Islamic Exorcism

in islam, the correct way to perform the exorcism is through ruqyah which includes specific verses of the holy quran and all lawful incantations that prophet muhammad (sallalaho-alehe-wasallam) himself told us in hadith or performed in his lifetime. a prominent hadith quoted by imam muslim in the compiled hadiths of sahi muslim says: “present to me those who provide curing by the way of ruqyah. there is no objection with it as long as it does not contain any polytheism” also, it is important to understand islam clearly forbids magic. for muslims, sihir is haram in all of its forms and there is no good or bad or black and white magic. there are two categories of people; the agents of shaytan who perform magic, that have jinns under their control which they use for evil purposes and then the pure souls who believe in allah and perform ruqyah. the prophet muhammad himself had magic done on him and performed ruqyah by the will of allah. raqis are people who follow this sunnah of the prop