A Response, From A Malaysian Raqi,To Those Who Question Avoiding Those 'Healers' Who Ask For The Name of Our Mother

"Assalamu'alaikom,

I think we need to nip the bud; as I am getting forwarded emails from different sources.So for those who have references, please provide exact reference here.

The raging questions:

1) In which hadith, which narration does it say that the Prophet wants make dua for a person and he ASK for the patient's name and also his/her MOTHER's name

2) In which fatwa, does it say that it mandatory for a doa to ASK or HAVE the patient's MOTHER's name ?


In my limited knowledge, and this is of course my personal opinion, after few years of research. Those asking for mother's name are seeking the assistance of jinns. So either they are

H1) magicians or

H2) healers seeking assistance from jinns, or

H3) students of H1 or H2 who follows faithfully what their teachers taught them.

In all instances, making magic/sihir is not allowed (or haram); and seeking jinns assistance is not allowed (please refer Surah al-Jinn)

To my best of knowledge, ALLAH is Most Knowing, and therefore does not need the photograph, address, passport number or the names of the patient's parents. In most situation, the patient is already under the nose of the raaqi. And the barakah is in the throat of the person who has recited Quran. And if we refer to many hadiths, there was no mention of the Companions (AS) or the Prophet (SAW) ASKing for the patient's name.


For those who are unable to make doa ruqyah without full personal details of the patient, I believe it is high time you learnt more knowledge about ALLAH.


The above statement may cause discomfort to some people, especially maulanas and amils and other "Islamic healers." But since we are Muslims, we should fall back on Quran and hadith, and of course fatwa from the majority of scholars (jumhur ulama)

Thank you for reading this far."


Bilal Philips' phd thesis was on the subject of "The Exorcist Tradition In Islam" and he conducted a large number of interviews with exorcists from different parts of the Muslims world (some of whom used orthodox methods, others didn't).One of the interviewees, from Egypt, mentioned that he happened to be reading a book entitled Zaad al-Ma'aad by Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah at a time when his son had fallen ill with what psycahiarists, neurologists psychologists and various other speacialists had been unsucessful in treating. Ibn-Al-Qayyim's book contains a description of possession which he said matched those of his son and by following the advice contained therein, he was, by Allah's leave, able to cure his son. Ibn Taymiyyah (who, as you know,was Ibn Qayyim's teacher) also wrote extensively on the subject of jinn possession/affliction.