# Did the Prophet use ruqya or doctors when he was ill?

*What the Prophet did when ill: Arab doctors, not Fatiha as a cure-all; the misuse of the Quran as medicine*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7z8yu8kr83y/s/8/
- Date: 2017-09-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn Possessions: Myth and Reality in Islam by Sh. Akram Nadwi & Mufti Abu Layth (38:51–44:09)
- Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z8yu8Kr83Y&t=2331s
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**Topics:** Jinn possession; Medical questions; Guest conversations

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** 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.

## Longer summary

The guest asks what the Prophet did when he fell ill, and answers with the report that Aisha, asked how she knew so much medicine when her other knowledge came from the Prophet and her father Abu Bakr, said the Arab doctors who came to treat the Prophet prescribed remedies which she prepared, and so she learnt. If reciting certain words cured illness, he argues, who knew those words better than the Prophet, and why would he and the companions need doctors, and why did Muslims develop medical science? He rejects the reading of the hadith that al-Fatiha is a cure for every illness in that sense, and criticises books of 'treatment by the Quran' prescribing verses for headaches and stomach pains, noting that their authors go to doctors when ill; the Quran was sent to guide people, who are then meant to develop medicine themselves, and this misuse disrespects the book. He cites the Prophet's words that whoever introduces into our religion what is not from it is rejected, allows that the companion who recited al-Fatiha over an afflicted tribesman was cured by Allah's will, and asks why, if al-Fatiha cures, anyone needs a raqi rather than reciting it themselves. Those who invent such practices imply the religion was incomplete when Allah said he had completed it, a great lie against Allah and his Messenger. He concludes that the Quran's verses do help against the whispering of Shaytan, but that one reads them for oneself, understanding their meaning, and needs nobody called a raqi to read for one.

## Sources and names cited

- Shaykh Akram Nadwi (guest)
- Aisha
- Abu Bakr
- report: aisha learned medicine from the arab doctors who treated the prophet when he fell ill
- Surah al-Fatiha: https://quran.com/1
- report: a companion recited al-fatiha over an afflicted tribesman and he was cured
- report: whoever introduces into this matter of ours what is not from it it is rejected
- Quran 5:3 (today I have completed for you your religion): https://quran.com/5/3
- ruqya (reading Quran over the afflicted)
- raqi (one who performs ruqya; exorcist)
- Shaytan

## Transcript (machine tier, 38:51–44:09)

[38:30] truth of the matter really is that certainly people have got many many illnesses someone unless it is actually in the body sometime illness can be mental sometimes comes psychological just once I've met so many innocent and for every illness he has made cure some type people don't make proper effort or find a cure but if you keep making effort you can't find a code go to write it that way unless I have made the worries that follow the right procedure that allows me if you follow the right procedure even if you don't succeed unlevel forgive you abort the process in every illness at got a cure good to find so this thing a killer a

[39:09] basic and then how are the profits Anjali when the profits are unused to fall ill people ask I should not know around the Western said I asked my Mahalo Haifa that you know you know fact you know the Quran you know the hadith that week understand because you are wife of the first alsalam you know also Arab genealogy you know Arab report Lee do we understand because your father Abu Bakr Siddiq was expert of Arabic poetry he was Potiphar Guinea our genealogy it you know those you know how to interpret dream because your father is part of this thing but we don't understand how do you know so much about medicine miracle treat how do you know so much about that so she said because when the professor used to fall ill to Arab doctors used to

[39:47] come to him and you know look at him and they used to prescribe certainties and I used to make those Melissa Farley for him data how I learned so the professor last that how he did that or right procedure is you know is think really if you people think that you read certain words it can cure illness who knows those words more than the professor also people say if you read Sutra father's cure from every illness if this is what it means what you think really then why the Prophet then the Prophet read through the taffeta there he read more than us why the professor need to go to a doctor just think if you take the meaning of this Hadees actually is that any unless

[40:26] you just will fight that you're cured if this is the meaning then tell me that during the professor will the suits father why didn't he write what that equal to dr. why the companies he went to doctor why in Islam Muslims develop that to him because you know signs so much why it happened if a sutra attack and kill the people that is the meaning then why people do this thing if people say that certain if you have a headache you read this verse you never came if you have a stomachache you do this thing even this problem could they have gone actually that they have made it you know Doha a medical treatment from the Quran actually they call this did in or align the Quran or Davao a bit of Quran or

[41:05] third Avenue from they made these things that they were could publish the book with the treat people by the Quran but the people who published the book when they fall ill they go to doctor for you have they made this book the publishing and the printed that you get money but when they fall ill they go to doctors because they know this is not Allah saw that did not send the poorer for this purpose this is misuse at the Quran disrespect at the book the book has got come to guide you to make with proper human being that would intercut far this more thing exactly anybody can you know develop medical medical science would intercut further purpose misuse of the book but people are Kiptyn and many many more lamar do the delphi a lot more more

[41:42] mislead so by doing after allah ma it does not become varied because the professor does myself very clearly Monica does Fe a marina hada malai Cimino the Hawara to anybody who elements in our religion what I did not have found religion it is rejected anybody anybody believes something the reason our frontal region reacted the Professor Larson and also hotel never never allowed people to do this thing the Quran never came for this purpose they said they're either Hadees that somebody in or another tribe a little tribe we know he was hot problem and then what a companion he know he he read surah fatah he became code yeah certainly this thing can happen under so

[42:22] hot Allah can do to him he wanted to help those companies because didn't have any food he wanted to help them to get the food but this is not that never people used to fold a you to for elder father and also if this is the true then why you need not be carting read Fatiha if you relate thanks to the reading the father can cure you telling me really wide then you need rocky who among you say who can EE father themselves why do these people surah fatah can choose the father can cure everybody for every illness their wine with rustic wine why they needed so you know this hadith sir

[42:59] Mahadevi amoreena hada male stamina for a - amar Chaudhary said falmouth today in Surat Allah he will assign Holly or mythology unnecessary Atta lambda Timah the person who in verse something the religion he basically what to say - alia was not complete when are complete one uber km you know Amina Xie Jia Jia mr.

[43:22] ha Bush Dracula there are something left and now we need to complete that what he's saying so this is big accusation against the professor listen I guess al-aswad Allah and our parcel o man of Raman Beamer if draw like a river who is more wrongdoer than those purely mental I guess Allah the messenger if people in midlife so this a lie has gone and very very large disc instead no proof are these people about any of this course they do and most of the course that they do it in 30 anyway but even if they use the Quran did not proof are that what actually is proof are that certainly no doubt there's art ever said the Quran their meaning is so clear if you read them you understand their meaning which

[44:02] were helping you a ghetto whispering of Shaitan and they make stronger against many many are those problems just true but for that you don't need anybody else you need to develop understanding of the point yourself read yourself the professor learn lesson did not say that somebody else read for you read for yourself you read yourself you know all the truth are for yourself admirably fell across would have been a see for yourself who's the fattest for you you don't need anybody to in with the name of Rakhi to come and to do for you this is what you never never found really I never have found in my life I asked many Allah I will neither told a mother and cousin stop the people all the time coming I never found my life any story

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 7z8yu8Kr83Y/s/8. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7z8yu8kr83y/s/8/

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