What is the treatment for an 18-year-old sister who is suffering from sorcery, displaying all its symptoms, including satanic whispers and doubts about the Divine Self, seeing snakes in dreams, and various physical symptoms, with these symptoms coinciding at the same time of year?
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We advise the questioner to continue with the legal , especially Al-Baqarah, for it expels Satan and prevents the effect of magic, by Allah's will. The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Recite Surah Al-Baqarah, for taking it is a blessing, abandoning it is a regret, and the sorcerers cannot confront it." She should also make abundant supplication and not be hasty, for supplication is answered as long as one does not supplicate for a sin or cutting off family ties, and as long as one does not hasten by saying: "I supplicated, but I was not answered."
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