Readerquestions:"Isthis'ayn,sihr—orsomethingelse?"

About this page: these are real questions sent in 2016, with the answers given (adapted from an experienced raqi's consultations), lightly summarised. The replies are typically short prescriptions built around a consistent method: listen to specific ruqyah recordings through the day (you will find them free in our Library), read al-Baqarah, keep the obligations of the religion, and report back. One honest note before you read: many symptoms in these letters — low mood, fatigue, pain, erectile difficulty — are also symptoms of treatable medical conditions. See a doctor first; ruqyah runs alongside medicine, never instead of it.

"I suffer low mood, heaviness, anger, pains and bad dreams — what is this?"

A questioner listed his state: gloom, lethargy and deep sadness; pressure in the head and tingling in the body when he hears the Quran; anger for no reason, and outbursts at his mother that he regrets; withdrawal and no desire to talk; pains in the head, legs and shoulders; dreams of black dogs; heavy difficulty rising in the morning; dry lips, poor appetite, pain in the eyes and lower back; and erectile difficulty.

The answer given: commit first to the commands of the Shari'ah, then listen to the ruqyah verses; if Allah wills you will improve — and write back with the results.

Our note: reacting to Quran recitation (tightness, tingling) is one of the signs raqis look for — but this list also reads like depression, which is medically treatable. Please take a list like this to a doctor as well.

"Our whole family is stuck — quarrels every day, jobs fall through, suitors vanish. What is happening to us?"

A young woman from a modest, well-educated family described a household in constant conflict, morning and night; brothers and sisters whose every job application collapses at the last step; suitors for her and her sister who come once and never call again; and a father who refuses to move house. "I swear the problems are every single day. My spirit is worn out."

The answer given: these are symptoms of 'ayn and hasad. Listen to the ruqyah for 'ayn and hasad and the ruqyah for sihr, read Sūrat al-Baqarah in the house, and make du'ā — including du'ā for a righteous husband. May Allah give you success.

Our note: hardship, unemployment and family friction also have ordinary causes, and attributing every misfortune to 'ayn can itself become a trap. Take the adhkār and al-Baqarah — they only benefit — and keep working the worldly means too.

"I feel I envy everything — even myself. Is that possible?"

The answer given: yes. A person can strike himself with the 'ayn, and can also be envied by the jinn. So increase the protective adhkār, listen to the ruqyah for 'ayn and hasad and to al-Falaq and al-Nās; if you notice a reaction, repeat the listening, recite, and bathe.

Our note: this is why the Sunnah teaches saying "mā shā' Allāh, bārak Allāh" over what pleases you — including your own blessings. See our evil-eye section for the full protection routine.

"Reading Sūrat al-Mā'idah I wept from verse 114 to the end — why those verses?"

A woman reading al-Mā'idah found herself overcome with weeping from verse 114 (the du'ā of 'Īsā for a table from heaven) to the end of the surah, and asked what the passage has to do with her condition.

The answer given: these verses fall within the verses used against 'ayn and hasad. Keep reciting them, or make du'ā that Allah lift what has struck you in your provision.

Our note: strong emotion at a passage is treated by raqis as a pointer worth following, not as a diagnosis by itself.

"I was devout, then fell into compulsive sin, scattered study, yawning at the Mu'awwidhatayn — is this 'ayn, or a 'lover' jinn?"

A young man who had memorised the Quran and studied in a religious institution described a long unravelling: compulsive habits he could not break despite regret; prayers slipping; inability to sit with a book more than half an hour, costing him his exam results; improper desire that appears only when he is alone; heavy grief and isolation after his mother's death; repeated yawning specifically at al-Falaq and al-Nās, whether after prayer or before sleep; passing wind during the morning and evening adhkār; congregational prayer suddenly heavy; increasingly fast, slurred speech that friends notice; and worrying results from a fertility test. "I want to know what has happened to me."

The answer given: these are symptoms of the "lover" mass and of 'ayn. You must hold fast to the commands of the Shari'ah — there is no way out without steadfastness, or this filthy thing will keep wearing your life down. Listen to the verses condemning indecency, the 'ayn-and-hasad and sihr ruqyahs, and the "burning" verses (the recordings recited against the jinn and sihr), follow the programme for this condition, and be patient.

Our note, and it matters here: speech changes, fertility results and anatomical changes are medical matters — a doctor should see each of them. And the concept of the 'āshiq ("lover") jinn is a practitioner's diagnostic category from practice; hold to what is certain: guarding the prayers, the adhkār, and lawful treatment for anything a doctor can name.

Where the answers point

Notice the pattern across all five answers: no theatrics, no amulets, no fees — recitation, recordings, al-Baqarah, adhkār, istighfār, and firm commitment to the religion, with results reviewed over time. That is the method our whole self-ruqyah section teaches. One item needs honesty: the answers sometimes prescribe bathing with "the Rumi mixture", a herbalist's bathing blend based on ground sidr (lote-tree leaf) whose exact recipe was never published. Bathing with water in which sidr has been soaked, with ruqyah verses recited over it, is the well-known form of this practice.