Hadith 27

(The book) ‘Qurb Al Asnaad’ – From Abdullah Bin Al-Hassan Al Alawy, from his grandfather, ‘Ali son of Ja’far-asws, from his brother-asws Musa-asws, he said, ‘I asked him-asws about the patient undergoing heat treatment (burning of skin by fire) or by chanting (incantations). He‑asws said: ‘There is no problem when you chant (incantations) with what he knows’’. [28]
Clarification – In Al Qamous (lexicon), he said, ‘Al Ruqya’ (chanting/incantations) is seeking the Refuge (with Allah-azwj)’. His-asws words: ‘With what he knows’, it’s meaning is, from the Quran, and the supplications, and the Zikr, not with what he knows from the Syrian and Arabic and Indian names and their like, like the ‘Mantar’, well-known in India, when perhaps it would be Kufr and delirium. Or the meaning is, what he known in a report or Hadeeth referring to it, and the first is more apparent and more encompassing that there should not be any blowing/puffing with it when it was in a knot, and the complete word regarding it is in the book of supplications. He said in ‘Al Nihaya’, ‘The mentioned of Al Qurya has been repeated in the Hadeeth, and the Ruqya is seeking the Refuge the one with the affliction has been afflicted with, like the fever and epilepsy and other than that from the afflictions. And there has come in the Ahadeeth, it’s permission and in some of these, the prohibition from it. From the permission are his-saww words: ‘Perform Ruqya for her, for there is the evil eye with her! ’ – i. e. seek for her someone who can perform Ruqya for her. And from the prohibitions are his-saww words: ‘Neither should you perform Ruqya nor be writing (it)! ’
And the Ahadeeth regarding the two divisions are many, and an aspect of gathering between the two is that the Ruqya is dislike from it, whatever was in other than the Arabic language and with other than the Names of Allah-azwj the Exalted, and His-azwj Attributes, and His-azwj Speech in His-azwj Revealed Book. And if one believes that the Ruqya is beneficial, he would rely upon it, and it is what is intended by His-azwj Words what the one performing Ruqya relies, and it is not disliked in different to that, like the amulet with the Quran and Names of Allah-azwj the Exalted, and the reported Ruqya (chants), and for that he-saww said for the one who performs Ruqya with the Quran and takes a recompense (money) upon it: ‘The recompense of the one who takes it by performing Ruqya is invalid, so he has taken a right by performing Ruqya’. And like his-saww words in a Hadeeth of Jabir, he-saww said: ‘Present it (chants) to me-saww’. So we presented it. He-saww said: ‘There is no problem with these. But rather, these are covenants’’. It is as if he-saww feared that something might fall into it from what Shirk they had been uttering with and believing in during the pre-Islamic period, and