Signsandsymptomsoftheevileye—whatraqislookfor

Before anything else: symptoms are not a diagnosis

This list needs two frames around it, and the source itself supplies the first one. It states plainly: having some of these symptoms does not mean a person is afflicted by the eye or hasad. These are simply the signs an experienced raqi has seen recur across a great many cases, and which he weighs together when questioning a patient — never a checklist for self-diagnosis.

The second frame is this site's standing rule: medical first, alongside ruqyah. Many symptoms below — persistent headaches, unexplained bruising, digestive problems, skin changes, low mood, and above all anything the source calls "cancer" or "psychiatric states" — are exactly the things doctors exist to investigate. See a doctor first for anything on this list. Ruqyah runs alongside medical care, not instead of it.

Why publish such a list at all? Because, as Ibn al-Qayyim writes in Bada'i' al-Fawa'id (2/367): "This is a knowledge known only to the discerning among people; those veiled from it deny it, and none knows its effect and its connection to the natural order except one who has some taste of it." Experienced raqis recognise patterns; this page records the patterns they report.

Signs raqis report in the waking state

The source lists, from the accumulated experience of many cases:

• Repeated yawning without sleepiness
• Frequent belching without having eaten — increasing when the Quran is recited
• Itching
• Frequent spitting
• The appearance of pimples and boils
• Marks appearing on the body in the shape of an eye
• Heat or cold in the body without cause
• Tightness in the chest
• Lethargy, listlessness and insomnia
• Waswasa (intrusive whispering thoughts)
• Bloating or swelling of the body despite eating little
• Some cases of cancer — the source's claim; on this site, any such concern means a doctor first, always
• Some psychological states: loss of sanity, delusion, fear — likewise: psychiatric and neurological care first
• Forgetfulness and drowsiness that descends specifically when studying, reciting Quran, going to school or sitting exams; or headache at those times
• Nasal and sinus allergy
• Frequent sneezing without a cold, especially connected to the matters in which the person was struck
• Hair loss
• Darkness under the eyes and pallor of the face without exhaustion
• Constant headache
• Bruise-like patches under the skin, brown or blue, especially on the thighs or arms, with no remembered injury
• Pain at the pit of the stomach that doctors could not explain
• Irritable bowel problems
• Sudden skin abrasion or rash in the armpits and private area
• Wanting to leave the house and hating to stay in it
• A feeling of death and despair
• Severe illnesses that keep moving around the body, which medicine cannot pin down — tests come back clear while the pain is real
• A genuine physical illness that fails to respond to the best medication even when doses are increased
• Tiny ants appearing suddenly in the house in striking numbers, with no openings they could have come from
• Excessive crying in children

Notice the thread that runs through the distinctive items: reactions that intensify around the Quran, and complaints that resist medical explanation after proper investigation. That combination — not any single symptom — is what raqis actually weigh.

Signs raqis report from dreams

The source presents this second list as what has been handed down among raqis and from those who came before — practitioner lore, not revealed text:

• Cats
• Insects
• Scorpions
• Dogs
• Jinn staring at the dreamer
• Geckos
• Ants
• Seeing an eye in the dream, or veiled women
• Seeing known people — acquaintances or relatives — staring with hateful looks, or hearing what they say about the dreamer, their eyes appearing hideous
• Graves and the dead
• Hearing in the dream that "it is the eye"
• Seeing the very person one suspects of envy
• Seeing verses about the eye or hasad, or both

If several of these signs describe you, do not panic and do not start a hunt for a culprit. Get the medical side checked properly, and take up the prescribed means: the daily adhkār, self-ruqyah, and — if you want a structured approach — the daily treatment programme for the eye and hasad in our Plans section.