Somebody has told you it is jadu, and now you cannot sleep for the questions.
Who did it. Who paid for it. Was it someone who came to the wedding. Was it your brother-in-law, your sister-in-law, the cousin who stopped calling three years ago. What exactly did they do, and where did they bury it. And underneath all of them, the one you can barely say out loud: is somebody in my own family behind this.
These are the eleven questions we are asked more than any others. Not one of them is foolish. But they do not all have answers, and knowing which ones do is the most useful thing anybody can hand you today.
Four of these questions have no answer, and that is a mercy rather than an evasion
Who did it. Who ordered it. Is someone in my family involved. Why did they do it.
Nobody can tell you. Not from your name, not from your mother's name, not from a mirror, a bowl of water, a cup of oil, or a dream somebody had about you. There is no method anywhere in the Quran or the Sunnah for identifying the person who worked sihr. A practitioner who produces a name is not reading the unseen. He is reading you — and he is usually repeating back the relative whose name you let slip on the phone ten minutes earlier.
"Whoever comes to a fortune teller and asks him about anything, his prayers are not accepted for forty nights." — Sahih Muslim 2230
"Whoever goes to a fortune teller and believes what he says has disbelieved in what was revealed to Muhammad." — Sunan Abi Dawud 3904
Read those twice. The man offering you a name is offering to cost you forty nights of accepted prayer, at the exact moment in your life when you need your prayer most.
The Prophet (peace be upon him) had sihr worked on him — and look at what he refused to do
This one narration answers four of your eleven questions at once.
Sihr was worked on the Prophet (peace be upon him) by a man named Labid ibn al-A'sam. Allah informed him — by revelation, not by divination — who had done it and where the knot was hidden. It was sent for and recovered. He recited, and Allah cured him.
So he knew the name. He knew the place. He knew the motive. And then:
"As for me, Allah has cured me, and I disliked stirring up evil among the people." — Sahih al-Bukhari 5763
He did not announce the man. He did not confront the household. He did not take revenge.
Sit with what that means. The one person in history who had certain, revealed, unarguable knowledge of who had done it chose not to act on the name, because acting on it would have set people against one another. And you are being handed a name by somebody with no knowledge at all.
We have seen what a name does to a family. A mother who will not sit in the same room as her daughter-in-law. Brothers who stopped speaking over twenty minutes of a stranger's guessing. The name is very often simply wrong. The damage never is.
So how do I know magic was done on me?
You look at patterns across weeks, not at one bad month. These are what people most commonly describe — patterns, never proof:
- A sharp, sudden aversion to one specific person, often a spouse, that you yourself recognise as irrational
- A heaviness that arrives precisely when you try to pray or listen to the Quran, felt as weight rather than as a choice
- Dreams that repeat — snakes, graveyards, heights, being chased
- Something that began abruptly, with no life event underneath it and no illness before it
- A blockage that appears in exactly the area of your life that had started going well — if that area is your income, start here
None of that is a diagnosis. The honest way to tell sihr, nazar and a medical cause apart is set out here, and the first step in it is a blood test, not a practitioner.
"What did they do?" matters far less than you have been told
People want the mechanism. Buried under a threshold, tied into a knot, sewn into a pillow, mixed into food, thrown into running water. The Quran answers every mechanism at once, in a single verse:
"What you have brought is magic. Allah will expose its falsehood. Indeed, Allah does not amend the work of corrupters." — Surah Yunus 10:81
The cure is not mechanism-specific. You do not need to know what was done for the words of Allah to undo it, any more than you need the name of a fever to bring it down. A practitioner who insists he must first discover exactly what was buried, and where, is building a story that happens to require several more visits.
How is it removed?
By the means the Prophet (peace be upon him) used, and it starts today, without anyone's permission.
- Pray your five. Everything below is weaker without it. Sihr feeds on distance, and salah is the shortest way back.
- Recite over yourself. The full method is here — Al-Fatihah, Ayat al-Kursi, the last two verses of Al-Baqarah and the three quls, blown into the hands and wiped over the body.
- Al-Baqarah in the house. "Do not turn your houses into graves. The shaytan flees from a house in which Surah Al-Baqarah is recited." — Sahih Muslim 780. How to do this without it becoming impossible.
- The morning and evening adhkar, every single day. The authentic ones, with their sources. Missing days is the most common reason people tell us nothing changed.
- Give it weeks, not days. Anyone promising a result by a fixed date is making a claim the Sharia does not permit him to make. And do not stop the day you feel better — that is the commonest reason it comes back.
Where a person genuinely cannot recite for themselves — an infant, someone very ill, someone who cannot read — that is where a written taweez has its place, and exactly what goes inside one is set out there.
How can I protect myself?
Protection in Islam is not a one-off act you purchase. It is a daily habit, and it is deliberately small enough to keep:
- Ayat al-Kursi after every obligatory prayer and before sleeping. What it actually promises
- The three quls, blown into the palms and wiped over the head and body, three times before sleep — Sahih al-Bukhari 5017
- "A'udhu bi kalimatillah at-tammati min sharri ma khalaq", three times each evening — Sahih Muslim 2708
- Seven Ajwa dates in the morning, where you can get them — Sahih al-Bukhari 5445, which names sihr specifically
How can I protect my wife and children?
A child cannot recite for themselves, so somebody recites over them. This is the dua the Prophet (peace be upon him) used for Hasan and Husayn:
"U'idhukuma bi kalimatillah at-tammah, min kulli shaytanin wa hammah, wa min kulli 'aynin lammah." — Sahih al-Bukhari 3371
Say it over them at night. Teach the older ones to say Ayat al-Kursi themselves. And close the door the harm usually walks through: teach the family to say Masha Allah, Tabarak Allah when they admire the child. Nazar on children, and what to do about it.
For your wife: recite over each other. Aisha recited over the Prophet (peace be upon him) and he recited over himself. The household that recites together is not depending on one person remembering.
How can I protect my parents and the wider family?
You cannot make an adult recite, so do not try. Do two things instead.
Recite over them when they will let you — an older parent will rarely refuse a son or daughter reciting over them at bedtime. And make the house itself the protection. Al-Baqarah recited in the home covers everyone under that roof, including the ones who would never sit down for a session.
Then make dua for them in their absence. The angel says and to you the same — Sahih Muslim 2733. It is the one protection that works at a distance and requires nobody's cooperation.
How do we stay protected in the future?
By making it boring. The families who write to us a year later and say it has not come back are never the ones who did something dramatic once. They are the ones who kept ten minutes of adhkar in the morning and ten at night, kept Al-Baqarah playing in the house a few times a week, and kept praying on time.
Protection is not a wall you build once. It is a lamp you keep lit.
What we will not do
We will not tell you a name. Not for any reason, and not if you ask for one directly — there is no way to know it, and the family it would break is yours and not ours.
We will not read your situation from your name or your mother's name, because there is no basis for that in the Quran or the Sunnah.
We do not work with jinn. Shariah does not permit using them for our tasks, and a practitioner who does has left the method entirely, whatever he chooses to call it. Anything we write carries the words of Allah, His names, Quranic numbers and Durood Sharif, and nothing else.
What we will do is read what you actually write, answer from the Quran and authentic narrations with the source named so you can check it yourself, and tell you plainly when what you are describing sounds like something a doctor should see first.
Write to us here. Your message stays private, and you get a Request ID so you can read the reply yourself rather than have it sitting in a chat list on a shared phone.
Sources
- Sahih al-Bukhari 5763 — the sihr worked on the Prophet (peace be upon him), and his refusal to stir up evil
- Sahih Muslim 2230; Sunan Abi Dawud 3904 — going to a fortune teller
- Quran 10:81 — Allah does not amend the work of corrupters
- Quran 2:102; Surah Al-Falaq 113; Surah An-Nas 114
- Sahih Muslim 780 — Surah Al-Baqarah in the house
- Sahih al-Bukhari 3371 — the refuge sought for Hasan and Husayn
- Sahih al-Bukhari 5017 — the three quls before sleep
- Sahih al-Bukhari 5445 — seven Ajwa dates
- Sahih Muslim 2708, 2733 — the evening refuge, and dua in a person's absence