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In short
- 01Having some of these symptoms does not mean a person is afflicted by the eye or ḥasad.
- 02Medical first, alongside ruqyah: see a doctor for anything on this list.
- 03What raqis weigh is the pattern — reactions that intensify around the Quran, and complaints that resist medical explanation after proper investigation.
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 ḥasad. These are 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 the things doctors exist to investigate. See a doctor first for anything on this list. Ruqyah runs alongside medical care, not instead of it.
The list is published because, as Ibn al-Qayyim writes in Badā’i‘ al-Fawā’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:
Weighed together, never any one of them alone.
- BodyRepeated yawning without sleepiness
- Around the QuranFrequent belching without having eaten, increasing when the Quran is recited
- BodyItching
- BodyFrequent spitting
- BodyThe appearance of pimples and boils
- BodyMarks appearing on the body in the shape of an eye
- BodyHeat or cold in the body without cause
- BodyTightness in the chest
- MindLethargy, listlessness and insomnia
- MindWaswasa (intrusive whispering thoughts)
- BodyBloating or swelling of the body despite eating little
- Beyond medicineSome cases of cancer: the source’s claim; on this site, any such concern means a doctor first, always
- MindSome psychological states, loss of sanity, delusion, fear: likewise, psychiatric and neurological care first
- Around the QuranForgetfulness and drowsiness that descends specifically when studying, reciting Quran, going to school or sitting exams; or headache at those times
- BodyNasal and sinus allergy
- BodyFrequent sneezing without a cold, especially connected to the matters in which the person was struck
- BodyHair loss
- BodyDarkness under the eyes and pallor of the face without exhaustion
- BodyConstant headache
- BodyBruise-like patches under the skin, brown or blue, especially on the thighs or arms, with no remembered injury
- Beyond medicinePain at the pit of the stomach that doctors could not explain
- BodyIrritable bowel problems
- BodySudden skin abrasion or rash in the armpits and private area
- MindWanting to leave the house and hating to stay in it
- MindA feeling of death and despair
- Beyond medicineSevere illnesses that keep moving around the body, which medicine cannot pin down: tests come back clear while the pain is real
- Beyond medicineA genuine physical illness that fails to respond to the best medication even when doses are increased
- In the houseTiny ants appearing suddenly in the house in striking numbers, with no openings they could have come from
- In the houseExcessive crying in children
the items raqis weight most see a doctor first
Anything here that a doctor could investigate goes to a doctor first.
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 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:
Practitioner lore, handed down among raqis — not revealed text, and not a diagnosis.
- CreaturesCats
- CreaturesInsects
- CreaturesScorpions
- CreaturesDogs
- Eyes and peopleJinn staring at the dreamer
- CreaturesGeckos
- CreaturesAnts
- Eyes and peopleSeeing an eye in the dream, or veiled women
- Eyes and peopleSeeing known people — acquaintances or relatives — staring with hateful looks, or hearing what they say about the dreamer, their eyes appearing hideous
- Places and wordsGraves and the dead
- Places and wordsHearing in the dream that “it is the eye”
- Eyes and peopleSeeing the very person one suspects of envy
- Places and wordsSeeing verses about the eye or ḥasad, or both
the items raqis weight most
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 ḥasad in our Plans section.
Medical first, alongside ruqyah — nothing here replaces a doctor’s care.
Sources
- Ibn al-Qayyim, Badā'i' al-Fawā'id
- Classical and practitioner sources — see Methodology → Our sources
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