The greatest Ruqya ️

By Hisham Abu Yusuf | 2026-10-07T17:41:32.681472+00:00 | Topic: Khutbah | Masjid: Hisham Abu Yusuf

The Prophet ﷺ said, the greatest ruqya, the greatest means of protection is:

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ ٱلْفَلَقِ

And:

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ ٱلنَّاسِ

And the greatest form of self-protection is to recite it yourself, upon yourself.

Now someone came to me last week. He said, look, he took out this necklace. He said, I've been having sicknesses — cancer, bowel pains. I went to this Mufti in this country, in this village. He gave me this necklace to wear.

He still had it on. He said, since then I'm better. I said, brother, come, let's open the necklace.

We open the necklace, there's a piece of paper. We open the piece of paper — all these numbers and scribbles. I said, brother, probably his son was one day scribbling on the paper, and he decided to fold it up and write some numbers. He folded it and he gave it to you, and he made some money from you.

It's called the placebo effect. It's all in your head. The paper did nothing for you.

This is what we have become — a superstitious people. And we have expanded the realm and the power of jinn far beyond what Allah actually gave them.

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