal.

As a result of this use of ruqya that I highlighted and stated from the aforementioned book, we can say that according to this book, reading ruqya with the intention of asking Allah to ‘show us reactions if the patient has jinn possession’ is a form of ruqya diagnosis and that reading ruqya with the intention of asking Allah to ‘cure the patient from jinn possession’, is a form of ruqya treatment. I will present an even more comprehensive definition of ruqya diagnosis and treatment later on in this article but this definition will suffice for now.

Ruqya Diagnosis is based on five principles and evidences: (1) the hadith of the Nabi (salalahu alayhi wasalam) making a normal dua to Allah to show or explain to him what was wrong with him, when he was suffering from sihr, which is basically a type of diagnosis (Bukhari: 3268), (2) the ijma or consensus of the scholars which doesn’t restrict ruqya to just treatment, (3) the understanding and application of the hadith of intentions, (4) the knowledge that ruqya is basically a dua of seeking the help of Allah against diseases, that must NOT contain shirk (Muslim: 5732) and must be beneficial to the patient (Al-Albani: Saheeh Jam’i 6019) and lastly (5) that Allah creates ruqya reactions in a patient, who has a spiritual disease, when ruqya is read on them (hence, we ask Allah to “show us” if a spiritual disease is present via ruqya reactions). So knowing these principles and evidences, is there really a problem if someone asks Allah and reads ruqya with the intention: ‘O Allah show me if I have sihr through my recitation of ruqya upon myself’. If some people say that they have never seen this before and therefore, this intention and subsequent action of ruqya, must be a bidah, then we would say to them where exactly is the bidah and can you explain to us how it is a bidah when the Nabi salalahu alayhi wasalam made a similar dua when he was suffering from sihr (Bukhari 3268) and on top of that, I have never heard a scholar call ruqya diagnosis a bidah and many reputable scholars actually do it? They wouldn’t be able answer this question satisfactorily because they haven’t understood the flexibility of this particular hadith (Bukhari 3268) and that it can also apply to ruqya diagnosis. Next, we would ask them: “Is there any shirk in the intention: O Allah show me if I have sihr”? They would have to say ‘No’. We would then say to them, is it WRONG to make that dua to Allah? They may say ‘Yes it is because there is no evidence for it’, then, we would say that we have already given you the evidence of the Nabi salalahu alayhi wasalam making a similar dua, which is enough evidence. Just because a dua or an intention are NEW and not found, word-for-word, in the sunnah, they do not become a bidah just because of this and the general meaning of aforementioned hadith is sufficient to prove ruqya diagnosis (Bukhari: 3268). Do they expect every possible dua and intention to be stated in the Shariah word-for-word! This would make things difficult! THE SHARIAH HAS NOT WRITTEN DOWN ALL THE POSSIBLE DUAS OR INTENTIONS THAT WE CAN MAKE IN RUQYA, WORD-FOR-WORD, but it has laid down some rules and regulations that we need to follow when making our duas and intentions, such as avoiding shirk and showing off. So a NEW dua or NEW intention for ruqya that a Muslim introduces can never be a real bidah, just because the dua or intention is NEW and not found word-for-word in the Sunnah! It needs more than that to become a true bidah. In the end, those people who reject ruqya diagnosis, have to accept that there is no real reason to stop someone having an intention to diagnose themselves for spiritual diseases because this intention itself has a bases in the Sunnah (Bukhari 3268) and the subsequent action of ruqya diagnosis with this intention has NOT gone against any of the rules of ruqya that have been stated in the Shariah. Indeed, this is the main point: ruqya diagnosis doesn’t go against the rules of ruqya that are in the Shariah. Ruqya has been legislated to allow some flexibility, hence the use of ruqya as diagnostic tool by many raqis and scholars.

The ruqya diagnosis intention “O Allah, show me if I have sihr” which becomes a dua of ruqya when it is read with the Quran, is included in the general saying of the Nabi salulahu alayhi wasalam: “Whoever among you is able to benefit his brother then let him benefit him” (Al-Albani: Saheeh Jam’i 6019). This is because in this general ruqya hadith, ruqya is NOT restricted or fixed to certain duas or intentions so therefore we can invent our own duas and intentions for ruqya provided that they don’t contain shirk and that they benefit the patient as the hadith mentions. No one can deny that it is extremely beneficial to know if you have sihr and that is because once you know, then you can start treating yourself. Knowing this diagnosis about sihr is especially important, if you are a married person.

This above understanding is discussed in the fatwa below. In it, you will see that the scholars who wrote the fatwa said that some other scholars were of the view that any ruqya that benefits is permissible to use. No doubt they took this condition of “benefit” from the above hadith itself and indeed, the ruqya has to be beneficial. However, there is also the condition that it must be free of shirk (Muslim: 5732), which these other scholars failed to include as a condition. Anyway, the main point here, from the fatwa, is that if the ruqya is beneficial and it doesn’t contain any shirk or lead to shirk then it can be used on a patient, hence, we can do ruqya diagnosis and it is not a bidah because it is according to the rules of ruqya that are stated in the Sunnah.

https://islamqa.info/en/answers/175189/selection-of-verses-and-supplications-for-incantation-purposes

We need to point out that in this above hadith (Al-Albani: Saheeh Jam’i 6019), it is recommended to help your Muslim brother or sister with beneficial ruqya that helps them fight their disease. After ruqya treatment, I cannot think of a more beneficial ruqya than ruqya diagnosis, especially certain ruqya diagnoses that actually help the Muslims in their deen, such as the ruqya diagnosis for the sihr of divorce. We can also argue that the hadith can be used as evidence for us to use our experience and to be creative and to invent ruqyas that are going to be beneficial and helpful to the Muslims because the Nabi salalahu alayhi wasalam asked the Sahaba to present their ruqyas so that he could see if they were Islamic and beneficial, ie their experience in making ruqyas was not being criticised and they were, in fact, being encouraged to carry on being creative in ruqya as long as it helped their Muslim brother and it wasn’t against Islam. Ruqya diagnosis can definitely be seen as one of these creative and beneficial ruqyas that helps Muslims as it uses the experience that the spiritual diseases react to ruqya and the fact that ruqya is not just for treatment. We have to remember that the Nabi salalahu alayhi wasalam did not restrict ruqya to just treatment in this hadith (or in any other hadith) but he allowed ANY RUQYA that didn’t contain shirk and which benefitted the Muslim patient. We have to also remember that ruqya was practiced before Islam and that the Shariah did not come to prohibit it but it came to regulate it and remove from it those things that were against Islam. Hence, to practise ruqya diagnosis is more in line with the said hadith and the encouragement of the Nabi (salalahu alayhi wasalam), as it provides MORE beneficial ruqya to the Muslim patients than just ruqya treatment.

The reason these two above hadiths (Muslim: 5732 & Jam’i: 6019) are very broad and general in meaning is so that ruqya can effectively deal with the many different kinds of diseases and even any new disease that might appear. They also allow us to adapt the application of ruqya to changing contexts or situations. For instance, this broadness allows us to invent or develop different methods to get the ruqya to the disease directly. So someone with bowel problems might read ruqya on his food instead of water so that the ruqya can get to the colon and stay there for longer. Likewise, someone with a blood disease, after consulting doctors, might read ruqya over the liquid contents in an intravenous medication or drip to get the ruqya directly into the blood. Another example would be a raqi doing ruqya over the phone or using videophone. If the application of ruqya was not as broad, then we would not be allowed to do such things, but by the mercy of Allah it is, so we can do such actions and not worry about falling into sin because of a bidah in ruqya.

Those who say that doing ruqya diagnosis is not allowed have not understood that ruqya is quite broad in scope and it is not restricted as they see it. It seems that they see it, like the way they see salah and therefore they request that you prove every single action you do in ruqya with a hadith. However, if they understood the broadness of the two aforementioned hadiths, they would not constantly ask to prove every issue in ruqya. They have to make a distinction between ruqya and the other fixed acts of worship like salah. Yes, ruqya is a fixed act of worship but it is not as fixed as salah and that is because it is a type of medicine that needs flexibility so that it can deal with any disease and any situation. Hence, the accusations of bidah in ruqya are not as easy to establish as they are with salah. Yes, we can fall into bidah with ruqya but it is easier to do bidah in salah. Therefore, we must see ruqya like the way we see the reading of the Quran, the listening to the Quran and making dua. All three are fixed acts of worship but they have some flexibility so they can deal with different situations and contexts. This is how we need to see ruqya.

This is the understanding of Sheikh Bin Baz (rahimullah) and other scholars and that is why they believe you can read ruqya over a mixture of sidr leaves and water to treat sihr and they do not see this as a bidah (See below for the fatwa). There are no hadiths about reading ruqya over sidr leaves but that does not matter as the aforementioned 2 ruqya hadiths cover this situation. If we take on this understanding of ruqya that Sheikh Bin Baz (rahimullah) has, then a lot of arguing between the Muslims would stop and they would stop accusing each other of bidah and then patients would receive better care.

https://islamqa.info/en/answers/91627/treatment-for-one-who-is-unable-to-have-intercourse-with-his-wife [1]

For my dear brothers and sisters who still feel that we can never really know if a person is possessed or not because this is to do with the ‘unseen’ then I sincerely say to them to carefully ponder on the definition of ruqya and its Shariah conditions, and then to look carefully at the hadith of intentions and then you will hopefully see that the combination of these will allow us to diagnose jinn possession in a patient. And this is all because spiritual ailments, like jinn possession, ONLY react to ruqya while physical ailments don’t react to ruqya at all (ie for physical ailments like cancer or diabetes, the patients can’t feel or detect any reaction during ruqya), and so by the mercy of Allah, the unseen spiritual ailments can be detected via ruqya. It is Allah who causes the ruqya to affect spiritual ailments ie making them produce physical symptoms and obviously we must be thankful and make use of Allah’s mercy here. If it weren’t for Allah, we would never know if someone had a spiritual disease or not.


USING THE CONSENSUS OF SCHOLARS (IJMA) TO PROVE THAT THE RUQYA REACTIONS OF THE PATIENT & AFFLICTED RAQI ARE FROM ALLAH

We must ask those people, who are totally against using ruqya as a diagnostic tool, to explain to us why they think Allah responds to the ruqya for the spiritual diseases and creates reactions inside the patient but he does not do this for the physical diseases? Is this action of Allah FRIVOLOUS! (not having any serious purpose). Is this action not done by the MOST WISE (Al-Hakeem) who is in control of everything and everyone. Definitely, Allah knows what he is doing and he doesn’t do anything without a good reason. Are they aware of this phenomenon or are they totally ignorant of this fact and reality! Do they think that Allah has the ability to make the physical diseases react to ruqya? Obviously, he can do this, but Allah chooses not to do this because he has already given us the ability to diagnose the physical aliments without the help of ruqya. Indeed, Allah knows that we cannot detect the spiritual diseases with our 5 senses SO THEREFORE, HE HELPS US DETECT THEM VIA RUQYA. The smart Muslim raqi is he who has insight into this matter and knows that the actions of Allah are NEVER FRIVOLOUS. This raqi has wisdom and recognises that this is a gift and mercy from Allah and then he uses it to help his Muslim brothers and sisters! This is similar to the way Allah has gifted this latter generation of the Ummah with true dreams. We are so far away from the Nabi salalahu alayhi wasalam that Allah helps us with true dreams to give us hope and to support us and to make us steadfast in our religion. This is how the scholars explained the topic of true dreams in the latter times of the Ummah. Likewise, the ruqya reactions are there to help us diagnose ourselves because we don’t have the diagnosis of the Nabi salalahu alayhi wasalam nor the Sahaba!

It is NOT rocket science! If you cannot understand the reason why Allah makes the spiritual ailments react to ruqya and how to use this gift from Allah to help Muslims, then frankly speaking, you should not be in the field of ruqya because you will cause more harm than good! That is because when you are asked certain important questions by Muslim patients, such as “Do I have sihr or ayn?” or “Am I possessed”? or “I don’t know why I feel like divorcing my brilliant and lovely spouse – so do I have the sihr of divorce?” or “I feel like leaving my job – is this waswas from the possessing jinn?” or “Am I cured from sihr, yet?” Etc. You will say: “I don’t know” or “I am not sure” and such a response may cause Muslims to do something that they eventually regret.

Allah is not frivolous! He has caused us and other Muslims to experience ruqya reactions but he didn’t allow the Sahaba to feel them. We know this because there are no hadiths or sayings of the Sahaba talking about ruqya reactions. We cannot say the possessing jinn are causing these reactions because sometimes there are patients who just have ayn (evil eye) and their bodies still react to ruqya so the reactions can’t be from possessing jinn because they don’t have any jinn possession. These reactions can’t even be from the qareen because the qareen doesn’t react to ruqya. We know this because when someone is completely cured from all spiritual diseases, their body no longer reacts to ruqya, even though they still have a qareen in them ie a normal person with a qareen doesn’t react to ruqya. We all have qareens in us, as the well known hadith mentions, but these qareens don’t react to ruqya from our experience of dealing with cured patients and normal non-patients. Therefore, we must ask those doubters or skeptics, who keep blaming the jinn for ruqya reactions: “What is causing the reactions in patients who don’t have jinn possession?” The only sensible and logical answer they can give is that the ruqya reactions must be from Allah, who is answering the dua of ruqya! There is obviously a wisdom behind us getting these ruqya reactions from Allah during ruqya and to know this wisdom, we need to speak to the scholars and specialists in this field of ruqya.

The issue of understanding what the ruqya reactions are for and what they mean, is an issue for the scholars and raqis in our time and for scholars after the Sahaba because reactions during ruqya didn’t happen in the time of the Nabi salalahu alayhi wasalam or Sahaba radiullah anhum, meaning there are no reports of reactions during ruqya at their time so therefore we need to refer to the scholars on this issue. Just like we referred to the scholars during the time of Imam Ahmad and the fitna of the creation of the Quran. The people didn’t know how to respond to this fitna because there were no Islamic texts on it ie there were no hadiths or sayings of the Sahaba on this issue of the Quran being created so we must refer the issue to the scholars. When the scholars were asked for the hukm on the one who says the Quran is created, they declared that such a person is a kafir by ijma and that we must not believe the Quran is created. This ijma about the uncreated Quran became an independent piece of evidence that the Ummah followed.

Likewise, the issue of ruqya reactions must be referred to the scholars. When you speak to the scholars and raqis in this field, in our time, they will tell you about the ruqya reactions and that these effects are from Allah, when the ruqya is done according to the Sunnah. I, personally, don’t know any scholar or raqi who specialises in ruqya today that says the reactions are not from Allah and the Quran, when the ruqya is done according to the Sunnah. They all agree that the ruqya reactions are from Allah. There may be slight differences on the meaning of the reactions and how to use them but in the end, they agree the reactions are from Allah. In fact, for most raqis today, this understanding that the ruqya reactions are from Allah is how we know that someone is affected by sihr or not and this is how we know if someone is cured from sihr ie if they show reactions to ruqya for sihr then we say that they have sihr and if they don’t react to sihr ruqya, then we say that they don’t have sihr. And if they did react to ruqya for sihr in the past and then after some time they didn’t react at all, then we would say that they have been cured from sihr. What I have just written clearly illustrates the wisdom of ruqya reactions and the reason why Allah has created them for us.

This understanding of the scholars and raqis today about the ruqya reactions being from Allah can be extracted from the third point of what the scholars agreed upon regarding the permissible ruqya:
قال الحافظ ابن حجر رحمه الله :
” وَقَدْ أَجْمَعَ الْعُلَمَاء عَلَى جَوَاز الرُّقَى عِنْد اِجْتِمَاع ثَلَاثَة شُرُوط :
أَنْ يَكُون بِكَلَامِ اللَّه تَعَالَى أَوْ بِأَسْمَائِهِ وَصِفَاته , وَبِاللِّسَانِ الْعَرَبِيّ أَوْ بِمَا يُعْرَف مَعْنَاهُ مِنْ غَيْره , وَأَنْ يَعْتَقِد أَنَّ الرُّقْيَة لَا تُؤْثَر بِذَاتِهَا بَلْ بِذَاتِ اللَّه تَعَالَى .

Al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar (may Allah have mercy on him) said in Fathul Bari Vol 10: Page 195: The scholars are unanimously agreed that ruqya is permissible, if three conditions are met:

1. It should be done by reciting the words of Allah, may He be exalted, or His names and attributes.

2. And in Arabic or in a language the meaning of which is understood.

3. And with the belief that ruqyah has no effect in and of itself; rather it is only effective by the will of Allah, may He be exalted.

This third statement that the scholars agreed upon is a very wise and general statement that includes anything beneficial that comes out from the application of the ruqya. According to this third statement of the scholars, the raqi and the one who is being read on must believe that the ruqya has “No effect” (La Tu’thar) in of itself and it is only Allah who causes it to have an effect. Therefore, if there is a beneficial effect from the ruqya then we must believe that it is from Allah. This third statement of the scholars means that if there is a cure via the ruqya then we must believe that Allah caused the cure. And if there was a benefit that the ruqya caused, such as the patient was able to breath or drink normally after the ruqya or that his mood and even family relationships improved, then we must believe that it was Allah who caused this beneficial effect. And if there are bodily reactions in a patient caused by the ruqya burning possessing jinn or the ruqya causes the patient’s eye lids to flicker or the ruqya causes limb movements of the patient or the ruqya causes the patient to vomit out sihr, then we must believe that Allah caused these effects, ie when the ruqya was read on the patient, the possessing jinn reacted to the ruqya and then the ruqya caused the limb movements or the patient’s ayn reacted to the ruqya and then the ruqya caused the eye lids to flicker. This is because Allah caused these reactions in the spiritual diseases, through the ruqya, which then resulted in the human bodily reactions, like limb movements or eye lids flickering. The spiritual diseases react to the ruqya and then we feel and see these reactions. Ultimately, all these reactions are from Allah! The spiritual diseases, including jinn possession, have NO CHOICE BUT TO REACT TO THE RUQYA and then we feel and see these reactions.

This third statement of the scholars also means the we cannot attribute to Allah any evil effect that had happened during the ruqya. So for example, if the patient’s jinn completely manifest and swear or hit the raqi or break a window then that is obviously not from Allah but from the possessing jinn themselves. This understanding makes complete sense because we do not attribute evil to Allah nor do we attribute evil to an act of worship that was legislated by Allah! We would NEVER say that dua can cause evil effects. Likewise, we should never say that ruqya causes evil effects or it can be dangerous.
This wise third statement of the scholars is clear guidance from Allah because the ijma, when proven to be correct, is an independent piece of evidence that can be used to prove something in the Shariah (as was done in the time of Imam Ahmad and the fitna of the creation of the Quran). You can clearly see the guidance from Allah because of the very fact that the scholars didn’t just agree on the “CURE” is only from Allah but rather they worded the third statement of ijma to be quite broad and encompassing enough to include other benefits that may be gained from the ruqya ie the scholars didn’t just restrict their third statement to only mean that the “CURE” is from Allah but their third statement can also include ruqya reactions and other benefits from ruqya. If you carefully ponder on this point then you will ultimately realise that this third statement of the scholars is the definitive proof that clarifies that the ruqya reactions are indeed from Allah and we don’t need any other evidence to prove this point! This means that we do not need a new ijma of scholars today to explain and prove to us that the reactions during ruqya are from Allah.
The scholars of the “Lajna Daaimah” in Saudi Arabia also narrate this important ijma (consensus).

                               وفي ” فتاوى اللجنة الدائمة ” ( 1 / 155 ) :

” أذن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم في الرقية بالقرآن والأذكار والأدعية ما لم تكن شركا أو كلاما لا يفهم معناه ؛ لما روى مسلم في صحيحه عن عوف بن مالك قال : ( كنا نرقي في الجاهلية فقلنا : يا رسول الله ، كيف ترى في ذلك ؟ فقال: اعرضوا علي رقاكم ، لا بأس بالرقى ما لم يكن فيها شرك ) .
وقد أجمع العلماء على جواز الرقى إذا كانت على الوجه المذكور آنفا ، مع اعتقاد أنها سبب لا تأثير له إلا بتقدير الله تعالى ” انتهى .
Again, at the end of this fatwa, they say a similar thing as the previous third statement of the scholars and that is that the ruqya has no effect except by the decree of Allah.
So in general this third statement of ijma of the scholars means that ALL ruqya reactions are caused by Allah, when the ruqya is according to the Shariah. This also includes those reactions that manifest in an afflicted raqi who is reading ruqya on others. This phenomenon is something that I myself have experienced! I would read ruqya on patients and I would not make any intention to read on myself and on the patients at the same time ie I was only making the intention to read ruqya on my patients but I would still get ruqya reactions as if someone was reading ruqya on me as well ie I felt I had also benefitted from the ruqya session even though I had made no intention for that! I used to believe that these reactions were caused by my possessing jinnee fighting me back because it was upset with me for doing ruqya on its brothers from the jinn ie I thought my possessing jinnee was attacking me because I was hurting its brothers. However, after speaking to one of my senior students, who convinced me to believe otherwise, I have now changed my opinion and now believe that those ruqya reactions that used to happen to me, while reading ruqya on patients, were in fact from Allah who was helping me against my own jinn possession via my own ruqya on patients. We can say that these reactions are from Allah because I would actually feel great after the ruqya session and I would benefit from it as if I was having ruqya myself. Hence, these reactions must be from Allah because of the very fact that they were beneficial to me and that they didn’t happen any other time except during my ruqya on my patients! This understanding of mine is in agreement with what the scholars agreed upon (The scholars have agreed that any beneficial effect from the ruqya itself is from Allah and so that includes these particular ruqya reactions of the afflicted raqi). This understanding is also true when the ruqya reactions of the raqi seem negative to him eg he feels slightly sick or even vomits after reading on his patients. This slight sickness or even vomiting after a ruqya session does not mean the ruqya was not beneficial! In fact, vomiting after ruqya can be a sign that the body is clearing itself from eaten sihr or other spiritual diseases. Hence, such reactions are classified as positive beneficial reactions even though they may not seem like that.
These reactions of an afflicted raqi during his ruqya on his patients would be considered as a sign of ruqya diagnosis or ruqya treatment depending on the raqi’s needs. So if the raqi didn’t know he was possessed or spiritually afflicted before reading on his patients and then during his ruqya on his patients, he starts reacting, eg limb movements, then his ruqya reactions from Allah would help him diagnose himself ie show him that he has a spiritual disease. If he already knows that he his afflicted then his ruqya reactions are a sign of ruqya treatment from Allah. This would be the most logical way of explaining what the ruqya reactions of an afflicted raqi actually mean in practice and this is ALL based on thinking well of Allah and giving the best explanation to the actions of Allah.
This new opinion of mine, regarding the raqi’s reactions, is in line with the ijma of the scholars! My previous opinion had no real bases in the Shariah and was just based on my gut feeling and experience.

This understanding of mine, regarding the afflicted raqi’s reactions during ruqya, is supported by two hadiths:

The Nabi salalahu alayhi wasalam said “The Muslim is the brother of a fellow Muslim. He shouldn’t oppress him nor should he hand him over to an oppressor. Whoever fulfilled the needs of his brother, Allah will fulfill his needs” (Bukhari: 2442)
Because the afflicted raqi is fulfilling the needs of his brother by doing ruqya on him so then Allah fulfills the raqi’s needs by turning the raqi’s ruqya into ruqya for the raqi as well. It is quite simple and this hadith proves it!
In another hadith that proves this understanding:
The Nabi salalahu alayhi wasalam said “And Allah is engaged in helping the worshipper as long as the worshipper is engaged in helping his brother” (Tirmidhi: 1425).
So this phenomenon of an afflicted raqi experiencing ruqya reactions is explained by the understanding of these two hadiths and the ijma of the scholars. What I have presented here is better than saying the raqi’s ruqya reactions are from external jinn attacks!
If you ponder on what I have said and the ijma of the scholars then you will realise and come to the conclusion that the jinn cannot stop or interfere with the sincere Sunnah ruqya ie the jinn cannot stop the beneficial effects of ruqya! How can we believe anything other than this, when we already believe that the cure via ruqya is from Allah and that any benefit gained from ruqya is from Allah. If we agree that the possessing jinn or any jinn cannot stop us from gaining a cure from ruqya, then how can we believe the jinn can stop us from benefitting from ruqya. If we said that the cure was from the jinn, then we would’ve committed shirk. Likewise, if we said the pain or burning of the jinn during Quran ruqya was caused by the jinn themselves and not the Quran, then we would have also committed shirk! Hence, we must not believe that the jinn can stop or interfere with our Sunnah ruqya as this would be shirk. This means that we must not believe the possessing jinn can “deflect ruqya” or “corrupt ruqya” or “intercept ruqya” or “hide in the body from the ruqya” or “stop the ruqya effects” or “stop the cure from ruqya”, etc. We would NEVER say such statements about our general duas or daily duas to Allah so we should not accept and say them about ruqya. You would never hear a Muslim say: “I asked Allah for help but the jinn interfered or stopped my dua from being heard by Allah or being accepted by Allah or the jinn didn’t allow the dua to go to Allah”. Every Muslim would question the belief of a person who said such statements. Hence, if we would never accept such statements about our normal duas to Allah then we should never accept similar statements about ruqya because, at the end of the day, ruqya is basically a dua of help to Allah!
There is actually NO evidence to say the possessing jinn and Shaytan can stop or interfere with our ruqya or even our duas. All the evidence in the Quran and the Sunnah is that Allah hears and responds to all our duas, be they general duas or ruqya. The main thing that can stop our duas and ruqya is our sins. So it’s our sins and not jinns that can prevent our dua and ruqya from being answered by Allah!
Having said all of this, it doesn’t mean the jinn cannot have some effects at the same time as the Quran is having its effects during a ruqya session. So sometimes to get some relief from the burning of the Quran, the possessing jinn will say “Do you want my help or I can help you” and the raqi might say “Yes, I want your help, tell us who did the sihr or where is the taweez” and the possessing jinn would say “So and So did the sihr” or “The sihr (taweez) is in the kitchen” or the possessing jinn could point to something or someone. We have to ignore these jinn distractions and not include them as ruqya reactions, even though, ultimately they were caused by the effects of the ruqya, because if we did follow these jinn distractions then we would have committed the shirk of seeking the help of the jinn, which we can’t do as explained in my article “The Problems of Jinn Catching”. Hence, these jinn distractions are not from Allah because if we followed them, then we would have committed shirk. It is not correct to believe that Allah would help us to do shirk so these jinn distractions, by default, are not from Allah.
Even if the raqi didn’t ask for any help from the jinn (ie no shirk involved) but the possessing jinn still offered information about the sihr, this would still be considered a jinn distraction and not from Allah (ie not a ruqya reaction) and it should be ignored because it is obviously and definitely not from Allah but it is information that is coming directly from the speaking possessing jinn, themselves ie it is not Allah who is speaking but it is the possessing jinn!
These jinn distractions are to be ignored just like we ignore yawning in patients during ruqya diagnosis because yawning is from the shaytan as explained in point 81 in my article “101 Important Ruqya Principles”.
From my experience the only situation where the jinn can do distractions during ruqya is when the patient has fallen into sins as explained in my article “How sins affect possessed Muslims”. If the sins of the patient become too many, then the ruqya diagnosis can be unclear and confusing because of the ability of the jinn to interfere. However, once the patient stops sinning and makes tauba and then they study ruqya diagnosis from a competent raqi, then they should get clear and unambiguous diagnosis results and no interference from the possessing jinn.
Anyway, the main point here is that the possessing jinn cannot stop the beneficial effects from the sincere Sunnah ruqya such as curing or burning the jinn with the Quran, when sins have been stopped.
In short, obviously, we all believe that a cure from ruqya is from Allah. We must also believe that ruqya reactions are from Allah and we take this from the understanding of the scholars and specialists in this field of ruqya today and from the agreed upon third statement of the scholars regarding the permissible ruqya.

RUQYA DIAGNOSIS IS NOT LIKE THE WORK OF FORTUNE TELLERS OR THE PEOPLE WHO USE THE JINN’S HELP

There is NO evidence from the Shariah that forbids us from trying to diagnose if someone has sihr or not because this issue of ruqya diagnosis is NOT like the work of fortune tellers or people who use jinn since we are NOT using the help of any jinn and we are NOT trying to work out what is part of the absolute unseen (al-ghayb al-mutlaq) such as the future, which is ONLY known by Allah, and we are NOT claiming to know it. We must realise that Allah allows some of the unseen knowledge, THAT ISN’T PART OF THE ABSOLUTE UNSEEN, to be known by some people via certain means such as when a doctor can tell the gender of a baby during pregnancy. Similarly, when scientists can work out if there will be a solar eclipse or what the weather will be like tomorrow or when police and forensic scientists investigate crimes that were committed in the past and then accuse someone of murder because of the evidence they have gathered. NO SCHOLARS CONDEMN THESE DOCTORS, SCIENTISTS OR POLICE FOR LOOKING INTO THE UNSEEN. On the contrary, they will be praised and commended for their actions. This is because these issues are based on physical evidence and experience and on the study of the natural laws of Allah. Likewise, those who have extensive experience of the natural laws of Allah regarding the spiritual ailments and that is that they react to ruqya, which is a physical and apparent evidence, are those people who are able to diagnose patients using ruqya diagnosis. We just don’t guess if someone has sihr but we use our skills, experience and ruqya to come to a conclusion. Those people who don’t have extensive experience in this field and don’t know much about the natural law of Allah regarding spiritual ailments, are those who are unable to understand or do ruqya diagnosis. Just because they do not know, it doesn’t mean that others are ignorant. Having said this, we must point out that ruqya diagnosis is a practical science and so some people may get the diagnosis wrong because of their inexperience. This wrong diagnosis could be due to several issues such as not establishing a proper reference point or interference issues or definition issues or incorrect intentions. The main point here is that a wrong diagnosis is possible, just like how it is possible to make errors in other fields of science. Nonetheless, this doesn’t negate or put doubts into the correct ruqya diagnosis that is conducted by a competent and experienced raqi or that correct self ruqya diagnosis that was done by a patient who had spent some time studying ruqya diagnosis before they actually did it. This is because ruqya diagnosis is an exact science that follows the natural laws of Allah and if it is done correctly and properly then a person can be 100% certain of their ruqya diagnosis results, just like they can sometimes be 100% certain with medical diagnosis or with the results in other sciences. This certainty in ruqya diagnosis is all because of the help of Allah so if we know that a person has the unseen disease of sihr because of ruqya diagnosis then that is from Allah because it was Allah who gave us this knowledge of this unseen disease by creating reactions in the person’s body and we couldn’t do it without Allah.

With regards to using ruqya to diagnose the present condition of a patient or their past situation that is related to their present condition, then it is permissible to do these two types of ruqya diagnosis, as mentioned in some of my articles, because the Shariah does NOT forbid us from investigating, by any halal means, the past or present condition of the patient since this has NOTHING to do with the future or the absolute unseen knowledge (al-ghayb al-mutlaq) of Allah. In fact, this is similar to what medical doctors do when they investigate the past or present condition of their patients. No scholars condemn or accuse doctors of investigating the unseen, when the doctors try to work out, via various halal means, the past or medical history of patients or the present situation of patients. This is all because, in general, the Shariah does NOT differentiate between the way we deal with physical or spiritual diseases. Hence, if we are permitted to treat or do something with one of them, then we are also permitted to do the same with the other, even if the means or ways are different. So therefore, if we can investigate a cancer patient’s present/past condition or any causes of his present/past cancer or any present/past medical problems that are or were caused by cancer, then we can do the same investigations and diagnoses with a sihr patient.

NB: Having said all of that, I must state that the information gained via ruqya diagnosis is not something that can be used in an Islamic court. This is similar to the information gained from dreams! Both can be 100%, clear cut for the individual but because it is very personal and cannot be verified by others, it therefore cannot be presented as evidence in an Islamic court. This means that if you work out via advanced specific ruqya diagnosis, who the sahir is or who the hasid is, then this information must be kept secret, just like you would do with your dreams!

For more information on Advanced Ruqya Diagnosis, then please go to the sub section below, titled “The Benefits of Ruqya Diagnosis for the Spiritual Ailments“, and click the link for the YouTube video. The said link is in point “(4) A. Ruqya Diagnosis Improves General Treatment


PROVING RUQYA DIAGNOSIS IS NOT A BIDAH BY USING EXAMPLES OF INTERACTIONS BETWEEN A RAQI & HIS PATIENTS

To help you understand that this concept of ruqya diagnosis isn’t a bidah, let us imagine a person, who is 100% convinced that he has ayn, decides to visit a raqi for “ruqya treatment” for ayn. The raqi himself isn’t convinced the person has ayn and he actually believes the person has sihr based on their discussions and the person’s history. However, the raqi performs ‘ruqya treatment’ for ONLY ayn on this person even though he doesn’t really believe the person has ayn. He reads ruqya treatment on the patient using the Arabic dua “Asalullaah An yashfiyaka min ayn’ (I ask Allah to CURE you from evil eye). To the raqi’s surprise, while doing the “ruqya treatment” for ONLY ayn, the raqi actually notices that the person is really reacting to the ayn “ruqya treatment” and therefore the raqi himself is now convinced that the person definitely has ayn because of the physical reactions that he has observed. Another person visits the same raqi and this second person is also 100% convinced that he has ayn but the raqi himself isn’t convinced again but the raqi still does exactly the same “ruqya treatment”, for ayn ONLY, using the same Arabic dua on the second person as he did on the first person. So in both cases the raqi actually starts reading the ruqya “treatment” while disbelieving or having a doubt in his heart that the patients are really afflicted. For the second “ruqya treatment” session for ONLY ayn, there were absolutely NO physical reactions felt by the second person so therefore, after the raqi finished the ruqya, he tells the second person that, in his opinion, the second person doesn’t have any ayn BECAUSE HE DIDN’T REACT TO THE “RUQYA TREATMENT” for ONLY ayn. Now, the raqi and both patients may say that they just did “ruqya treatment” or “ruqya” BUT IN REALITY THESE ARE A RUQYA DIAGNOSIS SESSIONS and can never really be called ruqya treatment because NO real treatment was done. There may have been some REAL ruqya treatment at the end or the last few minutes of the first ruqya session, once the raqi was 100% convinced about the presence of ayn in the first person. However, the majority of the time, in both cases, was taken up by ruqya diagnosis and NOT ruqya treatment, whether that is acknowledged or not by the raqi himself and the two people. WE CAN SAY THIS BECAUSE OF THE DOUBT IN RAQI’S HEART (he didn’t really believe they had ayn) AT THE BEGINNING OF BOTH RUQYA SESSIONS AND HE WAS WAITING TO SEE IF THERE WAS A REACTION BEFORE ANY REAL TREATMENT WAS ADMINISTERED. If you accept what the raqi did in both sessions was Islamically valid then you have basically accepted ruqya diagnosis. We need to be honest with ourselves and base things on the reality of things and actions. Just because the name “ruqya diagnosis” doesn’t appear in the sunnah, it doesn’t mean that the reality of the action itself is a bidah because what we call ruqya diagnosis is basically the two ruqya scenarios we just described. If you accept them as being valid then in reality you also accept ruqya diagnosis because it is exactly the same action. We need to step away from terms and names and just look at the reality of certain actions before we can actually say they are haram or bidah.

Now, lets look at another example. Imagine a person thinks that he has sihr because of the issues he is having in his life but he is not 100% sure that he has sihr but he, nevertheless, still starts reading ruqya “treatment” with the Arabic dua: ‘Asalullaah An yashfiyanee min sihr’ (meaning: I ask Allah that he cure me from sihr), to see if he himself reacts to this dua. Because he wants to see if he reacts, we can  therefore say that his intention in his heart is not in line with the dua and his actual intention is: ‘O Allah Show me if I have sihr’……even though the Arabic wording of his dua is ‘I ask Allah that he cure me from sihr’ that is not the reality of whats is actually going on. REMEMBER THIS RULE: ACTIONS ARE BASED ON INTENTIONS. So even though, outwardly, it seems that he is doing treatment ruqya for the sihr with the literal wording of the dua, in reality, he is doing diagnosis ruqya for the sihr because the real intention in his heart of wanting to see if he reacts, overides his actual verbal action of reading ruqya ie the words of the dua that come out of his mouth. SO THE MERE DOUBT IN THE HEART AND ALSO HIS INTENTION TO SEE IF HE REACTS TO THE RUQYA, HAS CHANGED THE ACTION OF TREATMENT RUQYA TO THE ACTION OF DIAGNOSIS RUQYA. How can this be pure treatment of sihr (ie asking Allah for cure without any doubt that you have sihr) when he himself is not sure that he has sihr and so that doubt in the heart and his desire to see if he reacts, renders the ruqya treatment into a diagnosis ruqya rather than a pure 100% treatment ruqya. Therefore, his real intention and BY DEFAULT, HIS REAL ACTION OF RUQYA, BECAUSE HE WANTS TO SEE HOW HE REACTS is ‘O Allah show me if I have sihr’ while using the Arabic dua:  Asalullaah An yashfiyanee min sihr (I ask Allah that he cure me from sihr’). If he gets a reaction to this ruqya then we conclude that he has sihr.

What we have mentioned above is similar to when a medical doctor is presented with a undiagnosed patient who is complaining about chest problems. After examining the patient, the doctor is not 100% sure that it is a bacterial infection of the lungs but nonetheless he takes a guess and prescribes the patient antibiotics and keeps him in hospital overnight. In the morning, to the doctor’s surprise, the patient is feeling much better and it seems that he has responded very well to the antibiotics. The doctor is now 100% convinced that it was some kind of bacterial infection because of the patient’s response to the antibiotics.

Likewise, if a raqi follows the above doctor’s method and takes a guess and then treats a patient for ayn, using Surah Fatiha, and then the patient physically reacts and responds very well to the ayn ruqya treatment then we can say that the patient is suffering from ayn, and therefore, in reality, this “treatment” that the raqi has performed can be seen as a type of diagnosis.

If we are not going to shout “bidah” or condemn or criticise the medical doctor for guessing and then treating and then only becoming convinced of his patient’s diagnosis, then we can’t really say anything against the raqi who just did something similar to the doctor.

The reason we can’t condemn the doctor or raqi for guessing is because the Shariah does NOT differentiate between physical or spiritual ailments in terms of treatment and it does not stop us from “having a guess” or “trying out treatments”, even if we are not 100% convinced that a physical or spiritual disease is present. It also doesn’t expect us to get the diagnosis 100% right before any treatment can be administered. We are just supposed to try our best and fear Allah as much as we can. That is all the Shariah wants from us in terms of the diagnosis of physical and spiritual diseases. Hence, nothing haram or any bidah has been committed by the above doctor or the raqi.

This understanding of guessing the spiritual disease and then applying an appropriate treament and then finally basing the diagnosis on the patient’s response to the treatment, is taken from the well known hadith (Al Mishkat: 4562. Graded Sahih by Al Albani), where the Nabi (salulahu alayhi wasalam) teaches the Sahaba (radiullahu anhum) and us about how to treat ayn (evil eye) using the ayn perpetrator’s ghusl water. From this very hadith, we learn that it is NOT a problem to “guess” who the ayn perpetrator is and once you do this, you are also, by default, guessing the type of disease that the patient is suffering from, in this case ayn. Once you have made a good guess, you can administer the treatment for ayn by getting the patient to wash with the ayn perpetrator’s ghusl water. If the patient responds well to the treatment then this becomes a type of diagnosis as well, showing us who the ayn perpetrator is and that the patient has ayn. If the patient is not immediately cured with the first ghusl then we can request the SAME ayn perpetrator to prepare more ghusl water for the patient, basing this request on what our treatment/diagnosis result showed us.

AFTER READING THE ABOVE, HOW CAN ANYONE CLAIM THAT RUQYA DIAGNOSIS IS A BIDAH! In reality, it is basically a type of ruqya that was based on a good guess but with a doubt in the heart as to whether or not the patient truly has a spiritual illness ie we are waiting to see if the patient reacts to the ruqya. Whereas true ruqya treatment is NOT based on a good guess and there is NO doubt in the heart of the patient or raqi that there is definitely a spiritual or physical illness that is present and which needs to be treated with ruqya.


THE RAQI WHO CLAIMS THAT HE JUST DOES RUQYA TREATMENT IS IN FACT DOING A TYPE OF RUQYA DIAGNOSIS BUT HE DOESN’T ADMIT IT 

Conducting ruqya diagnosis doesn’t go against any of the Islamic principles of ruqya in Islam and is not a bidah. If you don’t want to do it then that is fine but please don’t accuse those who do it of performing a bidah since your idea of going ‘straight to ruqya treatment’ is in reality a form of diagnosis but you have not used the term ‘diagnosis’. When you basically practise ‘straight to ruqya treatment’ on a NEW PATIENT, you are not 100% convinced that you are actually treating anything in particular in the new patient because you are unsure yourself, in your heart, if this new patient has an affliction so you look for signs of a spiritual ailment and then you inform the new patient of what you have noticed after the ruqya ‘treatment’ session. This in short is a form of diagnosis whether you say it or not because that is what diagnosis is all about in reality! In Islam, we look at the reality of things not just names.

A new patient may ask that they feel they might have sihr so a straight-to-treatment raqi may even say to this patient ‘lets treat you with ruqya and then see what happens to you’. This proposal is basically a form of diagnosis even if it is called treatment 100 times!

So those who claim to just do ruqya treatment then we say to them that your ‘treatment’ on new patients is in reality, a combination of diagnosis and treatment and it is not just treatment that you are offering new patients because you are carefully observing the reactions of your new patients during your ‘straight to ruqya treatment’ since you are not sure if they really have a spiritual ailment, so how can that be purely treatment then! If you are really offering treatment ONLY then why do you need to carefully observe the patient and ask them how they feel?

The only way to really know if a patient has been cured by Allah is to read on them and see if they still react to ruqya or not and this is what all straight-to-ruqya-treatment raqis have to do IN THE END when one of their patients visits them or ask them the question ‘Am I cured’? If you ponder on and carefully reflect on the reality of this ruqya that the raqi will perform to see if the patient is cured or not, you will only come to the conclusion that this ruqya is diagnosis FULL STOP! All raqis and patients will have go through this process and there is no quicker way to find out if you are cured or not. Any raqi who has done several straight-to-ruqya-treatment sessions on a patient, over several months, may be told by the same patient that they feel like they have finally been cured by Allah. The raqi might not believe them and would then obviously suggest that they do some ruqya ‘treatment’ to see how they feel. Without a doubt and no matter how many times the raqi says “this is treatment ruqya only”, the reality is that this is DEFINITELY A DIAGNOSTIC RUQYA because the raqi is reading to see if the patient will react to the ruqya so it cannot really be treatment and the REAL intention is: ‘O Allah show us if this patient has has sihr’. As you can see, this is exactly what must have happened with the initial ruqya ‘treatment’ session the raqi had performed on this patient and on the rest his patients.

I personally used to do straight-to-ruqya treatment as I was not too bothered about what I was suffering from initially. In fact, I remember I even did straight-to-ruqya-treatment as my first self ruqya session on myself. I prepared the water for ‘treatment’ and I was anxiously waiting for results and when I carefully think of what I did during that so called ‘treatment’, I can clearly see now that it was NOT ruqya treatment at all but a ruqya diagnosis since I was anticipating the results and reactions ie I was waiting to see how the ruqya water would affect me. So those who call for straight-to-ruqya-treatment have to stop denying the reality of what they are actually doing and be honest with themselves and just admit that their first straight-to-ruqya-treatment session on new patients is in reality a form of diagnosis whether they say it or not!

The funny thing in all these discussions on whether or not I am doing a bidah, is that those accusers actually do the same thing as me but they don’t call it a bidah. They read their initial ruqya treatment on a patient with a doubt in their hearts, which I do as well. However, when they see the patient’s body react to their initial ruqya treatment, they refuse to draw any conclusions from the situation or observation, whereas I would make conclusions and even offer alternative treatments depending upon what I observed or what the patient said they felt during my first or initial ruqya treatment. These accusers need to understand that the drawing of conclusions from your first or initial ruqya treatment is not and can NEVER EVER be a bidah. So if I read my first ruqya treatment for sihr on a patient and they react then I CAN CONCLUDE THAT THEY HAVE SIHR and no one can say that I did a bidah by saying the patient has sihr. That is because the mental or psychological process of drawing up a conclusion from an observation of a patient is NOT a fixed act of worship, in of itself. Indeed, it is something all good professional doctors, scholars and scientists regularly do!


DEFINING RUQYA DIAGNOSIS & RUQYA TREATMENT 

After the above discussion and explanations, we may now define ruqya diagnosis and ruqya treatment according to what is in heart of the raqi at the time of actually conducting or administering the ruqya:

RUQYA DIAGNOSIS: Is a type of RUQYA that is initially done (or subsequently done after a course of treatment) and is based on a good guess but with a doubt in the heart as to whether or not a spiritual ailment is truly present in the patient so consequently the raqi asks Allah to SHOW physical signs that the patient has a spiritual illness.

RUQYA TREATMENT: Is a type of RUQYA that is NOT based on a good guess and there is NO doubt in the heart that the patient definitely has a physical or spiritual ailment so consequently the raqi asks Allah to CURE the patient’s illness.

I hope I have removed the doubt from those who reject ruqya diagnosis and I pray for our and their guidance.


A SUMMARY OF WHY RUQYA DIAGNOSIS IS PERMISSIBLE IN ISLAM 

We can summarise the arguments for ruqya diagnosis in 11 points:
1. Ruqya diagnosis is in accordance to the meaning and definition of what ruqya actually is in Islam, ie Islamic ruqya is not restricted to just treatment, it can include diagnosis.
2. If it is permissible in normal dua to ask Allah to show us and to diagnose us, as the Nabi salalahu alayhi wasalam did (Bukhari 3268 & Muslim 2189), then it is also permissible to ask Allah to diagnose us during ruqya and that is because of the shared similarities between ruqya and this particular normal dua of the Nabi salalahu alayhi wasalam. This normal dua of the Nabi salalahu alayhi wasalam is dealing with an unknown spiritual disease AND also during ruqya diagnosis, we are also dealing with an unknown spiritual disease and in BOTH cases Allah is being asked to diagnose. There is no text restricting this diagnosis of the Nabi salalahu alayhi wasalam to just normal dua ie what is permissible for normal dua in this particular case is also permissible for ruqya. This is all because ruqya is ONLY for dealing with diseases! If this normal dua of the Nabi salalahu alayhi wasalam, in this hadith, was dealing with something else, and not a disease, then we would NOT be able to apply it to ruqya diagnosis.
3. Ruqya diagnosis is in accordance with the three conditions the scholars agreed upon about the permissible ruqya. These three agreed upon conditions, don’t restrict ruqya to just treatment.
4. Ruqya diagnosis is in accordance to the hadith on ruqya: “Whoever is able to benefit his brother then let him benefit him” (Al-Albani: Saheeh Jam’i 6019). This is because ruqya diagnosis is beneficial to the patient.
5. Ruqya diagnosis is in accordance to the hadith of ruqya: “There is nothing wrong with ruqya as long as there is no shirk involved” (Muslim: 2200). This is because ruqya diagnosis does not involve any shirk.
6. The duas and even intentions for ruqya have not been restricted to exclude ruqya diagnosis, ie just because the intention for ruqya diagnosis is “new”, it does not mean that it is not allowed or a bidah.
7. There is absolutely NO evidence to say that ruqya is only for treatment.
8. Ruqya diagnosis is NOT like the work of fortune tellers and the people who work with jinn. This is because ruqya diagnosis does not use the help of jinn.
9. Ruqya diagnosis is NOT trying to investigate the forbidden unseen, like the future, but it seeks to know the unseen that is permissible to investigate. This is similar to when a doctor investigates or tries to discover the gender of an unborn baby. No scholars condemn these doctors for investigating this unseen issue.
10. There is NO evidence to say that the action of ruqya diagnosis is actually haram to do.
11. There is NO evidence to say that it is impossible for anyone to actually know if they have jinn possession or the evil eye or any other spiritual disease.
In conclusion, we can say that ruqya diagnosis is NOT a bidah and that it completely acceptable in our deen. Having said that, if someone does not want to do it, then that is fine, since we are not forcing anyone to do it.
I advise my dear beloved brothers and sisters who I LOVE FOR THE SAKE OF ALLAH, to stop accusing me of bidah and being ignorant of ruqya. Just because your Islamic teacher or sheikh does not do ruqya diagnosis, it does not mean that ruqya diagnosis is haram. Just because your sheikh does not know how to diagnose jinn possession or the evil eye, it does not mean that others can’t do it.
I ask my dear beloved brothers and sisters to carefully ponder on the above mentioned 11 points and ask Allah to guide you and then you will hopefully see that there is absolutely nothing wrong with ruqya diagnosis. Allah is our guide and so if there is something dodgy or doubtful about ruqya diagnosis then you should be able to refute the 11 points that I have mentioned. If you can’t refute them, then know that ruqya diagnosis is not haram to do. What we mean here, is that if ruqya diagnosis is so blatantly haram to do, then it would be easily refuted, since Allah does not allow his deen to be corrupted, nor does he allow his sincere servants to be misguided.

RUQYA DIAGNOSIS IS ONLY FOR SPIRITUAL AILMENTS AND NOT FOR PHYSICAL AILMENTS

Ruqya diagnosis is ONLY for spiritual ailments and it is NOT for diagnosing physical ailments. Having said that, we can TREAT physical illnesses with ruqya. If you want to diagnose a physical ailment like cancer or diabetes then you should ask a doctor. This is based on the experience of practising ruqya. We found that physical ailments do not give a patient, any reactions during ruqya treatment like the spiritual ailments do, so therefore we can’t use ruqya to diagnose physical diseases. The ruqya treatment is definitely doing something positive to the physical disease but the patient can’t really notice it and this is not a real problem as Allah has given us another way to diagnose physical ailments. Allah has created our bodies so that we can notice when we have a physical illness; either we can see it or feel it because it is not something that is hidden and therefore we do not really need ruqya diagnosis to help us diagnose physical ailments since the disease is apparent. All we need to do is treat it so once a doctor has diagnosed you or you yourself feel ill then you can start ruqya treatment of your physical illness.


THE PROBLEM OF USING RUQYA TREATMENT AS A DIAGNOSTIC TOOL

When I am trying to convince those who do not agree with ruqya diagnosis, I sometimes tell them to use ruqya treatment as a form of diagnosis. This argument they readily accept because for them, ruqya treatment is the only form of ruqya. Having said that, there is a problem with this method of ruqya treatment as diagnosis, which I want to explain here and which people have experienced.

Even though I personally do not like using ruqya treatment as a form of diagnosis, it does help deal with certain Muslims who believe that ruqya diagnosis is a bidah. The reason I do not like to do it, is because of the fact that ruqya treatment does not produce as much physical reactions as ruqya diagnosis does. The cause of this problem, is due to the intention. In ruqya treatment you are asking Allah for the cure, whereas in ruqya diagnosis, you asking Allah to show you physical signs that the patient is suffering from a spiritual disease. So since the intention in ruqya treatment is not asking Allah to show clear signs of a spiritual disease, we find that the reactions during ruqya treatment are not really convincing for some patients and so they believe that they don’t really have a spiritual disease, when the opposite could be true. The problem is worse for those patients who only have slight ayn (evil eye) or just waswas conditioning with no jinn possession at all. In such cases, their reactions will be very difficult to notice even with ruqya diagnosis so what about if we only use ruqya treatment to diagnose them! Obviously, it will be much worse than that.
In general, you will find some patients being convinced via ruqya treatment as a diagnostic tool but that is only usually after reading regular ruqya treatment for several days, which eventually caused significant reactions. Many people will not have the patients to read regularly for several days to diagnose themselves so for some  patients this form of diagnosis is not really feasible.
Because of these above issues, it is better to avoid using ruqya treatment as a diagnostic tool.
NB: What we have mentioned here regarding ruqya treatment as a diagnostic tool, does NOT apply to the initial ruqya “treatment” conducted by certain raqis since they are not, in reality, doing any “treatment” at all, in the beginning of their so-called “ruqya treatment” and they are really waiting to see reactions from the patient as we have explained earlier in this article with the example of the raqi reading ruqya “treatment” on the two ayn patients.

NEVER DIAGNOSE A SPIRITUAL DISEASE LIKE THE WAY YOU DIAGNOSE A PHYSICAL DISEASE: DON’T JUST USE BACKGROUND HISTORY AND PATIENT INFORMATION TO DIAGNOSE SPIRITUAL DISEASES 

Sadly, It seems that some straight-to-ruqya-treatment raqis put a lot of trust in the background history of the patient. No, doubt this is very important but it should never be used to make the final judgement or diagnosis of a patient……THIS SHOULD BE LEFT TO RUQYA DIAGNOSIS. This is because the spiritual ailments on their own, outside of ruqya (ie when ruqya is not administered on them) can exhibit similar symptoms to each other and this can cause confusion and a wrong diagnosis, when you just use the history of the patient and what the patient is complaining about. For example, a woman might complain that her hair is falling out after she went to a wedding, where women were complementing her on how beautiful her hair was. Without using ruqya diagnosis and just basing the diagnosis on what the woman said and other background information, a raqi who does not believe in ruqya diagnosis would come to the conclusion that it must hasad that the woman is suffering from. However, when ruqya diagnosis is administered, we find out that the woman actually has sihr for hair loss and she does not have hasad at all. This clearly illustrates the problem those raqis who don’t do ruqya diagnosis face and fall into. Some might complain and say that I have oversimplified their diagnosis procedure in this example but the reality is that, no matter how much information they gather from the patient, their diagnosis is NEVER going to be accurate as ruqya diagnosis.

It seems, and Allah knows best, the reason why these straight-to-ruqya-treatment raqis are against any form of ruqya diagnosis, ESPECIALLY SPECIFIC RUQYA DIAGNOSIS is because they are treating the spiritual ailments (sihr, jinn, ayn, etc) exactly like physical ailments (cancer or diabetes) AND THIS IS A BIG MISTAKE. Doctors use a lot of background information and history to help diagnose physical ailments as there is no quick alternative like ruqya diagnosis because these physical illnesses don’t give us any reactions during ruqya so we can’t do ruqya diagnosis for cancer and other physical illnesses (but we can treat cancer with ruqya after a medical doctor has diagnosed and confirmed cancer in a patient). This is not the case of spiritual ailments as we can do ruqya diagnosis for ALL spiritual ailments because they clearly react during ruqya diagnosis and treatment so there is no need to be heavily dependent on the background history of the patient. Indeed, sometimes the background history may lead you to the conclusion that the patient has sihr but when you do the ruqya diagnosis, you realise the patient only had hasad.

So we advise our dear brothers who practice straight-to-ruqya-treatment that they should NOT see the diagnosis of a spiritual ailment in the same way they see the diagnosis of a physical ailment. The diagnosis of spiritual ailments and physical ailments is completely different and they should never be treated in the same manner. That is because a particular physical disease usually has fixed or semi fixed physical symptoms which differentiate it from other physical diseases. On the other hand, outside of ruqya, the physical symptoms related to a particular spiritual disease are not as fixed as the symptoms for physical diseases and therefore we cannot diagnose spiritual ailments like the way we diagnose physical ailments. For example, if a man complains about being lethargic and loss of libido then this could be caused by a physical disease or it could be caused by a lack of vitamins and minerals or it could be caused by a spiritual disease. The only way to find out if it is a spiritual disease is by doing ruqya diagnosis as those two symptoms he is suffering from (lethargy and loss of libido) could be caused by a physical disease or a lack of nutrients. If the ruqya diagnosis turns out to be negative then the man can approach a doctor for advice. (Hence, it is always better to do ruqya diagnosis before actually going to the doctor. Even if your medical problem is caused by a spiritual disease, you should still visit the doctor for help as they maybe able to give you something that may reduce your medical problem). In another example, if a man complains about a sudden hatred of his wife, headaches, lethargy, loss of appetite and nightmares, and that all of his in-laws practice sihr. Then these symptoms could be the result of sihr of divorce or ayn with jinn possession that is causing divorce or even just jinn possession that is causing divorce. It could also be caused by a possessing jinnee that loves the man and wants to cause divorce. There are also other possibilities of what the man could be suffering from. As you can see it is impossible to know exactly what the man is suffering from, by just looking at his symptoms. The fact that his in-laws practice sihr does not necessarily mean that they did sihr on him. In such a situation, a raqi who does not believe in ruqya diagnosis would be confused and may change his opinion several times regarding the diagnosis of this man or the raqi may feel that since the in-laws are all sahirs then it must be the sihr of divorce. This is why you cannot treat the diagnosis of spiritual ailments like the diagnosis of physical ailments. The only way to resolve this confusion would be to do ruqya diagnosis.

When I consider my own case and how I did not know what I was suffering from until I did ruqya diagnosis, I can say that after what I went through that it is essential that we take ruqya diagnosis seriously and that we get Muslims to learn how to do it properly. I believe this because of how I was deceived by the possessing jinnee and the fact that I had no clear signs that I had any spiritual disease. I would have just carried on living the way I was because I had nothing that indicated that I had a spiritual disease and this is what “No ruqya diagnosis” causes.
I remember organising ruqya sessions for other people and even sitting in ruqya sessions of others and NOT feeling anything strange or peculiar. I really did not have any real issues or major problems that even a professional raqi would notice. I just believed that the hatred and anger I had towards my wife was just normal and that married couples had to just deal and live with that because that is how it was explained to me, ie it is usual to have marriage problems because the shaytan wants to split Muslim families, especially pious couples, ie couples who follow Islam and don’t committ major sins. So I was expected to ignore any negative feelings and to not think about divorce.

I know of another case where the sihr patient did not exhibit any of the typical physical signs of sihr or jinn possession. This patient did not even have waswas or nightmares. The patient only had a serious bowel illness but this was thought to be caused by something other than spiritual diseases. Now, this patient would not have known if they had sihr if they did not do the ruqya diagnosis. Ruqya diagnosis was the key in identifying that the patient had sihr and that the bowel illness was actually being caused by sihr. How are those raqis (who don’t do ruqya diagnosis) going deal with such patients? Their experience of other cases won’t help them here and they would find it very difficult to give the patient any advice. Usually, in such cases, the raqi who does not do ruqya diagnosis would suggest that the patient visit a medical doctor as the raqi could not see or identify any sihr or jinn possession symptoms and how sad that is!

When I look at this last case and my own case, I just wonder how many other people are in the same predicament. How many people are walking around with jinn inside them but they are totally oblivious to that reality.
I strongly recommend every Muslim to diagnose themselves for spiritual diseases especially ayn and jinn possession. I do not care what people think of me by giving this piece of advice as it is NOT haram or bidah to give people advice. In fact, it is from our religion to give sincere advice. If you would accept a doctor’s advice about doing a particular diagnosis for a wide spread disease then you should do ruqya diagnosis as well because there is NO difference between the two pieces of advice ie the doctor’s advice should be treated in the same manner as my advice.
My advice would NOT have been applicable in the time of the Salaf but now in our time there is MORE evil so consequently we have more jinn possession than ever before. If a raqi wants to dispute this then we would say that I am entitled to my own opinion in this case and I don’t have to listen to his opinion, just like he does not have to listen to me. However, if he is a raqi or an Islamic studies teacher and he does not know how to actually diagnose the spiritual diseases then in that case he should remain silent and not speak about something he does not have experience in. How can we accept the opinion that there is not much jinn possession in people from a person who does not even know how to diagnose jinn possession! We have far too many people talking about issues that they are not qualified to talk about and here we don’t mean qualifications in terms of certificates but we mean qualified in knowing how to diagnose jinn possession and then having experience in dealing with patients who are possessed.
Sadly, these people, who believe that there is not much jinn possession out there, are probably basing there opinion on the fact that the majority of patients do not having speaking jinn. For them, if you have speaking jinn then you are definitely possessed but if you don’t have speaking jinn then you are not possessed. This is an incorrect opinion as I have explained in my ruqya diagnosis lectures and notes. A person can be possessed by jinn but their jinn do not speak because of the iman of the patient ie not falling into major sins or it could be due to the fact that the patient is a child below puberty and hence sinless so no jinn will speak through them.

THE BENEFITS OF RUQYA DIAGNOSIS FOR THE SPIRITUAL AILMENTS

Having said the above, there are still people who do not think that ruqya diagnosis is necessary. They may not believe that it is a bidah but they still can’t see how important it is. So in this section, I am going to explain why it is important from several perspectives.

I usually get patients telling me that it is not important to know if they have sihr or ayn because the treatment is the same in the end. This statement of theirs is true to a degree but these patients fail to understand that their statement is just applicable to ruqya treatment and not to other forms of treatment such as destroying the taweez, when you find it. (You are not really going to search for the taweez unless you know, via ruqya diagnosis, that you have sihr). From my experience, those patients who usually tell me that it is not important to do ruqya diagnosis, are those who are suffering from sihr with jinn possession ie the jinn came via sihr. These jinn through sihr, do not like their victims to know that they are inside them so they discourage them, via waswas, to not do ruqya diagnosis. Remember, jinn through sihr would like victims to believe that everything is fine and that any waswas that they give to victims to divorce a spouse, etc, is only natural and not from jinn. When ruqya diagnosis reveals that victims have the sihr of divorce then obviously such victims will be very cautious and careful about any negative feelings they feel towards their spouse.

Ruqya diagnosis is important because of the following reasons:

(1) RUQYA DIAGNOSIS STOPS SHIRK!

By doing ruqya diagnosis you close the door to being amazed at jinn and speaking to them to find out what the patient is suffering from and therefore you avoid falling into shirk with jinn. How many unfortunate people have ended up speaking to jinn and asking them about things and then believing them and then finally asking for assistance from jinn, which is major shirk!

Those raqis, who insist on not doing or teaching ruqya diagnosis, need to understand that many patients who are very desperate for answers, will turn to those who use jinn, such as jinn catchers or peers or fortune tellers or bogus raqis, to get their questions answered. Therefore, I strongly recommend that they reconsider their opposition to ruqya diagnosis because conducting ruqya diagnosis will stop people falling into shirk.

(2) RUQYA DIAGNOSIS CLARIFIES IF A MUSLIM IS SUFFERING FROM AYN (EVIL EYE)

Most Muslims are aware of the seriousness of the evil eye and that it will cause a lot of death in the ummah because of the hadith of the Nabi salulahu alayhi wasalam:

“Most of those who die among my ummah die because of the will and decree of allah, and then because of the evil eye.” (Hasan: Al-Albani, Silsila 384/2. Hasan: Al-Albani, Sahih Jam’i 1206)

Therefore, it is important to identify those of us who are suffering from the evil eye so that we can treat them and the quickest way to identify them would be to do ruqya diagnosis, hence the importance of ruqya diagnosis in our lives.

(3) RUQYA DIAGNOSIS CLARIFIES WHAT THE PERSON IS SUFFERING FROM

Ruqya Diagnosis allows the patient to get answers to the medical or psychological problems they are facing in their life. They may have visited their doctor several times and the doctor cannot find anything wrong with them but once they do ruqya diagnosis they realise that their problem was jinn related or sihr.

Some patients that truly have a spiritual ailment that is causing physical problems  might actually believe that they are really suffering from an unknown physical ailment and they might be taking unnecessary medicines (that have strong side effects) to relieve pain or discomfort or to reduce a physical problem. Some of these medicines do give some relief but they don’t get to the bottom of the problem, while others are totally useless and should not be taken by patients. Ruqya diagnosis stops such oral administration of medicines and clarifies to patients that their pain or discomfort or physical problem is not stemming from a physical illness but a spiritual one. After ruqya diagnosis the patient would know that they have a spiritual disease and then they would do ruqya treatment to cure the illness instead of taking medicines.

It should be noted that if the ruqya patient does get some relief from taking some medicine, like antihistamine, then they can continue even if it is not a cure to their problem. (There is NO problem in combining ruqya treatment with modern medicine).

Ruqya diagnosis can stop patients having unnecessary surgical procedures. I had one patient who had an operation to remove a nerve from his arm and hand. The operation did not relieve his pain or problem but it was the only thing the doctors could do. We found out later that the issue was jinn related and therefore the brother had an unnecessary medical procedure which resulted in him losing a healthy nerve. From what I remember, he has now lost some ability in his arm.

Some muscle twitches or limbs shaking are jinn related so removing healthy nerves is not going to solve the problem. In fact, it may make it worse. Only ruqya diagnosis can clarify what we are really dealing with.

Sadly, there may be cases of real spiritual disease, where whole organs are removed or reduced in size via operations but after such procedures NO improvements in the patient can be detected or noticed ie the patient is still complaining about their original physical problem. In such situations, ruqya diagnosis would stop the removal of healthy organs.

Recently, a patient of mine did specific ruqya diagnosis and realised that the cancer that they are suffering from is being caused by ALL 4 SPIRITUAL AILMENTS, including waswas conditioning, which surprised me! They are now emphasising and focusing on treating the spiritual ailments and giving more time to them because they are the real cause for the cancer. If it weren’t for ruqya diagnosis then this information would not have been known and the patient would not take the treatment of spiritual ailments so seriously.

Ruqya diagnosis also helps out in our interactions with others. A muslim couple who are experiencing marriage problems and they cannot understand why they are not happy in their marriage may consider getting a divorce. However, once they do the ruqya diagnosis they realise they have the sihr of divorce.
(THE GENERAL RULE FOR ALL COUPLES THINKING ABOUT DIVORCE IS: DO SIHR DIAGNOSIS BEFORE SEEING A MARRIAGE COUNSELLOR. How strange it is that when a couple is deciding, whether or not, to get a divorce, hardly anyone suggests to them that they should do sihr diagnosis. Even worse than this are those who are involved in marriage counselling and they do not have a clue about sihr and its effects on a marriage. The Quran is clear on the fact that sihr is used to cause divorce so how come we are oblivious to this fact or don’t think that sihr could be causing divorce).

Diagnosis allows us to know whether or not the bad behaviour of a child or adult is due to jinn or not. Some children have anger management problems caused by jinn issues and therefore they can’t get along with other children or with their parents. In this case, it very important for the parents to diagnose their children before the possessing jinn get too comfortable and used to ‘living’ in their child. Such jinn, who have spent years with a person from childhood, can be very difficult to remove because they see the person and the person’s family as their own family.
It should be mentioned that it is very important to diagnose children for jinn possession before they hit puberty. Once puberty is reached then the jinn can influence them to have haram relationships and do other haram activity.

The reason we need to diagnose our children before puberty is because it is much more difficult to get rid of jinn possession in adults because their sins have an effect on the possessing jinn and make them stronger ie if a person is very sinful then it is much more difficult to remove the possessing jinn and the jinn may even completely manifest and start speaking through the patient and then cause havoc and chaos.

(4) RUQYA DIAGNOSIS IMPROVES GENERAL TREATMENT

One of the main benefits of diagnosis is that it HELPS treatment and you will be able to remove the spiritual ailment much quicker because we will be able to offer the best method of treatment available. It also allows us to use more ruqya treatment intentions because we know what spiritual ailments you are exactly suffering from. WE HAVE FOUND FROM EXPERIENCE THAT THE MORE INTENTIONS YOU USE, THE STRONGER THE RUQYA TREATMENT BECOMES. This is because you are more focused and precise at what you are asking Allah to cure you from. Without diagnosis, you cannot add more treatment intentions and your focus and precision, in asking Allah for the cure, is not really there.

A. Once we diagnose a patient is suffering from sihr then we would try and search for the taweez. Finding the taweez is one of the quickest ways to get the cure. If it weren’t for this sihr ruqya diagnosis then we would not search for the taweez in first place. (We can use advanced specific ruqya diagnosis to find out where exactly the taweez is and then destroy it. If it weren’t for ruqya diagnosis then we would not be able to do this. For information on this, please watch this video: Advanced Ruqya Diagnosis Workshop [2])
B. If we diagnose a person with ayn then we would try and obtain the ayn perpetrator’s ghusl water. Getting this ghusl water is one of the quickest ways to get the cure. If it weren’t for this ayn ruqya diagnosis then we would not ask for the ghusl water in the first place. (We can use advanced specific ruqya diagnosis to find out who exactly is the ayn or hasad perpetrator and then get their ghusl water and then wash with it. If it weren’t for ruqya diagnosis then we would not be able to do this. For information on this, please watch this video: Advanced Ruqya Diagnosis Workshop [2]).
C. Once we diagnose the person with jinn possession then we would try to extract and kill the jinn with the JET Technique.
D. Once we diagnose the person with static sihr, ayn, jinn possession or waswaas conditioning then we would try to remove that with hijama.
E. Once we diagnose the person with sihr and ayn then we would tell him to treat the ayn at the same time as sihr because ayn can block sihr treatment.
F. Once we have diagnosed the patient with sihr then we would tell them to treat the sihr network as that can block sihr treatment.
G. Once we diagnose the person with hasad then we would advise that they treat the hasad network as that can block ayn treatment.

(5) RUQYA DIAGNOSIS ALLOWS US TO ADVISE THE PATIENT APPROPRIATELY

Once we know that patient has sihr of divorce with jinn possession then we will would tell them to ignore any thoughts of divorce and try to treat their spouse islamically and give them their rights as best as they can.
If we diagnose a patient with ayn because of their hair then we would advise them to be careful where they expose themselves and remind them to keep up with their protection adhkar.
Once we diagnose the person with jinn possession then we would advise them about sins because sins cause jinn manifestation.

(6) RUQYA DIAGNOSIS MAKES THE PATIENT MORE SINCERE IN MAKING DUA

One of the wonderful benefits of diagnosis is that you will make a much more sincere dua to Allah when you realise what you exactly have. For example, if you did a ruqya diagnosis for sihr which was positive then you will call out to Allah, sincerely asking him to cure you from sihr because you have witnessed the effects of the ruqya diagnosis and you definitely now know that someone has specifically targeted you with sihr. If you did not do sihr diagnosis but did ‘straight-to-ruqya-treatment’, you will obviously get some reactions but because you did not use the intention of diagnosing sihr, you can’t be sure of what you have and therefore you are not going to cry out to Allah to cure you from sihr like a person who definitely knows they have sihr.

(7) RUQYA DIAGNOSIS REMOVES ANY DOUBTS AND MAKES YOU SERIOUS ABOUT YOUR RUQYA TREATMENT

I have seen people who are DEFINITELY possessed by jinn but they are in doubt about it and therefore this doubt causes them to stop or reduce their ruqya treatment. However, once they do a proper ruqya diagnosis, they become convinced and restart their ruqya treatment. So if it weren’t for ruqya diagnosis this person would not ever do or continue their ruqya treatment.
I would recommend anyone who gets doubts about having jinn possession to do a proper mass diagnosis on a regularly basis until they convince themselves via the ruqya diagnosis that they are definitely possessed by jinn. This will make them steadfast in their ruqya treatment.

(8) RUQYA DIAGNOSIS ALLOWS US TO DISCOVER NEW SPIRITUAL AILMENTS

If it weren’t for ruqya diagnosis then I would not have been able to discover waswas conditioning. It was through ruqya diagnosis that this spiritual ailment, that I and others suffered from, was identified and recognised.

I thought I would never be able to clear the psychological problems I had. I didn’t believe there was a cure because there was no disease in the first place that had been diagnosed. I felt that what I was going through was normal and I had to think of coping strateges to get by in life. However, by the mercy of Allah, we were able to discover and diagnose waswaas conditioning and then treat it, walhamdulilah.

If we don’t understand the importance and significance of ruqya diagnosis then we may not be able to help Muslims who are suffering from unknown spiritual illnesses.

(9) RUQYA DIAGNOSIS HELPS WITH EXPERIMENTING & DEVELOPING NEW TREATMENTS FOR SPIRITUAL AILMENTS

In order to know if a NEW type of treatment benefits sufferers of a particular spiritual ailment, we need to first do ruqya diagnosis on patients to actually see if they really have this particular spiritual ailment or not. If they don’t then there is NO point in trying out this NEW treatment on them because it would be a total waste of time. For example, if we want to see if a new treatment called X helps treat sihr patients then we must first diagnose patients with sihr. If we don’t use ruqya diagnosis then how can we identify patients with sihr and how can we ever know if X treatment is beneficial or not. If we just use X treatment on a group people who we think may have sihr then this would be a waste of time since the results cannot be relied upon because the patients might not have had any sihr in the first place. To avoid such a scenario, it is better to do ruqya diagnosis to identify sihr patients and then treat these patients with the new X treatment and then do ruqya diagnosis to see if this new X treatment had reduced the sihr or not.

(10) RUQYA DIAGNOSIS PREVENTS US USING INEFFECTIVE AND USELESS TREATMENTS

Once we know via ruqya diagnosis that a particular patient does NOT have a specific spiritual illness then we will not use any treatments that are used to treat that specific spiritual illness. For example, we know that truffles and mushrooms treat Ayn, as I mention in the self treatment notes, but if we know via ruqya diagnosis that a patient does not have Ayn then we would not waste time and money on treating this patient with truffles or mushrooms because he or she does not have any Ayn in the first place!

(11) RUQYA DIAGNOSIS HELPS US TO APPRECIATE WHAT ALLAH IS DOING FOR US

Ruqya diagnosis makes you appreciate what Allah has done for you which will then cause you to love Allah even further than you already do! Take for instance the patient who finds out that he has sihr of divorce, sihr to cause financial issues and sihr of infertility but then the patient remains married, has a successful business and has children. This patient will be very thankful to Allah because even though he has a jinnee through sihr that was commanded to cause divorce, cause financial problems and to stop the patient from having children, Allah didn’t allow the sihr and its jinnee to be successful. Obviously, any patient like this example, who realises what Allah has done for him will love Allah more!

I remember my own case and how I am still very thankful to Allah. I had diagnosed myself with the sihr to kill my own wife ie the jinnee from sihr had been sent with a command to make me kill my wife but by the mercy of Allah I didn’t do that. Sometimes, when I just think about it and my whole sihr situation in general, it brings tears to my eyes and appreciation for Allah, especially when I remember how Allah saved me from the evils plans of the sahir.

Recently, we had a patient who did ruqya diagnosis and got positive results for different types of sihr that they had and then they reflected on their past life with these types of sihr and were emotionally overwhelmed and very thankful to Allah when they realised how Allah had saved them from the plans of the sahir……such an experience can only make a patient love Allah more! After reading this……HOW CAN ANYONE REFUSE TO DO RUQYA DIAGNOSIS!!!

(12) RUQYA DIAGNOSIS HELPS US TO KNOW IF THE PATIENT IS GETTING BETTER OR NOT

Ruqya diagnosis allows us to monitor the development of a spiritual disease and therefore it assists us in determining if a patient’s spiritual illness is getting better or not. Through it, we may discover that a patient’s physical reactions or symptoms during ruqya diagnosis have become less which generally means that the patient is getting better and therefore we can conclude that the patient’s current treatment plan is working successfully and there is no need to change or modify it and if they continue using it they should get cured inshallah. We may find via ruqya diagnosis that a patient has new sihr or new jinn and therefore we would have to analyse and try to identify what has caused these new issues and then rectify any problems that we discover. None of these actions of continuing or improving a treatment plan can be done properly without having the information that ruqya diagnosis provides to us.

(13) RUQYA DIAGNOSIS ALLOWS US TO DISCOVER NEW SIHR DEVELOPMENTS

The only real way of keeping up to date with the modern sahir’s work, is to use ruqya diagnosis. These people are always looking for ways to improve their delivery of sihr.

Recently, I discovered that a patient of mine got afflicted with sihr via a private social media message that they had received. The message acted as the sihr object ie not the taweez itself but the thing that gives the victim sihr, just like when some victims touch something or eat something with sihr. In fact, ALL of the sihr that the patient was suffering from, was from this message. The sihr renewed itself, a few times, when the patient opened the message on different occasions. The patient’s sihr in their body was also connected to the message via a invisible sihr network pathway. Now, if it was not for ruqya diagnosis, then none of this information could have been known!
There was also the sihr case that had two USB memory sticks as the taweezes. Again, if it was not for ruqya diagnosis, then this could not be known!

(14) RUQYA DIAGNOSIS ALLOWS US TO KNOW IF WE ARE CURED OR NOT

The main way to know if you are cured from your spiritual ailment is for you to do ruqya diagnosis. Once you keep getting negative results from your ruqya diagnosis then you can be certain that you have been cured by Allah.


CONCLUSION

Ruqya diagnosis is an established Islamic way to find out if you have a spiritual ailment or not and it is knowingly or unknowingly practised by every single raqi in the world even if they initially call their first ruqya session on new patients ‘treatment’ because it is in reality a diagnosis by default, whether they accept it or not and the mere changing of the name to ‘treatment’ doesn’t change the actual reality of what they are really doing. There is no way around it, YOUR FIRST RUQYA SESSION FOR SPIRITUAL AILMENTS WILL ALWAYS BE A RUQYA DIAGNOSIS SESSION!

The main difference between ruqya diagnosis and ruqya treatment is in the intention so please remember that!

The Sahaba didn’t need ruqya diagnosis. This is because their ruqya treatment was very strong and it would cure them quickly. However, in our time, we need ruqya diagnosis to help us because our ruqya treatment is weak and it takes a long time to get the cure from Allah. While we are waiting for the ruqya cure, we can use our ruqya diagnostic results to help us treat ourselves more comprehensively and to advise ourselves more appropriately.

Any ruqya diagnosis is approved or allowed by the Sunnah, if it is used in way that will benefit the patient (Saheeh Jam’i: 6019) and if it does not contain any shirk (Muslim: 5732). Ruqya diagnosis is not investigating or looking into the forbidden unseen and it does NOT use the help of jinn. Hence, it is not a bidah to do ruqya diagnosis for the spiritual ailments, according to the rules in the Sunnah. So therefore, those Muslims, who do not do ruqya diagnosis, should stop saying that people who do ruqya diagnosis are doing a bidah. 

All medical professionals do some sort of diagnosis before actually treating patients and none of them would ever ‘go-straight-to-treatment’ (unless they are actually using the initial ‘treatment’ as part of their final diagnosis as mentioned in our above example) because even the patients would not let them do that.

I don’t know where this idea came from that our initial ruqya treatment for spiritual ailments can never be seen as a type of diagnosis. Some people don’t want anyone to benefit from their first ruqya treatment and if we try to diagnose the patient via our initial ruqya ‘treatment’ then they say it is a bidah! It is like those who claim this, close their eyes or turn away from the patient when they read their initial ‘ruqya treatment’. It is like they believe that there is absolutely no benefit in observing or noting down how the patient reacts to the their initial ‘ruqya treatment’. It is as if they see the ruqya reactions in the patient as something insignificant and not important or a total waste of time. This maybe due to the fact that they don’t understand or comprehend that it is ONLY the spiritual ailments that react to ruqya, while physical diseases don’t react at all. IF THEY KNEW THIS PRINCIPLE THEN THEY WOULD NOT BE CONFUSED ABOUT RUQYA DIAGNOSIS. 

We know that this knowledge of the spiritual ailments reacting to ruqya comes from experience and not from the sunnah but that itself does not make it a bidah. So if we get a reaction from a patient during our initial ruqya treatment then they definitely have a spiritual disease.

The reason there is so much confusion out there regarding ruqya diagnosis is because certain Sheikhs and scholars actually create this confusion. For example, recently, while I was on holiday, I listened to a Sheikh who was asked about how to diagnose ayn. Sadly, he didn’t know how to do it. He has a lot of ilm in other areas and I have definitely benefitted from him and still do, but here, he just doesn’t know or have a clue. You must understand that some sheikhs don’t know this topic of ruqya when it comes down to the experience side of it. They can tell you if you are doing shirk or bidah in ruqya or going against the Shariah but they can’t tell you things such as “what happens when ayn ruqya is read on a patient” or “how do we know when we are cured from ayn” or “how can I remove jinn from my body using hijama”. But this should not really be a surprise because just like we don’t expect a sheikh to know how to diagnose and treat cancer, etc, we shouldn’t expect them to know everything about the evil eye, especially if they are not known for teaching or writing about ruqya comprehensively ie from A to Z. So it is important to refer your questions on ruqya diagnosis and treatment of spiritual diseases to those specialists who have experience in the field, especially, if they themselves were afflicted with a spiritual illness and then they became cured from it.

I am not exactly sure why some Muslims are so against ruqya diagnosis for the spiritual ailments, when these same muslims readily accept medical diagnosis for physical diseases that medical professionals do and have been doing for centuries. If you accept one type of disease being diagnosed then you have to accept the concept or idea that the other type of disease can also be diagnosed, even if means are different, because the Shariah doesn’t say it can’t be done. Just because you don’t know how to diagnose spiritual diseases doesn’t mean it can’t be done.

Why do they accept medical diagnosis based on a treatment for a physical disease but won’t accept ruqya diagnosis based on ruqya treatment for a spiritual disease? Where did this separation come from? It is not from the Shariah! They do NOT shout ‘BIDAH’ when a medical doctor tries to diagnose a physical disease using a “treatment” so then why do they shout bidah when a raqi tries to diagnose a spiritual disease using ‘ruqya treatment’. 

There is no evidence that says that we can ONLY medically diagnose physical illnesses and we can’t diagnose spiritual ailments via ruqya treatment. The Shariah does not make a distinction nor a difference in the way we treat and deal with physical and spiritual ailments so then why are we making a difference! If we are able to diagnose one of them then surely we can diagnose the other even if the means or method of diagnosis is different.

I believe the reason why you may find some people that are strongly against ruqya diagnosis is because they have never been afflicted with a spiritual disease and so they have never really been in a predicament where they needed to get answers to the problems they were facing. If you are in a situation, where you have to make an important decision regarding divorcing your spouse and you really want to know if you are afflicted with the sihr of divorce, you will be more open to listen to different opinions and your heart will be more inclined to listen to those raqis who say that we can diagnose this type of sihr via ruqya because you can see how this truly benefits your immediate situation.

You can never beat personal experience in this field. This is why you usually find that the most knowledgeable raqis are those who have had a spiritual illness and then got cured through their own ruqya treatment. I personally believe that their opinions carry more weight than those raqis who have never been afflicted with any spiritual illness. This is similar to dream interpretation. The best Islamic dream interpreters are those who have actually experienced different types of truthful dreams themselves. This does not mean that a person cannot be an expert in ruqya unless they have experience. It just means that experience adds another dimension to understanding the topic. For example, when someone says to me that Surah Baqrah is the best for self ruqya, then my reply would be that it is not and that surahs falaq and nass are better than it. This opinion is from the Sunnah evidence, (ie surah baqrah was never used as self ruqya but falaq and nass were used as self ruqya by the Nabi Salalahu alayhi wasalam), and also from my own personal experience of using surah baqrah and surahs falaq and nass. I found the two surahs much stronger than baqrah. Experience also allows you to empathise with what patients are going through and this on its own, means a lot to them. The raqi with no experience can only really offer sympathy with no real empathy because he never suffered a spiritual illness.

When you carefully look at and study the benefits of ruqya diagnosis that I have mentioned above, you will have to agree that there are enough reasons to do ruqya diagnosis and you would not be able to argue against any of those benefits and you would have a tough time trying to justify not doing ruqya diagnosis.

Unfortunately, many people still don’t know how to do ruqya diagnosis on themselves or their families. For those of you who don’t know then I would recommend that you watch my YouTube videos: ‘Practical Self Ruqya Part 7.1- 6’ or ‘Practical Self Ruqya PART 1 & 3’.

If you are not sinning and you sincerely ask Allah to show you during ruqya diagnosis if you have a spiritual ailment or not, then Allah will show you inshallah and no jinnee can interfere or hide itself from the sincere islamic ruqya, just like no jinnee can negatively affect or interfere with normal dua to Allah; it is all about thinking well of Allah and not doubting his power!

For information and advice on ruqya: abulqasim1972@gmail.com [3]