From Abbas al-Duri, who said: “I heard Ibn Ma’in say: ‘When I would enter my home at night, I would recite Ayat al-Kursi over my home and my family five times.”
“While I was reciting, something spoke to me, saying: ‘How much do you recite this? As if there is no one else who can recite well besides you!'”
“So I said: ‘I see this displeases you! By Allah, I shall increase it for you!'”
“Thereafter, I began to recite it fifty or sixty times a night.”
[Siyar A’lam al-Nubala’, 11/87]
The following benefits can be derived from this report:
1- Jinn may inhabit some homes and attempt to harm the household members, either through sounds or movements within the house, such as extinguishing lights and similar actions.
2- Frequent recitation of the Qur’an harms the jinn and expels them from the home, especially Ayat al-Kursi, which has a significant effect in weakening the shayatin (plural of shaytan).
3-Some jinn may speak to humans with a discernible voice, but without humans being able to see them.
-by Shaikh Sultan bin Abdullah Al-‘Amri
(Translated by Mohammed bin Thajammul Hussain Manna from the Arabic website.)
Additional Points To Understand (by the translator):
1- Ayat al-Kursi has many virtues generally mentioned in the Ahadith.
2- In the above narration Imam Yahya ibn Ma’in recites Ayat al-Kursi more than once, in a manner not exactly mentioned in the Ahadith.
3- This shows that for Ruqya, what is necessary is that the Ruqya is free of Shirk and anything that is impermissible.
4- Ruqya is not Tawqeefiyah (strictly based on a narrated text from The Quran and The Sunnah), but is based on Tajurbah (previous experience).
5- From Shaykh Saleh bin Fawzan Al-Fawzan.
🔉The questioner asks: Is Ruqyah (Islamic exorcism/incantation) Tawqeefi (restricted to prescribed texts), or is Tajurbah (working based on experience) permissible, given that it is for treatment and not for worship, and may Allah reward you?
Shaykh Saleh Al-Fawzan: What is Ruqyah…. (pardon)…?
Questioner: Restricted to prescribed texts?
Shaykh Saleh Al-Fawzan: How is it restricted? Ruqyah is by the Quran and by supplications, and by supplications that conform to the Book and the Sunnah. Even if its exact wording is not explicitly mentioned, as long as it conforms, even if its exact wording is not explicitly mentioned, there is no harm in that. So it is not restricted to prescribed texts. Yes. Allah Almighty knows best, and may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad. End of the answer.
6- This is based on the Hadith-
‘Auf b. Malik Al-Ashja’i reported, ‘We practised Ruqya in the pre-Islamic days and we said: Allah’s Messenger, what is your opinion about it? He said: “Let me know your Ruqya and said: There is no harm in the Ruqya as long as there is no Shirk in it.” (Sahih Muslim 2200)
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