# Ruqya and the Quran as a cure: spiritual diseases, not cancer - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/r7s1dcclcwu/s/7/ - Date: 2018-01-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Abu Ibraheem (Salafi)- By Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (40:38–45:58) - Status: general teaching - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7s1DcClcwU&t=2438s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/r7s1dcclcwu/ **Topics:** Medical questions; Responses to critics **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** The Quran is a cure for the spiritual diseases of the heart, not a replacement for medicine for physical illness. The Prophet told people to seek medicine. **Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** The Quran's description of itself as a cure refers to the spiritual diseases of the heart, not to physical illness, for which the Prophet instructed people to seek medicine. **Evidence, his words at 43:12:** “if a person has cancer you don't say I know let's sit down and read the Quran in the cancer will go away the Prophet never taught you to do that” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7s1DcClcwU&t=2592s) ## Longer summary Mufti Abu Layth takes up the critic's last claim, that he denies the Quran is a cure for diseases and treats ruqya as mere ritual, against the verse that says the Quran is a shifa. He says he was briefly concerned until he read the rest of the verse, which he says speaks of a cure for what is in the hearts, and compares the critic to the people in a hadith who covered part of a verse with a hand until the Prophet told them to lift it and read the whole. He says the Quran is a shifa for the spiritual diseases of the heart, that the Prophet never taught anyone to recite over cancer or a brain tumour and expect it to disappear, and that the hadith on medicine tells people to seek medicine. He accuses the critic of first misattributing words to the Prophet and now to God. He closes with an Urdu couplet about storms and leaves, thanks the critic for taking the time to address him, and hopes the reply has been educational. ## Sources and names cited - Abu Ibraheem Husnayn - Quran 17:82 (we send down of the Quran what is a shifa) [?] (reference uncertain; possibly https://quran.com/17/82) - report: lift your hand and read the whole verse (unresolved) - report: tadawaw seek medicine (unresolved) - ruqya - shifa (cure) ## Transcript (machine tier, 40:38–45:58) [40:04] shall fall in his grace it is nothing to do with you it is not your concern Fira Mattila i shall fall if i fall so the point is look you and any of anybody else out there is most welcome to prove concepts prove me wrong but bring me categorical evidences from the kitab it was sooner and prove your point and let me respond so anyway i thought that was worth some [40:41] some some attention after all the brother took an entire hour out oh and he said about Rukia he said about Rukia that this person the mufti claims that the Quran is not a cure for diseases and he claims that these are just rituals and it is not a cure for diseases or illnesses and the mufti goes against the verse of the Quran one who knows a luminal karana [41:19] mawashi fuh have i disbelieved in the verse of the quran for a moment i got concerned but then i thought let me read the remaining part of the verse for I have once read in a hadith that the Prophet was approached by people and when they read to him they placed their hand the Jewish people they place their hand on the other verse so he couldn't [41:57] see the remaining verse so the Prophet said move your hand and read the entire he naughty naughty finish the verse I'll be I'll give heart read on ma read one Nunez aluminum al-shifa we reveal from the Quran what is the Shiva lamothe is solo for the heart for the heart the Quran is a Shiva [42:33] for the diseases the spiritual diseases of the heart that a lie saying that am I saying tawba tawba so what the what how can how can I say I would want I would want to agree with you but the Word of God yeah so not only do we see you quoting life IDs blaspheming by miss attributing them to the Messenger of Allah you're cutting and pasting the Word of God to now [43:12] chopping and pasting no no no no no yeah we had better hopes for you we had better hopes so the Quran is a shiver for spiritual not for if a person has cancer you don't say I know let's sit down and read the Quran in the cancer will go away the Prophet never taught you to do that the Prophet said in a hadith to Dawa the Prophet said that I will seek medicine go out then seek medicine [43:50] you are meant to seek medicine you're meant to medicate you meant to go and do these things this if you're not supposed to sit around and start just oh the person's got a brain tumor I know let's all recite a surah of the Quran and then check if it's disappeared what on earth is wrong with you that nobody has said that and God knows certainly as not so pleased first you miss attributed words to the prophet of God and now you miss attributed words to God himself tawba tawba [44:30] not even the messenger and God are safe from their words and misattributions so thank you so how could people like me be safe [Laughter] [Music] Josh I said toot Cargill forever pertaining here those leaves that just fly off the kind [45:06] of branches and fall we are not such in on do sacado Sarah or Pat Mary tell these storms to stay in the lane recognize recognize your worth don't aim too high [45:34] other than that nothing but love ok MA for taking the time out to address me right I am charmed right and so for that I I hope this has been helpful in me educating you and other people as well so other than that people ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment R7s1DcClcwU/s/7. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/r7s1dcclcwu/s/7/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. 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