19.✿Seeking Treatment from Witchcraft

Q)There are some people who claim that they apply spiritual healing to patients. When I visited one of them, he said to me: “Write your name, and your mother’s name, and come tomorrow.” When I came to him the next day, he said: “You are suffering from such and such sickness, and your cure is such and such.” One of them claimed that he used the Words of Allah for healing. What do you think of those people? And what is the ruling on consulting them?

A)It is obvious that he who applies this for healing deals with Jinn, and claims the knowledge of the unseen. It is not permissible to seek healing from nor to consult him. The Prophet (ﷺ) condemned this sort of people saying:

مَنْ أَتَى عَرَّافًا فَسَأَلَهُ عَنْ شَيْءٍ لَمْ تُقْبَلْ لَهُ صَلَاةُ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةٌ

(He who visits a fortuneteller and consults him, no prayer of his would be accepted for forty days.)[54]

It is authentically reported in many Hadiths that the Prophet (ﷺ) forbade visiting, consulting or believing soothsayers, fortunetellers or sorcerers. He  (ﷺ)also said:

مَنْ أَتَى كَاهِنًا فَصَدَّقَهُ بِمَا يَقُولُ فَقَدْ كَفَرَ بِمَا أُنْزِلَ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ ﷺ

(He who visits a seer and believes what he says, has certainly denied what was revealed to Muhammad(ﷺ))[55]

Whoever lays claims to the knowledge of the unseen through geomancy, [56] or through asking a patient what is his name, or his mother’s name is, or the names of his relatives, is a soothsayer, or a sorcerer, whom the Prophet (ﷺ) consulting and believing forbade consulting and believing.

                                                                                                                                         Ibn Baz

[54: Muslim no. 2230 and Ahmad 4:68, 5:380]

[55: Abu Dawud no. 3904, At-Tirmithi no. 135, Ibn Majah no. 639 and Ahmad 2:408, 476.]

[56: Geomancy, divination by means of a figure made by a handful of earth thrown down at random, or by figures of lines formed by a number of dots made at random. (The Random House Dictionary)]

REFERENCE:

BOOK: Fatawa Islamiyah[Islamic Verdicts] volume: 01

From Noble scholars along with The permanent committe & the decisions of the fiqh council.