My journey into this field did not begin as an academic interest. It began with suffering.

When I was 17 years old, I went through a deeply frightening and life-altering experience involving jinn affliction. Until then, my exposure to these matters had been limited to stories I had heard from others. But when it happened, I knew immediately that what I was facing was not normal.

What followed was one of the most harrowing periods of my life. It was a time of fear, confusion, spiritual struggle, and intense vulnerability. I remember desperately trying to call upon Allah, struggling to keep hold of myself, and later finding relief only in Qur’an, dhikr, and the presence of those reciting beside me. Some parts of that time are blurred in my memory, but what has never left me is how real, serious, and devastating these afflictions can be.

That experience changed the direction of my life.

What I went through was not a single isolated event. It was one part of a much longer journey involving the effects of sihr, jinn, and spiritual harm. Over time, that journey led me to learn how to treat these conditions, then to help others do the same.

 

Since then, I have seen firsthand the many ways these afflictions can disrupt a person’s life. I have seen people suffer in ways that left families exhausted, doctors confused, and hearts broken. I have seen severe pain with no clear explanation, relentless intrusive thoughts in children, terrifying disturbances in the home, long-standing blockages in marriage and livelihood, and people who felt trapped no matter how hard they tried to move forward.

But I have also seen something else.

I have seen people turn back to Allah with sincerity. I have seen them persist with Qur’an, du’a, ruqyah, patience, and practical effort. I have seen relief come in ways that were deeply moving and, at times, seemed nothing short of miraculous. I have seen fear replaced with peace, torment replaced with calm, and stagnation replaced with movement and hope.

Again and again, I have seen that Allah has indeed made the Qur’an a cure and a mercy for the believers.

 

My learning has come through several paths: studying almost every book I could find written on the subject; learning under, and treating patients alongside, some of the most knowledgeable and actively practising people in this field; and especially from more than fifteen years in the work itself, treating myself and thousands of people from different backgrounds, nationalities, and ethnicities.

I have tried everything there is to try. I have, like most beginners, invented new things to try. I have made all the mistakes there are to make. I have probably invented some new mistakes completely of my own. I have not been able to help many people. But through only the grace of the Almighty, many, many suffering people along the way have been helped or relieved.

There are things of value I have picked up on this continuing journey, and if you are on a similar journey, perhaps these things can be of value to you too. I am not an expert on the subject. I am a student who still learns every day. And if you are a student too, then we can share value. This blog is the sharing of that value: the things I have already learned, and the new things I learn as I learn them.

 

You will find nothing fancy on this website. No controversial methods with some obscure source. No witchcraft pretending to be treatment. No attempted reinvention of the wheel.

That last point is one of the most important lessons I have learned: stick to the basics. They are safe, and they work better than anything else. As a result, there is no reason to look outside them.

Ruqyah is not new. It was practised by the Prophet ﷺ, practised upon him, and encouraged by him to be practised upon others. There are many books written on the subject by people from the Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama’ah. The Shari’ah has strict rules and guidelines on the subject, laid out in detail long before any of us were born. What you will find on this website are things that do not merely toe those guidelines; they sit safely inside them.

That safety matters. Many people on this journey have lost more than they started with, and they started in a place of suffering. The wheel exists. Our job is to understand it better: how it works, why it works, why it might not be working for you, and what you can do about it.

Many people do not know what the basics are. Many have practised them incorrectly or inconsistently, and then concluded that the basics are not enough and gone searching for something more. In that search for something more, many have lost their iman. A drowning person will grab hold of anything, and people affected by sihr can be genuinely suffering in ways that people who have never been through it cannot fully understand. But do not let Shaytan convince you that the lifebuoy in front of you is not enough.

For any person who practises the basics correctly, consistently, and combines that with genuinely turning to Allah, it is more than sufficient. It can be life-changing.

 

That is why this site exists. Not to impress, not to mystify, and not to create dependency. But to give people what I wished I had when I was 17: a clear, honest, Shari’ah-grounded answer to what was happening to me, and a path through it.

Whatever benefit you find here is from Allah alone. Any shortcomings are from me.

 

Mohamed Abdullah

Risalatul Khayr