Spiritual Practices (Amaliyat) — Permissible & Prohibited
- Does an amulet have any effect?
- Amulets and incantatory practices
- Writing an amulet with a rooster’s blood
- Writing an amulet with blood
- A donation to a madrasa in return for an amulet
- A method of becoming a practitioner of incantations
- There is danger in incantatory practices
- Sorcery, and obtaining charm threads, amulets and the like from non-Muslims
- Having a kafir perform incantation
- Having a non-Muslim perform incantation
- Having a non-Muslim treat a snakebite with incantation
- Having a non-Muslim treat spirit possession
- Women obtaining amulets from a practitioner of incantations and having soothsayers perform incantation
- Seeking help through the names of disbelievers in amulets
- Treatment with a polytheistic mantra
- Treatment by means of a mantra
- Mixing with non-mahrams for the sake of amulets and charm threads
- Reciting a litany with the hand on a barren woman’s private parts for the sake of offspring
- The harm of water that has been written on, and its cure
- A strange cure for piles
- Treatment through a jinn or fairy that has come upon someone
- The motion of the stars for treatment
- The ruling on sorcery
- The ruling on one who practises sorcery
- Learning sorcery in order to repel sorcery
- Repelling sorcery through non-Muslim practitioners
- A method of repelling sorcery
- The effect of sorcery and the ruling on the sorcerer
- Offering a pig as a sacrifice to drive away jinn
- Having a summoning of spirits performed
- Details concerning the practice of summoning spirits
- Repeated recitation (khatm) of Surah Ya-Sin for one’s needs
- Distributing sweets on completing the Surah Ya-Sin litany
- Permission (ijaza) to recite Hizb al-Bahr
- The ruling on turning back (reversing) a spell
- Writing “Ya Jibril” in amulet inscriptions
- A practice for abundance of provision (rizq)
- A remedy for ample livelihood
- A spiritual practice for helping the oppressed, and payment for an amulet
- A spiritual practice for a lost item
- A spiritual practice for a stolen item
- A spiritual practice for getting married
- Several important and useful questions about spiritual practices
- Details concerning casting lots (qurʿa)
- Drawing out the name of a thief
- Drawing out a thief’s name by means of a Qur’anic verse
- Finding out the thief from a Hindu priest
- A remedy for affliction: placing a finger on every line of the Qur’an
- Subjugating spirit-agents and jinn
- What is a hamzad?
- Subjugating a hamzad, the “unseen hand”, alchemy, etc.
- Destroying bandits by means of amulets
- Burning chillies against the evil eye
- Putting a black mark on children’s faces for protection from the evil eye
- Where are amulets for removing the effect of venom after a snakebite and the like?
- Treating a snakebite
- A mantra for snakebite
- Treating a snakebite by circling a neem tree
- Jafr is not a Sharʿi proof
- The litany “Qul huwa Allahu ahad, ya Jibra’il”
- The litany “Ya Jibra’il, bi-haqqi ya Wahhab”
- The litany “Nadi ʿAliyyan”
- A practice for unveiling spirits (kashf al-arwah) and the like
- The “unseen hand”
- A method for locating buried treasure
- Foretelling one’s fate
- Showing the land to an astrologer before building a house
- Does sorcery still exist today?
- A practice concerning the jinn
- Financial help from a jinn
- Burning jinn
- Can jinn and devils torment a human being?
- Jinn coming at shrines
- A jinn appearing in various forms
- Jinn and spiritual guides coming upon women
- A demon taking the form of Sulayman ﵇
- Can the tongue become mute through jinn possession?
- Conception resulting from intercourse by a jinn
- Telling the numbers for betting