Howstrongcansihrbe,andwhatcanitaffect?

A word before you read. This page presents the practitioner account of how far sihr can reach, including the view that it can cause or transmit serious physical disease. Whatever you suspect spiritually, any physical symptom — bleeding, pain, infertility, or any illness — must be assessed by a doctor first. Ruqyah works alongside medical care, never instead of it.

The power of sihr

When most people hear the word sihr, they think of the familiar kinds: sihr that separates a married couple, sihr that “ties” a husband from his wife, love-sihr, or sihr worked to win a job or a contract. Fewer people are willing to believe how far it can go.

The source holds that sihr, when Allah permits it, has a power many refuse to credit: sorcerers kill by it — the jinn assigned to the sihr may strangle its victim; they work sihr of madness, so the bewitched person loses his mind; and — in the source’s words — they can afflict the victim, by Allah’s permission, with the severest diseases, “even cancer, AIDS and herpes,” transferring viruses into bodies. This is the source’s and the classical raqis’ position, stated as they state it; it is not a medical claim your doctor would recognise, which is exactly why medical assessment must always come first.

Graver than all of this, the source writes, is sihr of kufr — sihr aimed at a person’s faith itself. And the strength of any sihr follows the strength of the sorcerer, the depth of his disbelief, and the strength of his devils.

The fields in which sorcerers claim to operate are, it says, beyond counting — whoever looks into the indexes of their books finds workings even for holding back rain and for binding insects.

The areas sihr is said to affect

By Allah’s permission, sihr is held to affect — among much else:

1. Separating spouses through hatred and aversion.
2. “Tying” a husband from his wife, or a wife from her husband.
3. Causing miscarriage, “binding” wombs, and disabling the ovaries.
4. Causing bleeding in a woman — or the reverse, stopping her monthly cycle.
5. Infertility, through weakening sperm.
6. Love-sihr: enslaving a husband to his wife “like a ring on her finger,” or the reverse — and likewise between people who are not married.
7. Pushing people into zina and indecency, whether through engineered infatuation or to take revenge and ruin a reputation.
8. Breaking up and destroying a family.
9. Tormenting the victim in every way: insomnia, loss of appetite, waswasa, absent-mindedness, tightness of the chest and grief, pains through the body, and more.
10. Killing, by various routes: setting the jinn on the victim directly, or possessing him and driving him to take his own life, or through an accident or a fire.
11. Theft and extortion: robbing houses by sihr, and robbing the wealthy by “blinding” them so they hand over their money without their own will.
12. Trade: drawing customers to the sorcerer’s clients so they profit, and bewitching competitors so people turn away from them and their business collapses — or accidents and fires strike it.
13. Health: every kind of illness, the source says, “even diseases not yet known.”
14. Abducting people and making them vanish, even for years.
15. Illusion and deception of the eyes, as happened to Musa (peace be upon him).
16. Nature: killing and spoiling crops, holding rain back from particular farms, sinking the water of wells.
17. Character: changing a person’s habits, manners and dealings.
18. Animals — harming them or subjugating them — down to insects.
19. Inanimate things of every kind, by altering or ruining them.

This list is best read as an inventory of what people bring to a raqi and what the sorcerers themselves boast of — not as a diagnosis sheet. Most of these harms have ordinary explanations far more often than not. If something on this list is happening to you, see the appropriate professional first — a doctor for the body, and where relevant a counsellor for the marriage — and treat ruqyah and the adhkār as your shield alongside that care, by Allah’s permission.