The Hazard of Sihr (Witchcraft) and How Religion TreatsIt Using the Revelations Approach

Abstract

Witchcraft is a religiously prohibited activity since it incorporates shirk aspects such as bonding rituals, incantation, and words spoken or written to have an influence on the physical or spiritual person being bewitched without touching them. Witchcraft disorders are an illness that is still an issuefor society today since it is hard to diagnose and treat with current medical techniques.This paper aims to explain the method of treating witchcraft disorders according to the perspective of divine revelation. Content analysis of Qur’anic explanations, hadiths, interpretations, and scholarly views in this field is a basic methodology of writing.Witchcraft is a practise that tries to harm the bewitched person physically, emotionally, and spiritually. It also causes domestic problems, emotional disturbances, hatred, and other problems.Islam is a religion that places a high value on the wellbeing of its followers.The Qur’anand al-Sunnah, as religious sources with the concept of divine revelation, have provided guidance in dealing with the interference ofwitchcraft. Among the methods of treatment of magic disorders are: (1)making protection and taking care before the occurrence of witchcraft; and (2) treating witchcraft disorders that have hit a person, which includes three stages: the stage before treatment, the stage during treatment, and the stage after treatment.