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Is it permissible to undo witchcraft by using witchcraft?.

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Praise be to Allaah and blessings and peace be upon the Messenger of Allaah and his family and companions.

Undoing the effects of witchcraft on one who has been bewitched means that one of the following two scenarios must apply:

1 – That the ruqyahs prescribed in sharee’ah and the prayers for refuge with Allaah that are narrated from the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and permissible medicines are used. There is nothing wrong with that, but one must be careful to adhere to the guidelines prescribed in Islam with regard to ruqyah. See question no. 12918.

2 – That the witchcraft is treated by means of witchcraft, which means getting close to the jinn by means of offering sacrifices and other kinds of acts of worship. This is not permissible, because this is a devilish action, and indeed it is major shirk and we must avoid it. Similarly it is not permissible to treat the problem by asking fortune-tellers, soothsayers and magicians for help and doing what they say, because they are not believers and they are liars and evildoers who claim to have knowledge of the unseen and who deceive people. The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) warned us against going to them and believing what they say. He (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Whoever goes to a fortune-teller and asks him about something, his prayer will not be accepted for forty days.” And he (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Whoever goes to a soothsayer and believes what he says has disbelieved in that which was revealed to Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him).” The practitioners of witchcraft are kaafirs and it is not permissible to go to them or to ask them about anything or to believe them.

It was narrated in a saheeh report that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) was asked about nashrah. He said: “It is the work of the Shaytaan.” Narrated by Imam Ahmad in his Musnad, 3/294; Abu Dawood in his Sunan, 3868, with a jayyid isnaad. Nashrah means undoing witchcraft by means of witchcraft. What the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) meant by nashrah is that which the people of the Jaahiliyyah used to do, when they would ask the practitioners of witchcraft to undo spells, or undoing witchcraft by means of a spell from another practitioner of witchcraft.

With regard to undoing witchcraft by means of ruqyah and prayers for refuge with Allaah as prescribed in sharee’ah, and permissible kinds of medicine, there is nothing wrong with that. This was stated by Ibn al-Qayyim and Shaykh ‘Abd al-Rahmaan ibn Hasan in Fath al-Majeed, and also by other scholars. Allaah is the One Whom we ask to keep the Muslims safe from all evils and to preserve their religious commitment and help them to understand their religion, and to keep them safe from everything that goes against His laws. May Allaah send peace and blessings upon His slave and Messenger Muhammad and upon his family and companions.

See Majmoo’ Fataawa Samaahat al-Shaykh Ibn Baaz (may Allaah have mercy on him, 3/280.