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3530. It was narrated that Zainab said: "There was an old woman who used to enter upon us and perform Ruqyah from erysipelas: Contagious disease which causes fever and leaves a red coloration of the skin. We had a bed with long legs, and when 'Abdullāh entered he would clear this throat and make noise. He entered one day and when she heard his voice she veiled herself from him. He came and sat beside me, and touched me, and he found a string. He said: 'What is this?' I said: 'An amulet against erysipelas.' He pulled it, broke it and threw it away, and said: 'The family of 'Abdullāh has no need of polytheism.' I heard the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ say: "Ruqyah (i.e., which consist of the names of idols and devils etc.), amulets and Tiwalah (charms) are polytheism.""
"I said: 'I went out one day and so-and-so looked at me, and my eye began to water on the side nearest him. When I recited Ruqyah for it, it stopped, but if I did not recite Ruqyah it watered again.' He said: 'That is Satan, if you obey him he leaves you alone but if you disobey him he pokes you with his finger in your eye. But if you do what the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ used to do, that will be better for you and more
effective in healing. Sprinkle water in your eye and say: Adhhibil-bâs Rabban-nâs, washfi Antash-Shâfi, lâ shifâ'a illa shifâ'uka, shifâ'an lâ yughâdiru saqaman (Take away the pain, O Lord of mankind, and grant healing, for You are the Healer, and there is no healing but Your healing that leaves no trace of sickness).” (Da'if)
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Reciting the Qur'ân or prophetic narrations over a patient as Ruqyah is allowed. Any incantation that contains polytheism is forbidden.
A man, whenever he enters, even in his own house, should make a noise or should cough, or should greet, so that any marriageable woman, if she is there for any reason, should cover herself.
Aged women also should cover themselves. However, very aged women who have lost their physical attraction and did not use makeup to adorn themselves, such women may be excused from some of their Hijab. (Surat An-Nur: 60)
Using incantation on a thread and hanging it in on the a neck or tying it on the arm is forbidden.
Throwing a thread or amulet if it were on the neck, is not considered for humiliating a sacred matter, rather it is an act of showing displeasure for a wrong act.
