Details concerning the practice of summoning spirits

Question

Question: (1) What is the summoning of spirits? What is called the summoning of spirits? And how many kinds of spirit summoning are there? (2) What benefit and what harm come from the summoning of spirits? Does it have any basis in the Shari‘a? (3) What is the ruling on seeking treatment through the summoning of spirits, and on conversing, and arranging conversations, with the spirits of the living and the dead? (4)

Answer

The soul has five faculties: the rational (‘aqila), the irascible (ghadabaniyya), the appetitive (shahwaniyya), the imaginative (khayaliyya) and the estimative (wahima). A soul in which the rational prevails and the remaining faculties are so subdued and weakened that they do not manifest at all is called an angelic soul (ruh malaki).

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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