Treatment of One Afflicted by Possession (after the jinn have entered the person)
The Greatest Treatment:
1. Reciting Surah al-Fatihah and blowing over the patient:
Hadrat Kharijah ibn al-Salt (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates from his uncle that he came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, accepted Islam, and then left from his presence. He passed by a people who had a mad man bound with iron chains. The people said to him: We have received good news about this man (the Messenger of Allah ﷺ); do you have anything with which you can treat this man? So I recited Surah al-Fatihah and blew over him, and he was cured. They gave me one hundred sheep. I came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and told him about this incident, and he said: Did you recite anything besides that? In another narration it says: Did you say anything besides that? I said: No. He said: Take it. By my life, people take payment for false incantations, but you have taken payment for a lawful incantation.
In another narration: He recited Surah al-Fatihah over that insane man and blew over him morning and evening three times. Whenever he finished blowing, he gathered his saliva and spat it on him, and it was as if he had been freed from the knots. Then the man’s heirs gave him sheep.
2. Reciting Ayat al-Kursi.
3. Reciting the last two verses of Surah al-Baqarah. Then recite these surahs:
4. قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدٌ
5. قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ الْفَلَقِ
6. قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ النَّاسِ
7. Then blow over the patient.
8. Repeat this practice three times or more.
9. Recite other Quranic verses besides these and blow over the patient. The entire Quran is a cure. In it there is healing, guidance and mercy for the believers.
10. The supplications for blowing were mentioned earlier in the treatment of sorcery.
11. If the adhan is called into the ear of such an unconscious or afflicted person, this is also very beneficial, because the devil flees upon hearing the sound of the adhan.
It is narrated from Hadrat Abdullah ibn Mas’ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that he recited something into the ear of one afflicted, and he found relief. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ asked: What did you recite into his ear? He said: I recited this surah:
أَفَحَسِبْتُمْ أَنَّمَا خَلَقْنَاكُمْ عَبَثًا وَأَنَّكُمْ إِلَيْنَا لَا تُرْجَعُونَ
Do you think that We created you without purpose, and that you would not be returned to Us?
He recited the entire surah to the end. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: If a person of faith and certainty were to recite it upon a mountain, it would move from its place.
Allamah Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him) used to treat by reciting Ayat al-Kursi and the two Mu’awwidhat, and he would often recite this verse into the ear of the patient:
أَفَحَسِبْتُمْ أَنَّمَا خَلَقْنَاكُمْ عَبَثًا وَأَنَّكُمْ إِلَيْنَا لَا تُرْجَعُونَ
He also told me that once he recited this verse into the ear of one afflicted, and the spirit cried out: Yes, we return to Allah. And it drew out its voice at great length.
Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him) said: That jinn enter the bodies of the children of Adam is established in light of the consensus of the Imams of Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jama’ah. Allah the Exalted says:
الَّذِينَ يَأْكُلُونَ الرِّبَا لَا يَقُومُونَ إِلَّا كَمَا يَقُومُ الَّذِي يَتَخَبَّطُهُ الشَّيْطَانُ مِنَ الْمَسِّ
Those who consume interest will rise (from their graves) in the same state as one whom a jinn has struck and driven mad.
It is established in a sahih hadith that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: The devil moves through the children of Adam as blood flows through their veins.
Imam Abdullah ibn Ahmad ibn Hanbal (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I said to my father: Indeed some people say that jinn do not enter the body of one afflicted. He said: O my son! These people are lying, and it is this jinn that speaks upon their tongues.
Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him) said: What you have stated is a very well-known matter. Jinn render a person unconscious and then speak through his tongue in a manner whose meaning is not understood at all. Further on he said: Among the Imams of Islam there is not a single one who denies that jinn enter the human body. Whoever denies this and claims that the Shari’ah rejects it, certainly rejects the Shari’ah. There is nothing in the textual evidences that contradicts it.
