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How authentic is your website, and why is the text of the scorpion ruqyah by Ibn Salah published when it may contain polytheistic words?

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What was published on the website regarding the impermissibility of ruqya (exorcism/spiritual healing) in languages other than Arabic is taken from the book "Ghida' al-Albab" by al-Saffarini, who in turn quoted from "Hayat al-Hayawan al-Kubra" by al-Dumairi al-Shafi'i. Al-Dumairi al-Shafi'i denied the permissibility of ruqya in non-Arabic languages for fear of it containing kufr (disbelief), basing his view on the Hadith in Muslim which permits ruqya as long as it does not contain shirk (polytheism). This aligns with the fatwas (religious edicts) of Sheikh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, who rejected ruqya using names of unknown meaning, and the words of al-Shawkani in "Nayl al-Awtar," who affirmed the permissibility of understandable ruqya and not other types, out of fear that it might contain shirk.

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