Shaykh Salaah Muhammad Aal - Shaykh
Question:
The first question is from Sister Mujahida from New York, she says: My
aunt has a daughter who is about 5 and can barely speak and recently
started walking. The doctors said there isn’t anything physically wrong
with her and she is just slow. Some claim that she has ‘ayn (عين
– evil eye) on her and someone suggested that she read Surah Ikhlaas X
number of times and she will start walking and talking. My aunt did
this for a while and my cousin started to walk. However, I was trying
to explain it to her if it was practised by the Sahaabah, but she says,
“It is a surah from the Qur’aan and Allaah سبحانه و تعالى says it’s a
book that cures, then what’s wrong with me reading it?” The questions
are:
i. How do I explain this issue to her?
ii. Is there any ruqyah from Qur’aan and Sunnah that I can give her and tell her to do on her daughter?
Answer:
About the question, as I understand it this lady is reading
suratul-Ikhlaas and she said inshaa’ Allaah in suratul-Ikhlaas there is
a cure. We should know that Allaah سبحانه و تعالى says in the Qur’aan:
وَنُنَزِّلُ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ مَا هُوَ شِفَاءٌ وَرَحْمَةٌ لِّلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَلاَ يَزِيدُ الظَّالِمِينَ إَلاَّ خَسَارًا
{And
We send down of the Qur'ān that which is a healing and a mercy to those
who believe (in Islāmic Monotheism and act on it), and it increases the
Zālimūn (polytheists and wrong-doers) nothing but loss.} [Al-Israa 17:82]
This cure includes the cure from doubts, cure from physical illness and also from the illness of the soul i.e. shak an-nafsiyyah (شك النفسية – doubting of the soul). So the Qur’aan is a shifaa’
(شفاء – cure). We know this, and we know that there are special surahs
that the Messenger of Allaah صلى الله عليه و سلم has guided us to, and
some aayaat, and we know the Qur’aan as a whole is ash-shifaa’ (The Cure). When you read Qur’aan Inshaa’ Allaah with the intention of shifaa’, and knowledge (understanding), it is shifaa’.
There are special surahs and aayaat like al-Faatihah, and the beginning
aayaat of surah al-Baqarah, and ayatul-Kursi, and suratul-Ikhlaas,
suratul-Kaafiroon, the muwaddataan (Surah al-Falaq and an-Naas). There
are verses which Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه و سلم tells us that if
you read them on a sick then Inshaa’ Allaah they will be cured. There
is also a saying of Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه و سلم that I think
she can find it in the Sunnah book (Hisnul Muslim) and if she asks her
Imaam, he will guide her to it like:
Place your hand at the site of the pain and say: Bismillah 'In the name of Allaah' (three times) Then supplicate seven times:
أَعُوْذُ بِاللهِ وَ قُدْرَتِهِ مِنْ شَرِّ مَا أَجِدُ وَ أُحَاذِرُ
A'oodhu billaahi wa qudratihi min sharri ma ajidu wa uhadhir
'I take refuge in Allaah and within His Omnipotence from the evil that I feel and am wary of.'[6]
Also from the Sunnah of Prophet صلى الله عليه و سلم is to recite:
أَذْهِبِ الْبَاسَ، رَبَّ النَّاسِ، وَاشْفِ أَنْتَ الشَّافِي، لاَ شِفَاءَ إِلاَّ شِفَاؤُكَ، شِفَاءً لاَ يُغَادِرُ سَقَماً
Adhibilba’s Rabbanaas wasfi antashaafee laa shifaa’a illa shifaauka shifaa’an laa yughaadiru saqamaa[7]
So the Qur’aan is shifaa’ and there are special surahs that we can say
on the sick person, and he can read them himself. However, specifying a
special surah or special aayaat that the Prophet صلى الله عليه و سلم did not mention, is wrong.
There is nothing that specifies this and specifying a number of times
to read this surah also does not come from Prophet Muhammad صلى الله
عليه و سلم, and the Sahaabah رضي الله عنهم did not do this, so we
should follow the way of using the ruqyah shar’iyyah (الشرعية
الرقية – permissible incantation). He should not be very harsh
regarding this. She is reading Qur’aan and surah al-Ikhlaas has special
meanings in it, so I think it is okay to read the Qur’aan but not
specific (parts); it is better to read the whole of surah al-Faatihah,
Ayatul-Kursi, suratul-Baqarah Wallaahu A’lam.
[6] Reported in Saheeh Muslim, Kitaab as-Salaam (#2203).
[7] Reported in Saheeh al-Bukhaaree, Kitaab at-Tibb (#5418) and Saheeh Muslim, Kitaab as-Salaam (#2191).
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