Some of what people attribute to affliction is also what a treatable and sometimes urgent illness looks like. Get seen today, not next week, for any of these. Hearing or seeing what others do not, especially if it is new or in more than one sense at once. Not sleeping for several nights with energy that feels raised rather than drained. Not eating or drinking. Confusion that comes and goes, or a sudden change in someone who was well yesterday. Fits, collapse or loss of consciousness. Any new symptom after a head injury, a fever, a new medicine, or in pregnancy or after birth. Any thought of ending your life or of harming someone else, which is an emergency now. And if you have been told to stop a medicine so that the treatment can work, please speak to your doctor before you stop, because stopping suddenly is dangerous by itself whatever the cause turns out to be.
Lesson 4 of 6
Somewhere along the way this turned into a fork. Ruqyah or medicine. Trust in Allah or a prescription. Pick one, and the pick says something about your faith.
That fork is not in the texts. It is worth saying flatly, because a lot of people have made a hard decision on the strength of it, and some of them are still paying for that decision.
What is in the texts is the opposite, and it is not subtle. It is a command.