Many people approach witch doctors for the treatment of psychological diseases, believing them to be the effects of black magic or witchcraft. These so-called and self-styled witch doctors use unscientific and illogical methods to treat such patients.
It is very difficult to confirm the different methods of black magic and so are their effects. Generally, people say that non-Muslims indulge in black magic. However, those non-Muslims who carried out extensive research on the topic have come to a conclusion that it is very difficult to find out whether one can do harm with the help of black magic. For, most of the time, people are defrauded in the name of black magic and its treatment.
Moreover, my experience with several patients also bears the truth. When I took away ‘taweez’ from several patients, I found that they contained either pieces of plain papers, leaves and roots of trees, different diagrams, last two verses of Qur’an, names of Devttas and Devis or Ayatal Kursi. Even in one taweez, a small copy of the Qur’an was found. After adopting all these methods, people approach me for treatment.
Prophet Muhammad (sal Allaahu alaihi wa sallam) said, “One who wears a taweez (amulets), is one does polytheism (shirk).”
It is very difficult to say about the benefits of a taweez. If a taweez contains Qur’anic verses, there is a great possibility of disrespect to them, as patients wear the taweez all the time, even while going to toilet. Some people hold ‘taweez’ in so high esteem that they don’t agree to take it off at any cost. Here, I would like to present the example of a patient, who was suffering from conditions like anxiety, restlessness, insomnia etc. She was taken to a witch doctor, who gave her a ‘taweez,’ but when it did not work, she was hospitalized and her illness was diagnosed as depression.
She was treated for the illness and got well soon. She used to forbid her husband come near her. For, her respect for her ‘taweez’ grew so high that she developed a thought that intimacy with her husband would be disrespect to it. This further led to a strained relationship between them and the things came to such a pass that divorce seemed inevitable. After much persuasion, I succeeded in taking her ‘taweez’ off. But no sooner did her taweez removed than her facial expressions go changed and looking angrily at her husband she said his face had turned ugly. At this moment, I asked the lady where she read about it. She burst into laughter and later admitted that there was no harm even after removal of her ‘taweez.’ And the couple started living happily thereafter.
Regarding taweez, my experience shows that a patient, despite suffering from psychological disease, feels being protected by the effects of black magic as far as he/she wears a taweez and gets affected once it is taken off. If such patients are convinced about what a taweez contains and there would be no harmful effects even after its removal, it would greatly help in healing them.
It is worthwhile to recall one interesting incident relating to taweez. Shaykh Saadi (RA), during a journey, was passing through a town when it became dark. He was looking for a stay overnight. One person agreed to provide him stay on the condition that he should give a taweez for his wife, who was in labor. Saadi (RA) wrote something on a piece of paper and asked him to tie it around the stomach of his wife. By a sheer co-incident, his wife delivered a baby same night. When a witch doctor came to know about this incident, he became curious to know what Saadi (RA) had written on the piece of paper. Saadi (RA) had written “Both I and my donkey are fine and arrangement for a night stay has also been made. (Awaz-e-Dost, Muqtar Masood).
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