The Albaani Site

A PDF of an English translation of the duʿa book but without Shaikh al-Albaani’s checking of the hadīth here.
A PDF of the Arabic version checked by Shaikh al-Albaani here.

Al-Albaani: Yes.
Questioner: As-Salāmu ʿalaikum.
Al-Albaani: Wa ʿalaikum salaam.
Questioner: How are you, my Shaikh?
Al-Albaani: Alḥamdulillah, well.
Questioner: May Allaah bless you and give you a long life dedicated to His obedience.
Al-Albaani: May Allaah protect you and give you the same.
Questioner: O Shaikh, I’m undergoing a great test from Allaah the Mighty and Majestic. I’ve been sick for the past two and a half years, and Allaah knows best but my sickness is due to the Jinn’s touch [مَس].
Al-Albaani: May Allaah remove any harm from mankind and the jinn from you.
Questioner: Āmīn, O Lord of all Worlds. O Shaikh, I’ve been tormented a great deal. All praise is due to Allaah, all praise is due to Allaah, Lord of all worlds. I haven’t left a place where there are Salafī Shaikhs except that I’ve been there, may Allaah bless them, so I have had lots of ruqyah done. But it didn’t help.

I’ve been tormented severely to such an extent that I can’t attend any Islamic lessons. I haven’t been able to pray in the mosque for a number of months. I can’t sleep. I can’t have physical relations with my family. I can’t drive my car. And many, many such disasters. I had to leave my job.

And this has tormented me severely, yaʿnī, to such an extent that … I’m patient, and all praise is for Allaah, but, yaʿnī, I ask the people and most of them say, ‘Brother, go and get yourself cured through any means necessary.’

I’m someone who, yaʿnī, alḥamdulillah—I don’t mean to praise myself—I’m practising, upon obedience to Allaah with His Permission, the Mighty and Majestic.

To be frank I’m being severely tormented to such an extent that when I read the Qurʾān blood comes out of my stomach. I can’t read the Qurʾān. I can’t perform my ṣalāh with khushūʿ. I am really sick. Even now when I am sat speaking to you I feel the fatigue/pain.

So I need a fatwā, O Shaikh. Yaʿnī, do I [try to] stay patient and hope for the reward from Allaah the Mighty and Majestic or do I meet Allaah the Mighty and Majestic with Him angry at me … [for trying to find a cure through something that goes against the Sunnah] or should I seek a cure …, yaʿnī, I’ve done lots and lots of checkups with doctors, laparoscopies and x-rays but they found nothing.

But in my intestines, in my stomach there is something that bloats and really hurts me …

Al-Albaani: How old are you?
Questioner: I’m twenty-seven, Shaikh.
Al-Albaani: Okay, so you said that you are practising?
Questioner: Inshā Allaah.
Al-Albaani: Okay, the first thing I advise you is not to go to Shaikhs who summon the Jinn.

Secondly, that you face all of your issues with the Prophetic adhkār, and they can be found in a small book by me printed under the name, ‘Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kalim aṭ-Ṭayib.’

So regard this small book as your [personal] medical prophetic prescription. Follow every supplication in it. Implement every dhikr that is in this book to the letter.

How? When you stand to pray you have to read al-Fātiḥah and when you bow or prostrate etc., [there are certain things you have to say] in the same way [learn and] use the words of remembrance that are mentioned in this book. For example, when you enter your house say: Bismillah [‘In the Name of Allaah’], when you leave it you say:

بِسْمِ اللهِ ، تَوَكَّلْـتُ عَلى الله
Bismillāh, tawakkaltu ʿalallāh.
In the name of Allaah. I place my trust in Allaah.

اللّهُـمَّ إِنِّـي أَعـوذُ بِكَ أَنْ أَضِـلَّ أَوْ أُضَـلّ، أَوْ أَزِلَّ أَوْ أُزَلّ،أَوْ أَظْلِـمَ أَوْ أَُظْلَـم، أَوْ أَجْهَلَ أَوْ يُـجْهَلَ عَلَـيّ
“Allāhumma ʾinnī ʾaʿūthu bika ʾan ʾaḍilla ʾaw ʾuḍall, ʾaw ʾazilla ʾaw ʾuzall, aw ʾaẓlima ʾaw ʾuẓlama, ʾaw ʾajhala ʾaw yujhal ʿalayya.

O Allaah! I take refuge with You lest I should stray or be led astray, or slip or be tripped, or oppress or be oppressed, or behave foolishly or be treated foolishly. [slip: i.e. to commit a sin unintentionally.]”

So when you enter the house it’s with Bismillah, when you enter the toilet you seek refuge with Allaah with the relevant dhikr mentioned in the book and so on. This is what I advise you with firstly and I hope that by using these Prophetic words of remembrance your cure will follow.

Secondly, I say to you that you need to be patient—and this is something you have to do—until the cure comes to you.

And I will remind you of a ḥadīth of the Prophet ﷺ. There was a woman who used to have fits/seizures. Do you know what that means?
Questioner: Yes, O Shaikh.
Al-Albaani: What does it mean?
Questioner: That she would lose consciousness.
Al-Albaani: Well done. And when she would fall unconscious she would become uncovered, you know what that [word tankashif] means?
Questioner: Yes, O Shaikh, [parts of her would] become bare …
Al-Albaani: May Allaah bless you. So she came to the Prophet ﷺ asking him to make duʿā for her. And this is the Messenger of Allaah ﷺ whose supplications are guaranteed answered. So he said if you wish I will supplicate for you and if you wish you can be patient and Paradise is yours. Do you understand?
Questioner: Understood, O Shaikh, may Allaah bless you.
Al-Albaani: And you too. [Her being] a religious, smart lady, she says if that is the case O Messenger of Allaah I will be patient. But supplicate that I do not become uncovered. So Allaah’s Messenger ﷺ made duʿā for her and thereafter she used to have seizures—why was she satisfied with having them? Because the Prophet ﷺ gave her the good news that if she was patient then Paradise is hers.

So [again] because she was intelligent and because of her dīn she wanted to guard her dignity so she said then supplicate to Allaah for me O Messenger of Allaah ﷺ that I do not become uncovered. So he ﷺ supplicated for her and thereafter whenever she would have a seizure none of her would become exposed.

So I advise you to be patient and not to become discontented and you must keep Allaah’s Saying in mind:

“We will certainly test you with a touch of fear and famine and loss of property, life, and crops. Give good news to those who patiently endure—who, when faced with a disaster, say, ‘Surely to Allaah we belong and to Him we will ˹all˺ return.’ They are the ones who will receive Allaah’s Blessings and Mercy. And it is they who are ˹rightly˺ guided.” [2:155-157.]

This is the answer I have for you. So in summary, I will repeat and say to you again, seek your treatment and cure with the Prophetic medicine. Then be patient. Clear?
Questioner: May Allaah reward you with good, O Shaikh.
Al-Albaani: And you too, inshā Allaah.
Questioner: All praise is due to Allaah, Lord of all Worlds.
Al-Albaani: Alḥamdulillāh always. And I hope that you are cured quickly.

Was-salāmu ʿalaikum.