Do a person's suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder, along with hair loss and poor eyesight, indicate affliction by the evil eye? And does legitimate ruqyah (exorcism) bar the one afflicted by the evil eye from entering Paradise without reckoning?

First: Hair loss and poor eyesight can have two causes: organic or psychological. Both necessitate consulting specialized doctors. It could also be due to the evil eye, but this cannot be confirmed until other causes are ruled out. The afflicted person should avoid obsessions and resort to ruqyah (Islamic exorcism) and supplications.

Second: If a person performs ruqyah on another without being asked, this is commendable, not disliked. However, if it is at the request of the patient, it is disliked for the one seeking ruqyah because it contradicts the perfection of reliance on Allah and deprives him of entering Paradise with the seventy thousand without reckoning. Nevertheless, not preventing the ruqyah practitioner from performing ruqyah does not negate perfection.

Third: Whoever adheres to the religion of Allah, then needs to seek ruqyah due to the absence of other medication, is permitted to do so. It is hoped that this will not prevent him from being among the seventy thousand who enter Paradise without reckoning, as seeking ruqyah out of necessity does not prevent that.