Assalaam Alaikum. There are moments in life when everything seems unexplainable, your heart feels heavy, and your body feels drained without a medical explanation. Your sleep is disturbed. Your affairs feel blocked. Your relationships strain for no clear reason. You pray, but you feel distracted. You plan, but things collapse. And you hear people saying you need to perform Ruqyah for the evil eye or perform Ruqyah for black magic.
Yes, they are right. Quietly, silently, many Muslims endure this confusion without speaking to anyone. But when you see people advising you on this, it is important that you work towards it. You go to those who perform Ruqyah, they will look for the signs and symptoms or ask you questions to affirm that you need to perform Ruqyah for the evil eye or Ruqyah for black magic.
Allah tells us clearly that this life is not governed only by what the eyes can see. There is al-ghayb, the unseen realm and its effects can manifest in the seen world. The evil eye is real. Siḥr (black magic) is real. Their impact is real. But Allah’s protection is more real, more powerful, and more complete. Allah made us know that Iblis and his soldiers (Jinn) see us while we don’t see them…
O children of Adam, let not Satan tempt you as he removed your parents from Paradise, stripping them of their clothing to show them their private parts. Indeed, he sees you, he and his tribe, from where you do not see them. Indeed, We have made the devils allies to those who do not believe. (Q 7:27)
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:
“The evil eye is real, and if anything were to overtake the divine decree, it would be the evil eye.” (Sahih Muslim)
Our Prophet ﷺ. He affirmed the reality of the evil eye, although he has taught us some of the ways to cure it. nd in the Qur’an, Allah tells us about those who seek refuge in harmful magic, stating,
“And they [the magicians] do not harm anyone through it except by permission of Allah.” (Surah Al-Baqarah 2:102)
First: The afflictions of the evil eye (al-‘ayn) and black magic (as-sihr) are realities from the Unseen (al-ghayb), affirmed by our ‘Aqeedah. They are not mere superstitions of the ignorant. To deny them is to contradict the clear texts of the Qur’an and Sunnah. Belief in them is part of belief in the Unseen, which Allah praises the believers for.
Second, and this is where your heart must find its anchor: Allah’s power, mercy, and protection are infinitely stronger. The very fact that Allah informed us of these ailments means He has also provided the cure. Magic has no independent power; it operates only by Allah’s ultimate will and decree (al-qadr), as a test for the believer. And for every test, Allah sends down a key, which is Ruqyah.
Let us be utterly clear. Ruqyah is not a folk ritual, not a whisper of superstition. It is a great act of worship, a weapon of the believer forged from the Words of our Creator. It is the ultimate manifestation of tawakkul (trust in Allah); you actively use the means He prescribed while your heart is utterly dependent on Him for the outcome. You are not turning to stones, charms, or soothsayers. You are turning directly to Allah with His own speech.
Yet, I see the confusion and fear in the community. Some suffer in silence, ashamed or thinking it a weakness of faith to be affected. Others, in desperation, fall into the hands of fraudsters and fortune-tellers, a path that leads to greater ruin, as the Prophet ﷺ warned,
“Whoever goes to a fortune-teller and asks him about something, his prayer will not be accepted for forty days.” (Sahih Muslim 2230).
The only way forward is to tell people the spiritual way to counter the effect of spiritual attack outlined in the Islamic Shariah. Ibn ‘Abbas reported Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) as saying
The influence of an evil eye is a fact; if anything would precede the destiny it would be the influence of an evil eye, and when you are asked to take bath (as a cure) from the influence of an evil eye, you should take bath. (Sahih Muslim, 2188)
Let’s look into the Islamic way to perform Ruqyah for the evil eye and Ruqyah for black magic.
How to perform ruqyah for the evil eye and ruqyah for black magic?
1. Bathing as a Cure for the Evil Eye
There is a clear, authentic Sunnah that establishes bathing as a treatment for the evil eye. This is when we know the exact person who did this harm or has an evil eye. We are going to tell the person to wash his body and pour the water over the person afflicted. The evidence is the incident of Sahl ibn Ḥunayf (رضي الله عنه).
Sahl ibn Ḥunayf (رضي الله عنه) was bathing, and ʿĀmir ibn Rabīʿah (رضي الله عنه) saw him and admired his appearance, saying something akin to admiration without invoking Allah’s name. Immediately, Sahl collapsed and fell severely ill.
When this was reported to the Prophet ﷺ, he said:
“Why would one of you kill his brother? If you see something that pleases you, then say ‘Mā shāʾ Allāh.’”
Then the Prophet ﷺ commanded ʿĀmir ibn Rabīʿah to perform ghusl, and that water was poured over Sahl, after which he recovered instantly by Allah’s permission. This narration is reported by Imam Mālik, Ahmad, and others, and authenticated by scholars such as Imam al-Albānī (رحمه الله).
2. Perform Ruqyah for the evil eye and Ruqyah for black magic through reciting Ayatul Ruqyah
My dear brother, my dear sister, if there is one method that sits at the very heart of Islam when we speak about healing, protection, and spiritual cure, it is ruqyah through the recitation of the Ayataul Ruqyah itself from the Quran and Sunnah. When you seek to perform ruqyah for the evil eye or you are searching sincerely for an effective ruqyah for black magic, then seek this means always. Allah states that…
“And We send down from the Qur’an that which is a healing and a mercy for the believers.” (Sūrah al-Isrāʾ 17:82)
The Ayatul Ruqyah includes Sūrat al-Fātiḥah, Āyat al-Kursī (2:255), Sūrat al-Baqarah (2:285–286) and many others from the Quran and Sunnah that you can find in the full article of Ayataul Ruqyah. One of the strongest pieces of evidence comes from a famous incident reported in Sahih Bukhari, which is when a group of the Companions passed by a tribe whose leader had been stung.
Narrated Abu Sa`id Al-Khudri: Some of the companions of the Prophet (ﷺ) came across a tribe amongst the tribes of the Arabs, and that tribe did not entertain them. While they were in that state, the chief of that tribe was bitten by a snake (or stung by a scorpion).
They said, (to the companions of the Prophet (ﷺ) ), “Have you got any medicine with you or anybody who can treat with Ruqya?” The Prophet’s companions said, “You refuse to entertain us, so we will not treat (your chief) unless you pay us for it.”
So they agreed to pay them a flock of sheep. One of them (the Prophet’s companions) started reciting Surat-al-Fatiha and gathering his saliva and spitting it (at the snake-bite). The patient got cured and his people presented the sheep to them, but they said,
“We will not take it unless we ask the Prophet (whether it is lawful).” When they asked him, he smiled and said, “How do you know that Surat-al-Fatiha is a Ruqya?
The Prophet ﷺ did not object. He approved it. This is a direct prophetic endorsement of ruqyah through Qur’anic recitation.
If Sūrat al-Fātiḥah can cure a physical ailment, then its effect on the evil eye and black magic, which are spiritual afflictions, is even more established.
(Sahih al-Bukhari, 5736)
Another piece of evidence is the Ruqyah that Angel Jibril performed on our Prophet ﷺ. When the Prophet ﷺ fell ill, Jibrīl عليه السلام, the angel of revelation, came down with Ruqyah and recited it on him.
Aisha reported: If the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, was afflicted by something, the Angel Gabriel would supplicate over him, saying, “In the name of Allah, may he cure you, may he heal you from every ailment, from the evil of the envier when he envies, and from the evil of every eye.”
Source: Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 2185
3. Perform Ruqyah for the evil eye and Ruqyah for black magic over oneself
What we’re used to in our society is that Ruqyah should be performed by a Raq,i but there are some we can try to perform personally by ourselves once we see some of the signs of being affected by black magic. Learning to perform ruqyah for the evil eye and ruqyah for black magic over yourself is not just an option, but a fundamental prophetic practice, a daily spiritual hygiene more essential than your physical cleanliness.
Our Mother of the Believers, Aisha (رضي الله عنه), narrated that when the Prophet (ﷺ) fell ill, he would recite the Mu’awwidhat (Surah Al-Falaq and An-Nas) over himself and blow. When the pain intensified, Aisha would recite over him and wipe with his hand for its blessing. (Sahih al-Bukhari).
Other means to perform Ruqyah for the evil eye and Ruqyah for black magic over oneself
- Reciting the Ayatul Ruyah inside water ,drinking from it, and bathing with it
- Reciting the Ayatul Ruyah inside water mixed with sidr leaves, and drink from it and bathe with it
Know that the effects of magic, the evil eye, and spiritual ailments are real, but they are created effects, subject to the will of Allah. The Quran and the authentic supplications are a divine, supernatural cure that breaks these created effects by the permission of their Creator.
So if you feel delayed, do not despair. Strengthen your īmān. Purify your heart. Guard your ṣalāh. Abandon sins quietly weakening your soul. Ruqyah works best in a heart that is humble, patient, and firmly attached to Allah.
We ask Allah to remove every harm caused by the evil eye, every trace of black magic, and every hidden affliction seen and unseen.
