Built on 15 years of experience assessing real cases.
Whether it is your marriage, work, money, health, sleep, or worship, this assessment covers all of it. Your result will show you exactly which areas are affected, how they connect, and what to do first.
A mistake many people looking for answers about spiritual affliction make is that they believe they need to see someone in person: a sheikh, a raaqi, or someone with a “gift” who can “read” what is happening to them.
There are many things Allah has kept hidden from us, that no human being has access to, and while some practitioners claim they can tell you what is affecting you through unseen means, that is not how a practitioner who works within the Qur’an and Sunnah should work.
What we are actually taught to do, is look at what is happening across the persons whole life and ask whether the pattern matches what we know of how magic, jinn and evil eye affect a person.
Think about how you would go to a doctor. You have a cough, a fever, body aches, and fatigue. The doctor does not need to isolate the exact virus under a microscope before prescribing treatment. He looks at the cluster of symptoms, matches them against known patterns, and tells you what the presentation is consistent with, then gives you the medicine you need.
Spiritual afflictions work the same way. They have symptoms. Those symptoms appear across specific areas of your life: blockages, physical health, emotional state, sleep and dreams, relationships, and worship. And just like a doctor reads a patient’s presentation, those patterns can be read.
This self-screening assessment uses the same approach. It asks about the same areas we ask about in a real assessment: life blockages, physical symptoms, emotional state, sleep and dreams, relationships, worship, and reactions to Qur’an. It then looks for the kinds of clusters that often appear in real cases.
It may seem surprisingly simple and takes less than 10 minutes, but it is built on years of assessing cases directly, and I have made it free to access. It gives you a clear starting point, whether your result is mild or strong.
This is a screening, not a final diagnosis. But if a clear pattern is present, recognising it can be the difference between taking meaningful action and continuing to struggle without understanding why.
Take the assessment, you might be surprised how accurate it can be.
If you’re curious about how this self screening tool works, keep scrolling.
After your last question, you will see your overall result immediately. Enter your name and email to unlock the full breakdown.
Your full result shows you which areas of your life are most affected, how your symptoms connect to each other, and exactly what to do first. It is the kind of reading most people only get from a qualified practitioner, and it is free.
If you need it, you will also receive a complete 14-day treatment plan covering magic, jinn, and evil eye, with daily recitations, specific intentions, and a symptom tracker, so you can start treatment immediately.
The screening above gives you a result. What follows teaches you how to read your own situation yourself, so you understand what the quiz was measuring and why. If you already took the quiz and want to move straight to treatment, scroll to the bottom of this page for your next steps. If you want to understand the framework behind the assessment, keep going.
Spiritual afflictions have symptoms. Those symptoms have been described in detail: in the Quran, in the Sunnah, and across centuries of scholarly and practitioner experience. And just like a doctor reads a patient’s presentation, you can learn to read your own.
Go through each of these areas and ask yourself what is actually happening. Not what you fear might be happening. Not what someone told you is happening. What you can see with your own eyes when you look at your life honestly. Below are the areas in which magic, jinn and evil eye typically manifest and by assessing those areas in your life you can get a good picture on whether or not there is a spiritual affliction in your life.
If you are assessing on behalf of someone else, a child, a spouse, a family member who cannot or will not do this for themselves, the same framework applies. You are looking at their life through these same lenses.
Is there an area of your life where things are stuck in a pattern? It does not need to be every area. It might be one. Marriage proposals that collapse at the last stage. A career or business that stalls no matter what you try. Studies that keep getting derailed. Money that arrives and immediately vanishes in unexpected expenses.
Look for two things in particular. The first is repetition: the same kind of failure happening in the same area, again and again, in ways that feel disproportionate to the circumstances. Or the second way blockages can work is aversion: not just struggling with something but finding that you have lost all desire to even try. You may have been interested in that area of your life at some point, even made real effort, but now the thought of working on it produces resistance, avoidance, or even anger. If someone close to you pushes you toward it, suggests you try again, you may find yourself reacting with irritation that surprises even you. That reaction is not laziness. It may be the blockage operating at its deepest level, the point where it has shaped not just your circumstances but your beliefs about yourself and your possibilities.
Pay attention to where and when your mental and emotional symptoms appear, not just what they are. Anxiety or avoidance that arrives specifically when you try to do something related to the blocked area. Anger that fires specifically in the relationship that is under strain. Negative thoughts that circle constantly around one part of your life: your job is hopeless, your marriage is over, your studies are pointless, no one wants what you have to offer.
General anxiety and low mood can come from many sources, and if you are experiencing anxiety, depression, or trauma that would benefit from professional support, pursue that support. Ruqyah does not replace therapy or psychiatric care, it works alongside them. But when the emotional disturbance is targeted, when it concentrates around a specific area of your life and makes it harder to function or make effort in that area specifically, that is a different picture. The symptoms are not just making you feel bad. They are keeping you stuck.
Similar to the mental and emotional layer, look at whether your physical symptoms have a relationship to what is blocked. Headaches when you try to study. Chest tightness when you prepare for a job interview. Stomach problems when you are dealing with your spouse. Exhaustion that peaks when you attempt to work on your business but lifts when you are doing something unrelated.
Also look for symptoms that medical investigation has not been able to explain. Chronic fatigue with no clear cause. Pain that moves around the body. Heaviness and pressure that does not correspond to any diagnosis. Unable to conceive though medically fit. Menstrual irregularity, unusual pain around cycles, or reproductive symptoms that have resisted treatment. Pains that doctors eventually told you must be depression.
If you have been to doctors and they have not found a clear cause, or different doctors have told you different things and nobody agrees, that does not mean nothing is wrong with you. It means the cause may not sit within their field of vision. The symptoms are still real. And when unexplained physical symptoms sit alongside blockages, emotional disturbance, and disturbed sleep, the picture becomes harder to dismiss.
Assessing yourself for a spiritual dimension does not mean abandoning the medical one. If you have symptoms that a doctor should investigate, see the doctor. The two tracks run in parallel and treating spiritually does not interfere with your medical care.
Look at both the quality of your sleep and the content of your dreams. Nightmares that repeat. Waking exhausted regardless of how long you slept. A dread of going to bed. Sleep paralysis. Feeling presences and waking up frightened in the middle of the night.
But also look at what you dream about and whether it connects to what is happening in your waking life. Being chased in dreams often appears in people whose lives are stuck and who feel unable to move forward. Falling from high places carries a similar meaning. Water, drowning, and floods appear frequently. Animals that attack. War and violence. Dirty places and toilets. Graves and death.
When the themes in your dreams echo what is happening in the rest of your life, that is significant. A person who is stuck in their career, who gets headaches when they try to study, who feels an aversion to working on their goals, and who regularly dreams of being chased and falling from heights, has four layers of symptoms all pointing at the same thing. That kind of coherence across waking and sleeping life is hard to explain as coincidence.
Has your relationship with salaah, Quran, and dhikr changed in a way you cannot fully explain? Salaah feeling unusually heavy. A resistance to picking up the mushaf that was not there before. Feeling spiritually numb or distant despite wanting to be close to Allah. Waswas that intensifies specifically during worship. Finding it easy to scroll your phone for hours but impossible to sit for five minutes of recitation. Not the normal fluctuations of iman that every believer experiences, but a targeted heaviness that concentrates around the acts that should bring you peace.
That said, not everyone who is affected will experience difficulty in worship. It is very common, but it is not universal. Some people pray well, maintain their adhkar, and feel connected to Allah, while being heavily blocked in their career, their marriage, or their health. The absence of worship difficulty does not mean the absence of affliction. It simply means the affliction is not targeting that area.
Has something shifted between you and the people closest to you? This does not have to be mysterious from the outside. Sometimes the person can see exactly why their relationships are suffering: they shout, they withdraw, they push people away, they react with anger that damages everyone around them. The spouse knows why things are bad. The children know why the house is tense.
But the question behind the question is: why are you behaving this way? If this has been your pattern for years, going back to childhood, and you have never been able to change it despite genuinely wanting to, that pattern itself may be the symptom. Jinn influence that began early in life can shape a person’s temperament so deeply that the behaviour feels like personality rather than affliction. The fact that the relationship damage has an obvious cause does not rule out a spiritual root. It just means the root is expressing itself through your behaviour rather than through events that happen to you.
In other cases, the shift is sudden and harder to explain. Overnight coldness. Unexplained repulsion toward a spouse you loved. Arguments that erupt over nothing and escalate far beyond what the situation warrants. Repeated attempts at reconciliation that fail in the same way every time. Feeling close to the person and missing them when they are not around but irritation when they come close.
If you are reading this because someone you love has changed and you are trying to understand what happened to them, this framework applies to what you observe in their life too. Look at the same areas. See whether the patterns connect. And if they will not assess themselves, that does not mean you cannot begin. The section on treating family members covers what to do when the affected person is not cooperating.
Does your home feel different from how it should? A heaviness or darkness that others might notice too. Feeling tired or depressed in the home but better when you are out. Unusual sounds or disturbances. Feeling presences, seeing fast-moving shadows.
If you have children, pay particular attention to changes in them. A child will not tell you “I feel spiritually heavy.” But a child who suddenly becomes afraid of a specific room, who wakes screaming at night, who regresses in behaviour, who develops nightmares they did not have before, who clings to you and refuses to sleep alone, is showing you something. When multiple children in the same home are disturbed at night, or when one child is consistently worse than the others without a clear reason, the home environment or a targeted affliction on that child is worth considering.
Sleep paralysis. A sense that the conflict in the house belongs to the environment itself and not just to the people in it. These are all worth noting.
You have just walked yourself through the same framework a practitioner would use. Not a practitioner who claims to see the unseen (or does so through forbidden means), but one who works from symptoms and what is observable in a person’s life. What you have done is a genuine assessment. Give yourself a moment to sit with what it showed you.
The answer to the question “How can i tell if I am affected by magic?” is, you show the signs of being affected, ie. blockages in life, mental and/or physical symptoms and dreams.
Not every person who is affected will have clear symptoms in every area. Some cases are obvious: strong symptoms in multiple areas, all clearly related, all pointing in the same direction. The blockage or even multiple areas blocked, the emotional disturbance, the physical symptoms, the dreams, and the worship difficulty all connect to each other in a way that is hard to miss. When the picture is that clear, there is very little doubt.
Other cases are less clear. A few symptoms, loosely connected, with nothing dramatic in any single area. The person is not sure whether what they are dealing with is a spiritual problem or just a difficult season of life. That uncertainty is honest, and it is fine. You do not need to be certain before you act.
What you are looking for is not a checklist with a minimum score. You are looking for patterns in being blocked, mental and/or physical symptoms (especially related to the blockage) and the bad dreams. You could have all four categories or one or two. If you have a blockage in one area of your life that travels with emotional symptoms related to that same area, physical symptoms that connect to it, and dreams whose themes echo it. That’s very loudly signing a spiritual illness such as magic or jinn or evil eye.
You may have been told it is ayn, or sihr, or jinn. You may want to know which one. But your treatment does not change based on the label. It changes based on your symptoms. You treat what you can see in your life, not what you think might be happening in the unseen. And treating your symptoms is the fastest way I have seen people recover.
Some of you reading this are not new to ruqyah. You have been reciting, perhaps for months. You found an audio or a programme and you followed it. Maybe things improved slightly at first, then plateaued. Maybe nothing changed at all. And now you are back to the beginning, quietly wondering: am I even affected? Have I been doing all of this for nothing?
The doubt is understandable, but the answer is almost certainly not that you are unaffected. If your symptoms matched the pattern described above when you first started treating, and they still match now, the affliction has not disappeared. What most likely needs to happen is your method needs adjustment.
The most common reasons treatment stalls are not mysterious. Reciting without a specific intention for each symptom. Reciting without the practical effort track running alongside it. Not tracking symptoms, so you cannot see gradual change that is actually happening or more importantly, knowing when it’s safe to stop. Running sessions that are too long to sustain, then dropping them entirely. Treating intensity as a substitute for consistency.
If that sounds familiar, the issue is how you are treating, not whether you need treatment. Check out our post:
Ruqyah Isn’t Working: What to Do When Nothing Seems to Change
and our How to Unblock Your Life with Qur’an series walks through the method step by step.
What you did in the assessment above, looking at your life across these areas and seeing whether the patterns connect, is the rational way to assess your situation. It is the same logic we use when someone comes to us for a consultation.
Allah the Exalted has given you intelligence and reasoning. Any person can use these and assess his situation for himself. Allah has not made you dependent on going to someone with “powers” or a “gift”. Someone who works with jinn or other shady practices. Simply look at your life; are there areas you are stuck with, physical and/or mental symptoms which don’t make sense or resist treatment or help keep you stuck or blocked? Are there bad dreams?
You do not need more than this. I’ll tell you why.
You do not need to know 100% whether it is either sihr or ayn or jinn because it will not change your treatment. You definitely do not need to know who did it. You do not need to know when it was done or how it was delivered. None of that information is necessary for treatment, because the treatment does not target the label. It targets your symptoms.
As someone who has seen thousands of cases successfully treat themselves by focusing on their symptoms, take it from me: the people who recover are not the ones who know exactly what has been done to them or where or when.
Rather, I have seen countless cases in which the affected person knew exactly who had done the magic to them, how it was done, what it was done for, and when it was done, since it was done openly and brazenly against them. They still suffered and struggled until they started proper treatment, treatment that was built to target their symptoms, not what they knew about their affliction.
The ones who get better are the ones who looked at their symptoms, built a plan around them, and did the work consistently. The solution to your problem does not require a diagnosis from the unseen. It requires Quran, du’a, practical effort, and consistency. Those things work whether you are certain or not. They work whether you are right about the cause or not. And they will move your life forward regardless of what is behind the problem, because the treatment addresses what is in front of you: the blockage, the anxiety, the pain, the broken sleep, the strained relationship, the heavy worship.
And if there is one thing that should put the search for certainty to rest permanently, it is this: there is no harm in treating yourself with permissible means if you aren’t affected by something mystical. The treatment is Quran. It is du’a. It is the adhkar of the Prophet (peace be upon him). It is practical effort on the areas of your life that are stuck. If you do all of that and it turns out you were never spiritually afflicted, what have you lost? You have recited more Quran. You have made more du’a. You have strengthened your relationship with Allah. You have worked on your marriage, your career, your health, your sleep.
There is no downside. There is no risk. There is no version of this where you come out worse than you went in.
At Risalatul Khayr we teach a structured self-treatment method based on Qur’an and Sunnah, built from 15 years of working directly with affected individuals.
The site has free guides on everything from how to start self-ruqyah, to understanding why your treatment is not working, to identifying marriage, career, and rizq blockages. Take the assessment now or explore the site. Either way, you might be able to find answers here you haven’t been able to find anywhere else.
If you took the screening quiz above, your result page already pointed you toward the right starting point based on your answers. If you have not taken it yet, scroll back up and do it now. It takes a few minutes and it will give you a clear picture.
Whatever your result showed, here is how the path forward works.
If you are ready to begin treating on your own, the 14-Day Self-Ruqyah Starter Plan gives you a structured daily routine you can start today. It includes the treatment method, a tracker, and a quick-start guide. You do not need anything else to begin. If you have completed the quiz this has already been emailed to you.
If you want to understand the full method first, the How to Unblock Your Life with Quran series walks you through everything step by step: how to identify your ruqyah symptoms, how to set specific intentions, how to run a session, how to use ruqyah water and oil, how to set up the practical effort track alongside your recitation, and how to track and evaluate your progress over each 14-day cycle.
If you want to understand what sihr, ayn, and jinn actually are, how they work, and the evidence for them in the Quran and Sunnah, start with The Foundations. That series gives you the theological grounding before you move into the practical method.
If your situation feels serious, long-standing, confusing, or you would simply prefer someone experienced to review your case, the How We Help page explains the professional options. These include a diagnostic assessment (a written review of your symptoms, what type of affliction the pattern points to, and where to focus) or a personalised treatment plan built around your specific case.
Your situation is not beyond the reach of the One who created you and knows every detail of what you are going through. Take the first step. The rest will follow.
Mohamed Abdullah
Risalatul Khayr