3-Endless Bliss Third Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

or who has been frightened, it is permissible to burn straws and
fumigate him by turning them around him or to pour melted wax
(or lead) into cold water over his head. In Mawâhib and
Madârij, Abdullah bin Wahab Qurayshî, a Mâlikî savant who
died in 197 (813), says, “According to Imâm-i Mâlik, it is makrûh
to do ruqya with iron, with salt, by knotting two pieces of thread
or with the seal of Sulaymân.”
Ruqya means to say prayers and breathe on something or
to carry on oneself. Doing ruqya with âyats and with the prayers
coming down from Rasûlullah is called ta’wîz. Ta’wîz is
permissible and gives use to the person who believes and
trusts. As written in Halebî and in Durr ul-mukhtâr, at the end
of the chapter about tahârat (cleanliness) [p. 119], after
wrapping up the amulet containing ta’wîz with such waterproof
things as tarpaulin and nylon, it is permissible for a junub to
bear it or to go to the restroom with it on. It is called afsûn
(incantation) to say a ruqya whose meaning is not known or
which causes disbelief. Carrying this or other things called
nazarlık (anything worn in order to avert the evil eye) on oneself
is called tamîma. Those ruqyas made in order to cause
affection and love are called tiwala. A hadîth, which exists on
the two hundred and thirty-second and the two hundred and
seventy-fifth pages of the fifth volume of Radd ul-muhtâr and
which is also written in the books Mawâhib and Madârij, states,
“Tamîma and tiwala are shirk.” At the same place Ibni Abidîn
informs that it is permissible to put bones or animal skulls in a
field to avert the evil eye. A person who looks at the field will
first see these things and then the field. Hence, it is understood
that carrying such things as blue beads and others with this
intention is not tamîma; so it is permissible. It is written in the
Persian book Madârij-un-nubuwwa and on the hundred and
seventy-ninth page of the second volume of Mawâhib-i
ladunniyya that for curing a person harmed by evil eye it is
certainly helpful to recite the Âyat-al-kursî, the Fâtiha, the
Mu’awwaza-tayn and the end of Nûn Sûra. It is also useful to
recite the prayers written in these two books and on page 200
of the book Tas’hîl-ul-manâfi’. The most valuable and the most
useful prayer is the sûra of Fâtiha. It is written on the last page
of Tafsîr-i Mazharî, “A hadîth written in Ibni Mâja and
communicated by Hadrat Alî states, ‘The best medicine is the
Qur’ân.’ If it is recited and breathed on the ill person, he will
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