Offering a pig as a sacrifice to drive away jinn

Question

Question: According to the belief of the common people, Hinda is afflicted by possession; from time to time she has fits (lit. “she plays”). Hinda and her family, after showing her to Muslim practitioners of incantations, showed her to a Hindu folk exorcist. He treated her according to his own method and creed, but Hinda did not get well. While going to and from the exorcist’s house, Hinda saw that for other patients of this kind the Hindu exorcist offers a pig as a sacrifice, and they are getting well.

Answer

Offering the sacrifice was a grave error. The buying and selling of pigs is also void (batil) and a sin. It is necessary for these people to repent and seek forgiveness. In al-Bahr, a vow (nadhr) in the name of other than Allah is written to be shirk; therefore caution too demands that they also renew their iman by reciting the kalima, and confess their error with remorse;…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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