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raqi (one who performs ruqya; exorcist)

Cited in 8 segments across 1 recording · 2017 · term/term:raqi

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20 Sep 2017Debunking Myths On: Jinns, Magic, the Evil Eye, and Superstitions Is there any sound hadith that a jinn possessed someone? There is no sound hadith of Shaytan possessing anyone; the Ibn Mas'ud report shows the jinn as a lowly creation fed on bones, not masters over humans. The guest's own investigations of 'haunted' houses and 'possessed' women found tricks and nothing else, and exorcism has become a big business. Lessonquoted view, not his positionguest speechShaykh Akram Nadwi (guest)jinnShaytanreport: ibn masud said we missed the prophet one night and he said the caller of the jinn came to me and i read the quran to them and bones are the food of your brothers machine6 min 34 s13:06on YouTube
20 Sep 2017Debunking Myths On: Jinns, Magic, the Evil Eye, and Superstitions Did Ibn Taymiyya believe in jinn possession, and does his view have proof? Ibn Taymiyya believed jinn possess people and treated them, but by his own rule of accepting nothing without proof from the Quran and Sunnah his claims fail: seeing something leave a patient does not prove it was a jinn. Levitating patients and beating the 'possessed' are tricks played on onlookers. Lessonquoted view, not his positionguest speechShaykh Akram Nadwi (guest)Ibn TaymiyyaIbn HazmFakhr al-Din al-Razi machine3 min 56 s30:59on YouTube
20 Sep 2017Debunking Myths On: Jinns, Magic, the Evil Eye, and Superstitions Why does the guest warn women never to go to exorcists? Exorcists exploit women: the guest recounts a girl coached to feign possession to hide her lost virginity, and says many women have been made pregnant by such men in India and on a large scale in Britain. Every illness has a cure that must be sought by proper effort. Lessonquoted view, not his positionguest speechShaykh Akram Nadwi (guest)raqi (one who performs ruqya; exorcist)ruqya (reading Quran over the afflicted)jinn machine3 min 56 s34:55on YouTube
20 Sep 2017Debunking Myths On: Jinns, Magic, the Evil Eye, and Superstitions Did the Prophet use ruqya or doctors when he was ill? When the Prophet fell ill Arab doctors treated him, which is how Aisha learnt medicine, so recited verses were never meant as a cure-all and the 'treatment by Quran' books misuse the book. The Quran's verses help against whispering, and one reads them for oneself without any raqi. Lessonquoted view, not his positionguest speechShaykh Akram Nadwi (guest)AishaAbu Bakrreport: aisha learned medicine from the arab doctors who treated the prophet when he fell ill machine5 min 18 s38:51on YouTube
20 Sep 2017Debunking Myths On: Jinns, Magic, the Evil Eye, and Superstitions Why do jinn seem to afflict only people who believe in them? Amulet writers, raqis and shrine touts run a business of lies, as the guest's stories of ambiguous amulets and promised sons show. Jinn never trouble him, atheists or non-Muslims, only those of weak belief, which he calls a lie against Allah and his Messenger that robs people of money and women of honour. Lessonquoted view, not his positionguest speechShaykh Akram Nadwi (guest)raqi (one who performs ruqya; exorcist)jinnta'wiz (amulet) machine5 min 14 s44:09on YouTube
20 Sep 2017Debunking Myths On: Jinns, Magic, the Evil Eye, and Superstitions Does the hadith that Shaytan flows in a person's blood prove possession? No: the Prophet said it to two men who saw him with his wife Safiyya, about human suspicion, and nobody present was possessed. The Quran itself appeals to reason and proof, so possession must be tested by reason, which someone reading the Quran without cultural baggage would never find in it. Lessonposition checkedal-Razi [?]aql (intellect)Quran 88:17-18 (do they not look at the camel, how it was created, and at the sky)report: the shaytan flows in the son of adam like blood said when two men saw the prophet with safiyya machine6 min 32 s1:09:02on YouTube
20 Sep 2017Debunking Myths On: Jinns, Magic, the Evil Eye, and Superstitions What harm does belief in jinn possession do? Belief in possession sustains beatings, sexual violence, exploitation and the extraction of money and even houses, and because it is dressed as Islam, Islam will be dismissed as mythology by the coming generation. Neurosis and psychosis are introduced as the frame for the psychological cases. Lessonposition checkedraqi (one who performs ruqya; exorcist)ruqya (reading Quran over the afflicted)jinn machine2 min 39 s1:24:46on YouTube
20 Sep 2017Debunking Myths On: Jinns, Magic, the Evil Eye, and Superstitions How does Mufti Abu Layth explain an exorcist who speaks as his own jinn? The exorcist's 'jinn', which declared its love for him, is read as displacement of guilt: a religious man projecting feelings he could not own onto a jinn, believing it sincerely without it being true. People must own their failed relationships instead of blaming jinn. Lessonposition checkedraqi (one who performs ruqya; exorcist)jinnthe 'god of the gaps' fallacy, here the 'jinn of the gaps' machine5 min 12 s1:51:02on YouTube