Specific Ruqya Diagnosis Is Not A Bidah

Version: 15th December 2024.

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INTRODUCTION

Bismillahi Walhamdulilah wa salatu wa salam ala Rasulilah

In this article I want to prove that specific ruqya is a not a bidah and that it is just an extended application of the general ruqya diagnosis that many Muslims already accept.

Before I discuss specific ruqya diagnosis, please read my other article on my website: “The Importance of Ruqya Diagnosis” so that you understand the evidences for general ruqya diagnosis. Once you understand the evidences for general ruqya diagnosis then you will appreciate and easily understand the evidence for specific ruqya diagnosis.

SPECIFIC RUQYA DIAGNOSIS: THE THEORY

Now, after reading my article: “The Importance of Ruqya Diagnosis”, you must agree with me that general ruqya diagnosis is legitimate and not a bidah…….HOW ELSE ARE YOU GOING TO TELL IF YOU ARE CURED FROM SIHR OR ANY OTHER SPIRITUAL AILMENTS. We must understand and be honest with ourselves about what is really going on with our first ruqya session. Frankly, there is no way around it, your first ruqya session for spiritual ailments, BY DEFAULT, will always automatically be a ruqya diagnosis session whether you like it or not and using the term ‘treatment’ does not change the reality of what is truly going on.

Specific ruqya diagnosis is just using the same understanding of the hadith of intentions and knowing that ruqya is basically a dua to Allah that must not contain shirk and must be beneficial to the patient (as mentioned in the hadiths in the previous section). Once these are firmly grounded in your mind then you will see that specific ruqya diagnosis is just an extension of the general ruqya diagnosis that you have already accepted.

We can also add to the above understanding, our firm belief that there is definitely a specific spiritual disease that is called the sihr of divorce (sihr tafreeq) that is clearly mentioned in the Quran (Surah 2:102). Now, if someone is ONLY suffering from this sihr of divorce, then the ruqya treatment that is used to treat this specific sihr is by default a specific ruqya treatment (ie the ruqya specifically targets and attacks the sihr of divorce) which then necessitates that the first ruqya “treatment” session for this said patient is by default a specific ruqya diagnosis session.

If you accept there is such a thing as sihr of divorce then you have to accept the specific ruqya treatment for the sihr of divorce which then obliges you to accept the specific ruqya diagnosis for the sihr of divorce……..AND IF YOU HAVE ACCEPTED ONE SPECIFIC RUQYA DIAGNOSIS THEN YOU MUST ACCEPT THE OTHERS!

PRESENT CONDITION OF THE PATIENT

We are now going to use some examples to try and explain this concept of specific ruqya diagnosis and how it can be used to gain information about the present condition of the patient and also the past condition of the patient that is related to or affecting him in the present.

It is permissible to do these two types of ruqya diagnosis (ie past & present condition) 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, e.g. using ruqya diagnosis. 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 diagnosis with a sihr patient using ruqya diagnosis and that is because the intention and dua of ruqya have NOT been fixed by the Shariah.

When a patient wants to see if he has sihr of divorce then he has 3 options:

1. Read ruqya on himself using ayah 102 of Surah Baqarah, particularly focusing on that part of the ayah that speaks about sihr causing divorce.

2. Read a ruqya dua on himself in Arabic that he constructed himself with the intention of diagnosing sihr: Asalullaahal An yashfinee min sihr tafreeq (I ask Allah that he cure me from the sihr of separation (divorce)

3. Read a general sihr ayah as ruqya on himself from the Quran like ayah 4 of surah falaq but he reads it with the intention of looking for sihr of divorce.

I don’t want look at which is the better method right now but I want to prove that all of the above is correct and not a bidah. If you want more discussion about the the 3 methods then please watch practical self ruqya part 2 on youtube.

Let us just focus on method 2 because we can see the dua that the patient is making and it allows us to make a comparison between his actual dua and his intention in his heart.

Now, imagine the patient did a general diagnosis using intention ‘O Allah show me if I have sihr’ and used the Arabic dua: ‘Asalullaah An yashfiyanee min sihr’ (I ask Allah to cure me from sihr) and then he got a reaction and therefore we concluded that he had sihr AND WE ALREADY EXPLAINED ABOVE, IN THE FIRST PART OF THIS ARTICLE, WHY THIS GENERAL RUQYA DIAGNOSIS IS PERMISSIBLE. So he currently has general sihr and he is definitely suffering from it because that is what our diagnosis has told us. Who told us or who gave us this information?…..ALLAH DID…..we could not do it without Allah’s help and mercy. This is not looking into or guessing the unseen as some have claimed but it is Allah who answered the dua and then showed us that the patient currently has sihr…….Sadly many forget that ruqya is a dua to Allah and that he is personally involved in the whole process. We just recite and have intentions in our hearts and it is Allah who causes the ruqya dua to work or not. Allah does accept the dua of pious Muslims and from what I have seen, ruqya dua is never rejected if it is sincerely and islamically done for Allah……ie Allah will cause the ruqya to affect the patient immediately and directly.

Now, imagine again that this person thinks that he also has sihr of divorce because of the issues he is having in his marriage but he is not 100% sure that he has this type of sihr but he still starts reading ruqya treatment with the Arabic ruqya dua: ‘Asalullaah An yashfiyanee min sihr tafreeq (meaning: I ask Allah that he cure me from the sihr of divorce), to see if he reacts to this dua as ruqya treatment. His new intention is not in line with the new dua and his actual intention is: ‘O Allah Show me if I have sihr of divorce’……because be wants to see how he reacts. Even though the Arabic wording of his dua is ‘I ask Allah that he cure me from the sihr of divorce’ 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 of divorce with the literal wording of the dua, in reality, he is doing diagnosis ruqya for the sihr of divorce because the real intention in his heart of wanting to see how he reacts, overides his actual verbal action of reading ruqya ie the words that come out of his mouth. SO THE MERE DOUBT IN THE HEART AND HIS INTENTION TO SEE HOW HE WILL REACT TO THE RUQYA, HAS CHANGED THE ACTION OF TREATMENT RUQYA TO THE ACTION OF DIAGNOSIS RUQYA. How can this be pure treatment of sihr of divorce (ie asking Allah for cure) when he himself is not sure that he has sihr of divorce and that doubt in the heart renders the ruqya into a diagnosis ruqya rather than a pure 100 % treatment ruqya. Therefore, because he wants to see how he reacts, his real intention and BY DEFAULT, HIS REAL VERBAL ACTION OF RUQYA is ‘O Allah show me if I have sihr of divorce’ while using the Arabic dua: “Asalullaah An yashfiyanee min sihr tafreeq” (I ask Allah that he cure me from sihr of divorce’). If he gets a reaction to this ruqya treatment then we conclude that he has sihr of divorce.

Another good example of this specific ruqya diagnosis is when the patient wants to find out if the possessing jinnee that is presently in him is giving him waswaas now to divorce his wife. This is particular important when the patient doesn’t react to the sihr of divorce ie possessing jinnee is not a jinnee from sihr. So if you want to find out if a jinnee from ayn is giving you waswaas for divorce then your only option is to do this specific ruqya.

This explains how we work out the current situation of the patient via specific ruqya diagnosis

PAST CONDITION OF THE PATIENT RELATED TO HIS PRESENT CONDITION

Let us imagine that the patient has a feeling that he may have eaten the sihr of divorce ie HE IS NOT 100% SURE HE ATE IT…… and let us imagine in reality there is no other source of sihr other than the fact that he really DID eat all of it but he himself does NOT know it or believe it and obviously he has doubts about that as he does not have any information to make it certain that he ate the sihr of divorce. Having said all of that and while having this doubt in his heart, the patient STILL changes his Arabic ruqya dua into (I ask Allah that he cures me from the sihr of divorce which I ate) to see if he will react to it. Now, we said that in reality all of the sihr was actually eaten in the past and therefore the sihr has this non changeable attribute or permanent characteristic that it is all sihr that was once eaten. Obviously, the action of eating has finished and some of the sihr is currently in the stomach of our patient BUT THIS ATTRIBUTE OF EATEN SIHR WILL ALWAYS BE PART OF THE SIHR ITSELF and this characteristic cannot NEVER change and it is a reality and fact. When the patient starts to “TREAT” himself with the Arabic dua that I just mentioned, he in fact won’t be doing treatment at all but he will be doing diagnosis because he wants to see if he reacts to the ruqya and also the doubt in his heart will change the intention to ‘O ALLAH SHOW ME IF I HAVE SIHR OF DIVORCE THAT I HAVE EATEN’…….this intention is what is REALLY happening and so the action of ruqya becomes diagnosis and not treatment. The intention in his heart, ie his desire to see if he reacts, has made the ruqya a diagnosis ruqya because actions are ONLY by intentions and his intention of diagnosis will overide the actual wording of the dua……he outwardly looks like he is treating eaten sihr but in reality he is diagnosing eaten sihr because that’s his REAL intention. If the patient gets a reaction to this ruqya then we can conclude that he has sihr of divorce that he has eaten some time in the past and that he is suffering from now.

Another good example of this specific ruqya diagnosis is when the patient wants to know if the possessing jinnee that is presently in him, gave him waswaas to divorce his wife yesterday or last week. This is particular important when the patient doesn’t react to the sihr of divorce ie possessing jinnee is not a jinnee from sihr and when a husband has already pronounced the first talaq (divorce). So if you want to find out if a jinnee from ayn is giving you waswaas for divorce then your only option is to do this specific ruqya.

It might be that a patient with a love jinnee might get severe waswaas to divorce his wife and then the patient finally caves in and agrees in himself to divorce the wife and starts making preparations. This preparation period might take a few hours and during it, he might feel euphoric and relieved that he is actually going to divorce his wife (this euphoric feeling will obviously come from the jinn as waswas). The initial severe waswaas to divorce has gone and is no longer felt by the patient but the love jinnee, that was responsible for it, is still there. Even though the severe waswaas happened a few hours ago, we can still read specific ruqya diagnosis to find out if the current possessing love jinnee was the cause of the waswas to divorce. If we don’t do this specific ruqya then a divorce might occur. (I believe that some of the most important specific ruqyas are those that are to do with preventing divorce).

This explains how we work out the past condition or situation of the patient that is affecting him now.

OUR PATIENT WHO IS SUFFERING FROM SIHR OF DIVORCE WHICH HE HAD EATEN VISITS A STRAIGHT-TO-TREATMENT RAQI

If our above patient decides to visit a straight-to-treatment raqi and asks the raqi to do ruqya diagnosis on him, the straight-to-ruqya-treatment raqi might say that he doesn’t do ruqya diagnosis at all and he only does ruqya treatment. The patient insists that he really does have sihr but this raqi is obviously unsure as many patients believe that they suffer from sihr but they actually don’t have sihr. Now, since the raqi is unsure in his own heart what the patient really has (which means he will look for reactions, when reading ruqya) then the ruqya the raqi performs cannot really be treatment and that the intention in the raqi’s heart makes the action of ruqya a diagnosis ruqya as we have already explained.

Lets imagine our patient ONLY has sihr of divorce and he had eaten ALL of the sihr which consists of the sihr in the stomach and a sihr jinnee…..HE HAS NO AYN OR OTHER JINN IN HIM AND HE HAS NO OTHER SIHR. HE DOES HAVE WASWAAS CONDITIONING FROM THE SIHR JINNEE BUT THE RAQI DOES NOT BELIEVE IN THAT SO NO RUQYA WILL AFFECT THAT WASWAAS CONDITIONING BECAUSE THE RAQI WON’T MAKE THE INTENTION TO “TREAT” WASWAAS CONDITIONING.

Now, straight-to-ruqya-treatment raqis usually just do an ALL-IN-ONE ruqya covering any sihr, jinn or ayn and they usually don’t differentiate their intentions and so their ruqya will hit all of these 3 spiritual ailments at the same time.

Now, if the raqi actually does this all-in-one ruqya on our patient whereby he is asking Allah to attack all 3 spiritual ailments at the same time……Can you see (may Allah make it easy for you to see) that when the straight-to-ruqya-treatment raqi actually does his ruqya on our patient that he is in reality doing a specific ruqya diagnosis BUT THE RAQI DOES NOT KNOW IT. In reality, because he has a doubt that our patient has any sihr and the fact the raqi wants to see reactions, then his real intention must be ‘O Allah show me if this patient has a jinn, ayn or sihr’ and it can’t be treatment ‘O Allah cure this patient from sihr, jinn or ayn’ and ALL of his ruqya, ONLY hits the sihr of divorce, the sihr that was eaten and the sihr jinnee BECAUSE THATS ALL THE PATIENT IS SUFFERING FROM…….so if that is ONLY what the raqi’s ruqya is hitting then that is specific ruqya diagnosis in of itself, because there is no other spiritual ailment for his ruqya to attack or hit. When I do the specific ruqya diagnosis with the intention of the sihr of divorce on the same patient then I will get exactly the same results as the raqi did ie my ruqya will hit the same things ie the sihr of divorce, sihr that was eaten and the sihr jinnee…..so if I have been criticised for doing specific ruqya diagnosis at least we know and admit it and that is far better than those who actually do it sometimes but don’t actually admit it because they are ignorant of the fact that they are really doing specific ruqya diagnosis……ie they are ready to criticise us but they themselves do the same specific ruqya diagnosis as I do, occasionally, without them knowing or being aware of it.

Take another example of a patient who just has ayn hasid and no other spiritual ailments so when the straight-to-ruqya-treatment raqi reads on this person for the very first time the only thing that will react to the ruqya is the ayn hasid and nothing else because that’s all the person is suffering from. If I read on this same person the specific ruqya diagnosis for ayn hasid then obviously only the ayn hasid will react and nothing else because my intention is ONLY to read on the ayn hasid. Now, the raqi will call and define what he did as ruqya treatment whereas I will call it specific ruqya diagnosis for ayn hasid. In reality, these are just names we are using and the real result of the ruqya is that we both did specific ruqya diagnosis because we both had some doubt if the person was really afflicted so we looked for reactions and both our ruqyas ONLY ATTACKED THE AYN HASID and our ruqyas did not hit anything else in the person. When you look at the patient, he exhibits exactly the same reactions for both ruqyas….NO DIFFERENCE……IT IS EXACTLY SAME RUQYA BUT DIFFERENT NAMES HAVE BEEN USED TO DESCRIBE IT. IN ISLAM, WE LOOK AT THE REALITY OF THINGS NOT JUST NAMES……..so the reality is that the straight-to-ruqya-treatment raqi and I, myself have done exactly the same thing with both patients. He calls what he did ruqya treatment whereas I call it specific ruqya diagnosis BUT THESE ARE JUST OUR DEFINITIONS OF EXACTLY THE SAME OUTCOME AND REALITY……WE HAVE BOTH DONE THE SAME RUQYA BUT CALLED IT DIFFERENT NAMES.

If we are really honest with ourselves then the raqi will have to admit that he sometimes must be doing specific ruqya diagnosis IN REALITY without his knowledge or without him being aware of it……and therefore he should not criticise other raqis who do specific ruqya diagnosis and say that they are doing a bidah, when he himself does it.

A SPIRITUAL AILMENT CURRENTLY CAUSING PROBLEMS OR ILLNESSES

We already know from the Quran that sihr can cause divorce and from the sunnah we know that ayn can cause an illness such as when the sahabi fell unconscious. Since we know the spiritual ailments can have a real effect on a patient then it is possible to check to see what the spiritual ailment is actually causing in the patient via ruqya. This can ONLY be done because it is Allah who answers the the dua of ruqya and we definitely don’t know the answer until Allah answers the ruqya dua and allows the ruqya dua to affect the spiritual ailment in the patient.
In some occasions, a patient might be diagnosed with sihr of divorce but we might find after doing another specific ruqya diagnosis that the sihr is actually dormant, not active and not causing any problems in the patient’s current marriage. However, if this patient gets married to a second wife the sihr will become activated. We have also seen one or two cases where the patient has sihr of divorce but is not married and obviously if they do get married then the sihr MIGHT become active. All this is possible because the contract of sihr is one separate thing and the effects or workings of the sihr are another separate thing. So a patient might make the ruqya dua in Arabic ‘O Allah cure me of this sihr of divorce that is currently affecting my marriage’ and not get a reaction but they do get a reaction for sihr of divorce. This is because they have added to the dua the phrase ‘….that is currently affecting my marriage’. This addition caused a negative result because there is no sihr that is currently affecting the marriage ie the jinn from sihr are NOT giving any waswaas for divorce in this current marriage. As we explained earlier, this in reality is a diagnosis ruqya and not treatment ruqya and the intention and real dua of this ruqya action is: ‘O Allah show me if I have sihr of divorce that is currently affecting my marriage’. WE MUST REMEMBER THAT A NEGATIVE RESULT OF RUQYA DIAGNOSIS IS ALSO ALLAH ANSWERING THE RUQYA DUA. This is because the patient asks Allah during diagnosis to either ‘show me if I have sihr’ or ‘show me if I don’t have sihr’, so the patient either expects a positive result or negative result from Allah and is happy with both. Another married patient might react to both the sihr of divorce and the sihr of divorce affecting his current marriage ie the jinn from sihr are actively working to destroy the marriage and are giving the patient waswas to divorce spouse.

If a patient thinks but is not sure if the ayn he is suffering from is causing his current cancer illness but he still calls Allah with the ruqya dua in Arabic ‘O Allah cure me from this ayn that is causing my current cancer’ and he gets a reaction to this dua then the ayn is currently causing the cancer. Obviously, this is specific ruqya diagnosis and not treatment as I have already explained and the real intention and BY DEFAULT HIS REAL ACTION OF RUQYA IS: ‘O Allah show me if this ayn is causing the current cancer’ (Meaning you are asking Allah to attack the ayn with ruqya, if it is causing the current cancer)

Another good example of this type of specific ruqya diagnosis is when a patient wants to find out if the current illness, such as a severe headache, is being caused by their possessing jinn or jinnee.

A SPIRITUAL AILMENT THAT CAUSED PROBLEMS OR ILLNESSES IN THE PAST

Now, a patient that unknowingly had sihr of divorce and got married and then unfortunately got divorced and didn’t realise all of his marriage problems and actual divorce were due to the sihr of divorce. This patient, who is now single and not married, after being spoken to about the reality of sihr decides to do ‘ruqya treatment’ (diagnosis in reality) and calls on Allah in Arabic with the ruqya dua ‘O Allah cure me from this sihr divorce that destroyed my previous marriage’. If he gets a reaction then that very sihr was involved in the destruction of his previous marriage ie the possessing jinn from sihr that is in him now, gave the patient waswas to divorce spouse. It should be noted that this sihr of divorce that this patient is still suffering from would obviously have sihr jinn that would react to the above ruqya and that would have caused all the problems between the couple and they are still in him and probably waiting to cause more misery in his next marriage. Not all sihr jinn leave once a divorce has happened but some may stay until the next marriage and this will depend on what exactly was done in the sihr contract between the sahir and jinn.
As we have said before, his doubt in his heart that he is actually suffering from any sihr at all makes his intention overide the actual wording of the dua in Arabic and so the real action of ruqya becomes a specific ruqya diagnosis that informs us that the current sihr the patient is suffering from had actually caused the divorce in the past. So his ruqya action is ‘O Allah show me if this sihr had caused my divorce’. If he gets a reaction then we conclude that the sihr he has, had indeed caused his divorce ie the jinn from sihr gave the patient waswas to divorce his wife which he acted upon. We can only know this via ruqya and it is Allah who gives us this information and no one else. WE CANNOT KNOW THIS INFORMATION WITHOUT ALLAH. Knowing this information about his divorce is very important. The patient can now contact his previous wife and get married to her again or take her back if it is still the iddah period.

This ruqya can also be applied to a patient who is still suffering from ayn and wants to know if this same ayn actually caused his previous illness.
If a patient thinks but is not sure if the ayn he is suffering from now had caused his previous cancer illness yet he still calls on Allah with the ruqya dua in Arabic ‘O Allah cure me from this ayn that caused my previous cancer’ and he gets a reaction to this dua then the ayn he has currently caused the cancer. Obviously, this is specific ruqya diagnosis and not treatment as I have already explained and the real intention and BY DEFAULT HIS REAL ACTION OF RUQYA IS: ‘O Allah show me if this ayn I have now had caused the cancer in the past’

Another good example of this specific ruqya diagnosis is when a patient wants to find out if a past illness, that has been cured, was caused by their possessing jinn that is currently still in them.

SPECIFIC RUQYA DIAGNOSIS: NO SHIRK, BIDAH OR ANYTHING HARAM!

As you can see from the above examples and discussion, specific ruqya diagnosis allows us to extract important information about the patient and his spiritual affliction from the ruqya itself that will help the patient.
No bidah has been committed, all the duas that I have mentioned contain no shirk (Muslim: 5732), all the intentions are islamic and ALL the ruqyas were beneficial to the patient (Al-Albani: Saheeh Jam’i 6019). Nothing haram or inappropriate was asked for and NON OF THE SPECIFIC RUQYA IS AGAINST SHARIAH and therefore Allah answers the dua with a positive or negative result.

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 specific ruqya diagnosis, especially certain specific ruqya diagnoses that actually help the Muslims in their deen, such as the specific 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 did not go against Islam. Specific 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. Hence, whoever Allah has guided to practice specific ruqya diagnosis, then this practice is more in line with the said hadith and the encouragement of the Nabi salalahu alayhi wasalam, as it provides much more beneficial ruqya to the Muslim patients than just ruqya treatment. How can we deny this fact and reality when we know the above hadith and we also know the hadith of the Nabi salalahu alayhi wasalam: “The most beloved people to Allah, are those who are the most beneficial to the people” (Al-Albani: Sahih. Silsilah 906). Therefore, practicing specific ruqya diagnosis in all its different types and variations to help the Muslims is a mercy and a precious gift from Allah subhanahu wa taala, the One who is the Giver of Light and Guidance (An-Nur), and NOTHING AND NOBODY would EVER be in light and guidance without Him.

You should not worry about those people who might criticise this practice. We have already seen from the above mentioned proofs that practicing specific ruqya diagnosis can be a means to gain Allahs pleasure, love and a great amount of reward, because it combines the Prophet’s (salalahu alaihi wa salam) encouragement to be creative in Ruqya and it is also beneficial to your Muslim brothers and sisters, and there is a great reward in that.

There is no doubt in my mind that if someone really understands this issue of ruqya diagnosis and the importance of it and he wants to be amongst the most beloved people to Allah, then he would do his best to understand ruqya diagnosis and specific ruqya diagnosis in detail.

If it is said that we must take every specific ruqya diagnosis dua or intention back to scholars before using it and that we should never allow lay Muslims, such as myself, to invent NEW specific ruqya diagnoses for themselves and even others. I say that such a statement is only correct for those people who do not have much knowledge or experience regarding specific ruqya diagnosis. However, if the person understands the principles of specific ruqya diagnoses and he has experience of using it correctly then such a person does not need to refer to scholars because this issue of making a NEW specific ruqya diagnosis is not an issue of ijjtihad or fatwa that needs a scholar. It is like the issue of making a NEW normal dua that no one has ever heard before: eg “O Allah let my car get to the front of this service queue so that I can get to the masjid early”. A person making such a dua will not phone a scholar and ask if he can make this dua or not and this is because he has enough knowledge that his new dua that he just invented is permissible. Likewise, the same applies to specific ruqya diagnosis. If the person has enough knowledge then there is no need to call a scholar about it.

Sadly, many seem to not realise that ruqya is a dua so there has to either be a positive result or a negative result from the ruqya itself because that’s what ruqya dua is all about. WE ASK ALLAH TO GIVE US A POSITIVE RESULT OR NEGATIVE RESULT and through this ruqya dua we get the information we need. A negative result is NOT the ruqya dua being rejected but it is a sign that the dua was accepted and answered because we either ask Allah to show us if the patient has sihr of divorce (positive result) and at the same time we ask Allah to show if the patient is free of sihr of divorce (negative result).

NEVER DIAGNOSE THE SPIRITUAL AILMENTS LIKE YOU DIAGNOSE THE PHYSICAL AILMENTS: DON’T JUST USE BACKGROUND HISTORY AND PATIENT INFORMATION TO DIAGNOSE PATIENTS

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 being 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.

CONCLUSION

I hope that this discussion has made it possible for those who think that specific ruqya is a bidah to change their mind.

It is all about understanding the above hadiths on the intentions, patient’s benefit of ruqya and no shirk in ruqya and how we can use these hadiths to help diagnose ourselves with specific ruqya and then with this diagnosis, we are in a better situation and position to treat and advise ourselves.

If you agree and have accepted general sihr diagnosis and general ayn diagnosis, which are IN REALITY a type of specific ruqya diagnosis, then what is preventing you from accepting specific ruqya diagnosis! Both general sihr diagnosis and general ayn diagnosis are ACTUALLY a type of specific ruqya diagnosis, where we ONLY read ruqya specifically on the sihr or the ayn in the body and we ignore everything else that the patient could be afflicted with. If you accept these two, then you really cannot argue against a patient who ONLY wants to read ruqya on the sihr of divorce that is in his body, and which might be the ONLY sihr that the patient is suffering from.

If you accept general sihr ruqya diagnosis then you have no choice but to also accept the specific ruqya diagnosis for the sihr of divorce and even other ones as well.

If you accept the existence of the spiritual disease: “the sihr of divorce” (Sura Baqrah: 102) then obviously, you must also accept the specific ruqya treatment for this sihr of divorce, which then obliges you to accept the specific ruqya diagnosis for the sihr of divorce. This is because your first ruqya “treatment” session will ALWAYS be a ruqya diagnosis session.

It was through specific ruqya that I got cured from ALL of my spiritual ailments and that is why I always promote it and talk about it because I know it really works! If you want more information about how I used specific ruqya then please read the article ‘HOW ALLAH CURED ME’ via the link below.

How Allah Cured me

Specific ruqya diagnosis also stops us from speaking to jinn and being amazed at them and it closes the door of asking the jinn about the situation of the patient ie diagnosis. It also keeps us away from asking help from the jinn which is shirk because specific ruqya diagnosis provides us with the information about the state of the patient and his spiritual affliction without having to speak to jinn or using the jinn’s help.

Now, I have to mention that there are some rules for specific ruqya diagnosis that you can read via the link below:

7 Rules for Specific Ruqya
I had to personally put these together as I could not find any rules on the topic that could help patients and at the same time stop them from falling into shirk and bidah. PLEASE FOLLOW THESE RULES CAREFULLY as it is possible to make serious errors in constructing your specific intentions.

If you are new to specific ruqya and are unsure if your specific ruqya intentions (and by default your actions of ruqya) are permissible then please contact me on the email below and I will try my best to answer your query.

……..and with Allah is the success and cure.

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