Ruqyahandcuppingtogether

The ruling

Hijama is enormously popular and very often offered alongside ruqyah — the same premises, the same appointment, sometimes recitation during the procedure itself.

There is no objection to combining them. In ruqyah there is healing by Allah's permission and in cupping there is healing by Allah's permission, and a person who does both may be healed through either or through both. Reciting during hijama is likewise reported as beneficial in practitioner experience, and the scholars note that experience carries weight in matters of medicine and ruqyah.

The correction

The sentence worth the page comes from a fatwa, and it ought to be pinned up in a good many clinics:

Evil is not a tangible substance in the body that can be removed by drawing blood.

Set that against how hijama is often sold to the afflicted — that the sihr is in the blood, that the eye settles in the blood, that it will be drawn out. Cups are applied, dark blood appears, and everybody in the room believes they have watched something leave.

That is not what is happening, and the scholars say so directly. Harm from the jinn and their devils is repelled by remembrance, by supplication and by lawful ruqyah, not by a physical procedure on the body.

Hijama, on the classical account, is a medical treatment for what medical treatments address. It has a substantial place in prophetic medicine, and this site's page on remedies with evidence sits alongside it. Which makes the honest framing the same one we give everywhere else: hijama runs alongside ruqyah exactly as medicine does. Neither is the other, and neither does the other's work.

What that rules out

Diagnosis by blood. The colour, texture or quantity of what comes out does not tell anybody whether a person is afflicted, and a practitioner who reads your blood and pronounces on sihr has done something outside anybody's competence.

A cure sold on the appearance of a procedure. Something visible happening is persuasive, and persuasive is not the same as effective.

And it does not replace a doctor. Cupping is a procedure that breaks the skin; it carries the ordinary risks of that, it should be done by somebody competent and clean, and it is not a substitute for investigating why you are unwell.

If you want to do both there is no reason not to. Recite over yourself before you go, or have Quran recited during if that is offered and you would like it. Simply do not expect to see anything leave, and do not let anybody tell you that they saw it.