Ruqyahandcuppingtogether

The ruling

Hijamah is popular and 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 hijamah is likewise reported as beneficial in practitioner experience, and the scholars note that experience carries weight in matters of medicine and ruqyah.

The correction

One sentence from a fatwa ought to be pinned up in every clinic:

Set that against how hijamah 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.

Hijamah, 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. So hijamah runs alongside ruqyah as medicine does. Neither does the other’s work.

What that rules out

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. Do not expect to see anything leave, and do not let anybody tell you that they saw it.