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Studies,primersandanswers.

The long reads of the Library, in one place: studies of the classical material, primers for someone starting out, short readings for the hard days, and real questions answered.

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How the jinn live: their kinds, powers, homes and food

This is the detail behind the primer on who the jinn are: what the Sunnah says about their kinds, their ability to change shape, their strength, where they live, and what they eat.

Reader questions: “Is this ‘ayn, sihr — or something else?”

Five real letters from 2016 — low mood, a stuck family, self-envy, weeping at al-Mā’idah, a long unravelling — with the raqi’s answers and our medical notes.

Sheikh Khālid bin Ibrāhīm al-Ḥibshī

Who Sheikh Khālid al-Ḥibshī is: a Saudi scholar and raqi from Jeddah, three decades in ruqyah, and why his copyright-free work anchors this library.

The eight kinds of sihr — Ibn Kathir, after al-Razi

A classical text translated for the library: Ibn Kathir’s discussion of the kinds of sihr from his tafsir of al-Baqarah 2:102, reproducing the eight-fold classification of Abu ‘Abdillah al-Razi with Ibn Kathir’s own comments.

What healing means — degrees of shifā’, and why “not cured yet” is often wrong

Healing comes in degrees — 100 per cent is not the only cure. Why “not healed yet” is often wrong, and why the deepest healing is the heart’s return to Allah.

Reader questions: voices, possession, and what happens at death

Reader letters on a voice heard since childhood, whether possession ends at death, and a wife’s frightening episodes — with the answers given and our medical notes.

Reader questions: long illness, hospitals, and where ruqyah fits

Reader letters about serious diagnosed disease — kidney failure, multiple sclerosis — where ruqyah belongs alongside the hospital, never instead of it.

Reader questions: family strain, and whether helping the afflicted can harm you

Two reader letters: a painful family triangle answered with fiqh and counsel, and whether advising an afflicted sister can rebound on the adviser.

Do not despair when the answer to your du‘ā is slow

Ibn al-Jawzī on the delayed answer: why the withholding may be the kinder gift, and what to do while you wait at the door.

Happiness rests on three things: gratitude, patience, repentance

Ibn al-Qayyim’s celebrated passage from al-Wābil al-Sayyib: the servant’s happiness rests on gratitude when given, patience when tried, and repentance when he sins.

Why Allah lets His enemies afflict His friends

Ibn al-Qayyim’s answer from Shifā’ al-‘Alīl: the wisdoms in Allah giving His enemies rein over His friends, and why taklīf itself is a mercy.

Ten ways to find patience in a trial

Ten things Ibn al-Qayyim says to hold before the eyes in a trial, from seeing its reward to seeing how Allah raises His servant through it.

The same trial is mercy for one and loss for another — the difference is where it turns your heart

Ibn al-Qayyim’s rule: the same trial is mercy for the one it returns to Allah, and loss for the one it drives further away.

Three things that make patience easier

Ibn al-Qayyim’s three helps to patience: keep the reward in view, await the breeze of relief, and shrink the affliction by counting blessings.

Why hardship comes first and ease after

Ibn al-Qayyim, in Badā’i‘ al-Fawā’id, on why commands and trials press hard at first and lighten after, and what the wise person does at the start of a trial.

Stay at the niche of repentance

Ibn al-Jawzī’s address to the one whose trial has outlasted his repentance: recompense has its season, so stay at the prayer-niche of turning back.

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