Magic and the Evil Eye
385 questions
Is forgetting the mention of the evil eye in the Qur’an, and then remembering a verse about it in Surat Yusuf, considered disbelief?
Are the successive health and financial problems that the questioner and his wife are experiencing, and the wife's seeing incomprehensible talismans on the ceiling of the room, considered evidence of magic or the evil eye?
What is the interpretation of the questioner's feeling of perpetual sadness, successive calamities, the presence of insects in her house, her divorce, her illness, her inability to leave the house, and what she believes to be envy, especially since she has been suffering from these problems since she bought her current home?
Is the son's failure to visit his father, on the pretext of not angering the mother who describes the father as bad and distant from them, considered disobedience to the father?
Is there a connection between marital problems and the spouses reaching a dead end, and their committing the sin of a man having anal intercourse with his wife? And what is the way to deal with a wife whose treatment of her husband has changed and who denies the facts?
Is it permissible for a Raqi (exorcist) to diagnose cases of Jinn possession merely by looking at the patient’s eye—even through a picture—what is the ruling on his action, and is he considered a sorcerer or not, if he follows the Sunnah in everything, claims to have learned the method from his Sheikh, and does not seek the help of Jinn?
Does one afflicted by the evil eye recover with only adhkar (remembrance of God) if he begins reciting it after being afflicted?
Should a sister ask her sister to return books containing bad things before she returns from her trip, or should she read the books and avoid what is bad in them, and what should she do if the store does not accept their return?
Is it possible that the absence of penetration since marriage, followed by divorce, and the loss of desire and erection, could be due to magic (sihr) or a binding spell (rabt), and is it possible to restore the natural state?
Is there a way to help a fiancé who is suffering from lethargy, fatigue, strange behaviors, and feels the presence of another person with him, and whose exhaustion increases with ruqyah (Islamic exorcism), other than using water over which Quranic verses have been recited and supplication?
Do the fiancée and fiancé feel a sense of unease toward each other a month after the engagement?
What is the ruling on reading illustrated stories on the phone that contain forbidden elements, such as pictures that cannot be removed except by viewing them? And is it permissible to remove the forbidden words and replace them with other words?
Can an affliction of the evil eye transform into an organic disease, as happened with the questioner's son who developed a heart condition after his wife gave birth, and as one person said, "Every time you go on holiday, your wife gives birth upon your return"?
Is what a person experiences of stagnation after marriage, which includes successive financial and professional setbacks, considered envy or harmful magic, or is it a result of stopping helping one's parents?
What is the ruling regarding someone who said, "If I do not do this thing, I will strike this person with my eye," and then did not do that thing? Will their eye [evil eye] afflict that person, whether they intended this condition or not? And does the unwillingness to afflict the person with the evil eye, despite having a fleeting thought of it, affect the validity of repentance?
What are the reasons for repeated difficulty in engagement despite having good morals, and what is the solution to this problem?
Is it permissible to deal with a person who claims knowledge of the People of the Book to nullify magic, after he requested money and incense, and what is the ruling on this act in Islam?
Why do worries and problems increase, sustenance cease, and conditions worsen, the more I draw closer to Allah, strive to supplicate and abandon sins, while adhering to acts of worship and charity, and performing Hajj, Umrah, and Ruqyah Shar'iyyah? Is this a trial or a punishment, and what are the possible solutions?
Is what the Second Caliph said — that the Prophet's (peace be upon him) being bewitched was an act of man and not an act of God, and that God decreed that the Prophet be bewitched, and that this attributes evil to God — correct?
What is the required course of action when a wife sees strangers in her sleep who mockingly smile at her when she recites adhkar (remembrances) and Ayatul-Kursi (the Verse of the Throne), in addition to observing abnormal changes in her behavior and health, her feeling of fatigue, exhaustion, and distress, her inability to complete reading Surah Al-Baqarah (The Cow), the recurrence of false pregnancy symptoms, and her unintentionally harsh responses?
How can one deal with parents' unprovoked hatred and harshness, and their physical and verbal abuse, and what are the ways to nullify this sudden change if it is the result of a magic of separation, to restore family relations to their natural state?
What is the reason for things being afflicted by my evil eye, whether I like them or not, despite my diligence in saying: "Masha'Allah, Tabarakallah, La Ilaha Illallah, Allahu Akbar"? Are there any additional ذكر (remembrances) or actions that would prevent things from being afflicted by my evil eye?
Is what my friend does, calculating letters and numbers to know a person's fortune and to protect against the evil eye, part of the religion, and is it related to horoscopes?
What are the authentic supplications (du'as) to be recited during calamities and tribulations, such as wars and the aggression of disbelievers against Muslim lands?