What Is the Proper Islamic Method to Dispose of an Amulet Afflicted with Black Magic?
Answered by Mawlana Ilyas Patel
Question
What is the proper Islamic method to dispose of an amulet proven to be afflicted with black magic? Should it simply be discarded, or is there a specific way to destroy it?
Answer
In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate.
I pray you are in good faith and health. Thank you for your question.
It would be better to bury it in normal ground, slightly digging it up and covering it with soil to be safe and avoid any future doubts.
General Etiquette for Disposal of Islamic Literature
How to bury Islamic literature:
- Wrap the literature in a pure cloth
- Bury it in a place where people don’t walk
- In hot climates, dig a Lahd grave (grave that has an incision in the side wall, customary in hot climate countries where the earth is solid) has an incision in the side wall
- In cold climates, dig a Shiq grave (a grave with a straight opening, common in cold climate countries due to the earth being soft) and place a slab over it first.
- If the literature is the Quran, you can also fasten it with a heavy object and place it in flowing water. [Ibn ‘Abidin, Radd al-Muhtar]
Other ways to dispose of Islamic literature
- Throw it in the river or sea
- Erase the sacred writing and recycle the paper.
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I pray this helps with your question.
Wassalam,
[Mawlana] Ilyas Patel
Checked and Approved by Shaykh Abdul-Rahim Reasat
Mawlana Ilyas Patel has received traditional education in various countries. He started his schooling in the UK and completed his hifz of the Quran in India. After that, he joined an Islamic seminary in the UK, where he studied secular and Aalimiyya sciences. Later, he traveled to Karachi, Pakistan, and other Middle Eastern countries to further his education. Mawlana has served as an Imam in the Republic of Ireland for several years and taught the Quran and other Islamic sciences to both children and adults. He also worked as a teacher and librarian at a local Islamic seminary in the UK for 12 years. Presently, he lives in the UK with his wife and is interested in books and gardening.
