Safety: A wash, not a drink. Patch-test first, keep it out of the eyes and off broken skin, and stop if the skin reacts. Alum and salt sting a wound; take care with children, in pregnancy, and on sensitive skin.
In this article
In short
- 01Medical first, alongside ruqyah: this bath may accompany medical treatment and must never delay or replace it.
- 02Three plain, permissible ingredients — ground sidr, ground alum and salt — mixed and divided into 7 equal parts, one a day.
- 03The reported cases, including the two of cancer, are a practitioner’s reports told as they were told. Cancer is treated by oncologists.
Sheikh Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Rumi described this seven-day bathing course, and experienced raqis report having tried it and found it beneficial for the evil eye and other afflictions, by Allah’s permission. It contains nothing but three plain, permissible ingredients (no shirk, nothing forbidden), which is what keeps a remedy lawful.
What you need
- 1 kg ground sidr (lote-tree leaf)
- 1 kg ground alum
- 1 kg salt
Mix the three together (3 kg in total) and divide the mixture into seven equal parts (about 430 g each), one for each day.
How to use it
- Each day, take one part and mix it into 3–5 litres of plain water. (The source specifies ordinary water for this bath, not recited-over water.)
- Pour it over the whole body in stages, from the head down.
- Then wash with ordinary water.
- Do this on seven consecutive days, in the time between Asr and Maghrib, or after Isha.
- Give charity every day of the course, even something small.
- If needed, the course may be repeated a week after the first one ends.
The 7 days — one part in 3–5 litres, between ‘Asr and Maghrib or after ‘Ishā, with charity each day
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Alongside the bath, keep to what always comes first: the daily Quran, the ruqyah verses, and the morning and evening adhkār; the bath is a helper, not the treatment itself.
What practitioners report
The source relates trying this course for the eye, sihr and mass with clear benefit. It further relates two cases of cancer (one breast, one stomach) among those treated, and even an Arabian horse struck by an eye that recovered by the fifth day. Keep the frame: these are a practitioner’s reported experiences, related as they were told. Cancer is treated by oncologists; nothing on this page may ever delay or replace medical treatment. Du‘ā, Quran and permitted remedies heal by Allah’s permission.
Sensible cautions
- Do not use it on broken or irritated skin: alum and salt sting. Stop if the skin reacts.
- Keep the mixture out of the eyes, and away from children unsupervised.
- If you are under medical care for a skin condition, ask your doctor first.
Sources
- Sheikh Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Rumi — the seven-day sidr, alum and salt bathing course
- Classical and practitioner sources — see Methodology → Our sources
Prophetic medicine — why Islam commands you to seek treatment
“Prophetic medicine” (al-tibb al-shar‘i) means everything the Quran and Sunnah point to as healing, whether named in detail (honey, black seed) or in general (ruqyah, du‘ā).
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