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Can the feeling of paralysis and inability to move or speak upon waking from sleep, accompanied by hearing sounds and their confusion, be a touch from the jinn or an effect of envy?

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These are satanic harassments and divine afflictions, caused by a person's heedlessness concerning the prophetic remembrances (adhkar) and protective incantations.

The first remedies are: 1. Maintaining the obligatory prayers (fard) at their prescribed early times. 2. Completing the supererogatory prayers (nawafil) before and after the obligatory prayers. 3. Performing abundant unrestricted supererogatory prayers. 4. Frequently remembering Allah Almighty in all situations, such as the remembrances of the two ends of the day and the remembrances before sleep, and sleeping in a state of ritual purity (wudu'). 5. Reciting Surat Al-Baqarah daily, and increasing its recitation if the harassments intensify.

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