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It is incumbent upon the healer to be able to read and
understand the Holy Qur’an very well, says Sheikh Muhammad
Abdullah Al-Ayed. | | | |
There is increasing controversy over the use of the Holy Qur’an
to treat illness. The situation has become very confused, with
crooks, frauds and those looking to make a quick buck distorting
the work of an honest few. Today it is a painstaking process to
find the honest few, but Jeddah-based Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah
Al-Ayed is considered foremost among these healers in Saudi
Arabia and the Gulf. Over the past seven years he has treated
thousands of people who claim to have fallen ill because of
black magic, envy and cancer.
Sayidaty, a sister publication of Arab News, met Al-Ayed who
explained that he got into the field almost by accident. “It
happened that I memorized a number of Qur’anic verses that can
legitimately be used to treat certain illnesses. One day when I
was visiting a sick relative, I read some of the verses and he
recovered. The word spread and I decided to do the same for
other relatives and friends. In a short time, I found that I had
become a healer using the Holy Qur’an.”
Al-Ayed does say, however, that it is incumbent upon the healer
to be able to read and understand the Qur’an very well. He need
not be a scholar, an ascetic or even to have studied religion.
He must be an upright person with good intentions and be able to
distinguish between what is Sunnah (teachings of the Prophet,
peace be upon him) and what is bidaa (innovation) in order to
guard against encouraging devils, sorcerers and quacks. There
are three conditions which must be followed by the healer:
• No polytheism or anything that is forbidden (haram),Spiritual
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• Incantations must be in Arabic or another comprehensible
language,
• Belief that in themselves the incantations do not heal except
by God’s will; they must all use God’s words or His names and
attributes.
It is God’s mercy and blessing that he has made available a
treatment for every illness; one of the greatest of the
blessings is the Qur’an. While modern medicine does treat
obvious illnesses, it does not — and often cannot — treat
certain hidden illnesses that affect a person’s psyche such as
envy (the evil eye), sorcery and harm from the devil. There is
no contradiction between Islamic medicine and modern medicine;
they both heal.
Of Al-Ayed’s clients, 80 percent are women who, because they are
physically and spiritually weaker than men, are more liable to
become victims of sorcery. Many of the women are beautiful,
wealthy, educated and cultured but complain that they cannot
find husbands or they suffer from cancer, miscarriage and
infertility as a result of sorcery or envy. See theJinn
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“Many businessmen also come to me since they may also be exposed
to both sorcery and envy. Women sometimes come to me suffering
from pain without knowing the reason, and through the
incantations, I find that a jinn is inhabiting their body.”
Al-Ayed went on to say that by God’s grace, he has treated
thousands of cases. “Those who are victims of magic and have
attracted the evil eye are easier to treat except if the spell
was cast a long time ago; in that case, it is very difficult to
heal the sufferer.”
Al-Ayed has treated some famous and important people in the Gulf
and in the Arab world. He has also treated people of various
nationalities, all of whom responded to treatment. “An American,
who had been diagnosed with cancer, came to me to be healed and
while unable to understand the words of the Qur’an, he responded
to the reading and was healed. This is evidence that the Qur’an
can heal Muslims and non-Muslims alike. I would like to
emphasize that healing through the Qur’an is not an alternative
to modern medicine.”Jinn
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