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A prized date of Madinah. The Prophet ﷺ said that seven, eaten first thing in the morning, protect that day from poison and sihr.

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The evil eye: harm that reaches a person through another’s look of admiration or envy, even unintended, even from a loved one.

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Remembrances of Allah: the morning and evening du‘ās and phrases taught by the Prophet ﷺ. Daily protection.

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The “lover jinn”: the practitioners’ name for the sexual, harassing form of possession. A diagnostic category from practice, not from a text; anything a doctor can name still goes to the doctor.

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A trace: an item carrying someone’s sweat or scent. In treating the evil eye, the caster’s trace may be used for the wash the Sunnah prescribes; sorcerers misuse a victim’s trace to target them.

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Saying “Bismillāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm”: in the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Bestower of mercy. The opening of recitation and of ruqyah.

Incense. Used widely in ruqyah practice; scholars asked about it have held that fumigating a patient has no basis in the Sunnah.

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Supplication: asking Allah directly. Ruqyah is a form of du‘ā.

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A full ritual wash. In treating the evil eye, the Sunnah is for the one who cast the eye to wash and for that water to be poured over the afflicted.

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“The speech of the self”: a dream made of what the mind was already turning over while awake. The commonest of the three kinds by a wide margin.

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Envy: wishing a blessing removed from someone. Its harm is sought refuge from in Sūrat al-Falaq.

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Cupping: drawing blood through small cuts under suction cups, a treatment from the Sunnah. Only ever with a licensed, hygienic practitioner, and never against medical advice.

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A distressing dream, from the shayṭān. It carries no message to be uncovered; causing the distress was the point.

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A rope paid out: wonders Allah allows at the hands of the corrupt, drawing them further into ruin. Why marvels are never proof that a “healer” is righteous.

Asking Allah’s forgiveness: saying astaghfirullāh and meaning it. A standing part of every treatment programme, since sins are the breach through which harm enters.

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“The presser”: waking unable to move or speak, often with a weight on the chest and a sense of a presence. Medicine calls it sleep paralysis; the classical sources place it among the ways the shayṭān attacks from outside the body.

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Beings created from smokeless fire, unseen by us; some are Muslim, some are shayāṭīn. Harm from them is real but only by Allah’s permission.

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Cautery: burning the skin, a last-resort practice of classical medicine. Do not do this today; if a “healer” offers burning, leave.

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Humility and presence of heart, above all in the prayer, where the heart attends to what the tongue is saying.

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An old Arabic word for a light touch of madness from the jinn, a mild mass. Known in the language even before Islam.

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A close male relative a woman may not marry (father, brother, son…). He must be present when a woman sees a raqi.

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Writing Quranic verses, washing the ink off into water, and drinking or sprinkling it. Rooted in a Companion’s precedent and allowed by scholars including Ibn Bāz, though others differ.

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The touch or possession of a jinn affecting a person’s body or mind, described in al-Baqarah 2:275.

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The obstacles held to prevent ruqyah taking effect. A checklist a person applies to themselves, never an accusation to be made of somebody else.

One who interprets dreams. Ibn ‘Uthaymīn held the ability is not acquired by study, and that there are no fixed rules: the same image means different things for different people.

The two sūrahs of seeking refuge: al-Falaq and al-Nās. Revealed as protection, and the essential close of every ruqyah.

A light breath with a little moisture, blown into the hands or over water after reciting. Not spitting.

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The blue-and-white “evil eye” bead worn or hung as protection. A created object trusted to repel harm: it repels nothing, and trusting in it is not permitted.

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Undoing sihr. Permitted when done with Quran and du‘ā; forbidden when done with sihr or by going to a sorcerer.

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The jinn companion appointed to every person (Sūrah az-Zukhruf 43:36). The Prophet’s ﷺ own qarīn became Muslim, and he still never sought its help.

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“Binding”: sihr held to prevent a marriage or intimacy. A real category in the sources, and the most over-applied explanation in the field.

Someone who performs ruqyah for others. Needs no “gift”, only knowledge, the Quran and taqwā.

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A true dream: glad tidings from Allah, and the rarest of the three kinds the Prophet ﷺ named.

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Reciting the Quran and the Prophet’s ﷺ du‘ās over someone (or yourself), asking Allah for cure and protection.

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Ruqyah that stays within the Sharī‘ah: only Allah’s words and names, in understood language, with certainty that Allah alone cures.

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A sorcerer: the person who performs sihr. Never go to one, even to “undo” sihr.

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Full possession, the “epilepsy of the jinn”: the jinnī overtakes the body for a time, so the person speaks or acts without awareness and remembers little after.

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A devil: a rebellious jinnī (or human) that calls to evil. Plural: shayāṭīn.

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The lote tree. Its crushed leaves, stirred into recited water for bathing, are recommended by scholars including Ibn Bāz, especially in treating sihr.

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Magic / witchcraft: harm done by a sorcerer who seeks help from the shayāṭīn among the jinn. A major sin; real, but powerless without Allah’s permission.

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The way of the Prophet ﷺ: his sayings, actions and approvals.

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The interpretation of dreams, as a discipline. Permitted, and dependent on knowing the dreamer, which is why a reading from a stranger is worth little.

An amulet or written charm worn or hung for “protection”. Not from the Sunnah; the Prophet ﷺ warned against amulets.

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“A follower”: a regional folk name for something believed to attach to a person and block what they want. Not a term from the sources.

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The tested experience of practising raqis over time, accepted when it stays within the Quran and Sunnah.

Massage with recited oil, done by a practitioner who knows muscles and nerves; women treated by women, men by men.

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Mindfulness of Allah: living with His limits in view. It is what a raqi needs instead of any “gift”.

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Reliance on Allah: certainty in the heart that He alone brings benefit and harm, while the hands still take the means: medicine, ruqyah, precaution.

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“Mother of children”: a folk name for whatever is blamed for miscarriage, infant death and a baby who will not settle. Not established in the texts.

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Whispers: intrusive doubts and thoughts from shayṭān or the self. Ignored, they weaken; entertained, they grow.

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The ritual washing before prayer.

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The blessed well water of Makkah — “it is blessed; it is food that satisfies,” said the Prophet ﷺ. The best water to recite over, though you lose nothing by using ordinary water.

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A ceremony that appeases a possessing spirit with music, gifts and blood instead of expelling it. Forbidden: sacrifice belongs to Allah alone, and the ritual keeps people sick.

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