Ruling on learning magic and removing spells from a person affected by magic

Ruling on learning magic and removing spells from a person affected by magic

Is it permissible to learn how to remove spells from a person affected by magic?

 

Praise be to Allaah. 

If
that is by doing something permissible, such as reciting du’aa’s that
are prescribed or permitted in Islam, or by using a ruqyah that is prescribed
in Islam, there is nothing wrong with that. But if a person learns magic
in order to counteract magic, or for any other purposes, then that is
not permitted and in fact is something which nullifies a person’s Islam,
because it is not possible to learn it without falling into shirk. That
happens by worshipping the shayaateen (devils), by offering sacrifices
to them and making vows to them, and other kinds of worship, and offering
sacrifices to them and seeking to draw close to them with things that
they love, until they serve a person and do what he wants. This is the
mutual benefit which Allaah refers to in the aayah (interpretation of
the meaning):

“And
on the Day when He will gather them (all) together (and say): ‘O you
assembly of jinn! Many did you mislead of men,’ and their Awliyaa’ (friends
and helpers) amongst men will say: ‘Our Lord! We benefited one from
the other, but now we have reached our appointed term which You did
appoint for us.’ He will say: ‘The Fire be your dwelling place, you
will dwell therein forever, except as Allaah may will. Certainly your
Lord is All-Wise, All-Knowing.’”

[al-An’aam
6:128]

 

Majmoo’ah Fataawa wa Maqaalaat li’l-Shaykh Ibn Baaz, p. 118