Does the Quran Mention Anything About Healing Stones?
Answered by Shaykh Abdul-Rahim Reasat
Question: Assalamu alaykum
Does the Quran mention anything about healing stones/crystals? I know someone who specially gets stones from Afghanistan that is said to have healing properties or properties that help clear the mind and let you focus better.
Answer: Wa ‘alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah wa barakatuh
Thank you for your question.
The Qurʾan does not mention healing stones and crystals. As Muslims we believe that nothing can benefit or cause harm except Allah, and all forms of healing are, in reality, Allah’s action. (al-Sanusi, Shah al-Muqaddimat).
Many stones, forms of salt, etc have physical properties which affect people and other things in various ways. Denying this would be to deny the clearly observable; one may benefit from them whilst seeing that the benefit comes from Allah alone. Using them is permissible if one does not believe they intrinsically cause any benefit, and Allah should be thanked for what one does see of benefit.
May Allah grant you the best of both worlds.
Wassalam,
[Shaykh] Abdul-Rahim Reasat
Shaykh Abdul-Rahim Reasat began his studies in Arabic Grammar and Morphology in 2005. After graduating with a degree in English and History he moved to Damascus in 2007 to study and sit at the feet of some of the most erudite scholars of our time.
Over the following eighteen months he studied a traditional curriculum, studying with scholars such as Shaykh Adnan Darwish, Shaykh Abdurrahman Arjan, Shaykh Hussain Darwish and Shaykh Muhammad Darwish.
In late 2008 he moved to Amman, Jordan, where he continued his studies for the next six years, in Fiqh, Usul al-Fiqh, Theology, Hadith Methodology and Commentary, Shama’il, and Logic with teachers such as Dr Ashraf Muneeb, Dr Salah Abu’l-Hajj, Dr Hamza al-Bakri, Shaykh Ahmad Hasanat, Dr Mansur Abu Zina amongst others. He was also given two licences of mastery in the science of Qur’anic recital by Shakh Samir Jabr and Shaykh Yahya Qandil.
His true passion, however, arose in the presence of Shaykh Ali Hani, considered by many to be one of the foremost tafsir scholars of our time who provided him with the keys to the vast knowledge of the Quran. With Shaykh Ali, he was able to study an extensive curriculum of Qur’anic Sciences, Tafsir, Arabic Grammar, and Rhetoric.
When he finally left Jordan for the UK in 2014, Shaykh Ali gave him his distinct blessing and still recommends students in the UK to seek out Shaykh Abdul-Rahim for Quranic studies. Since his return he has trained as a therapist and has helped a number of people overcome emotional and psychosomatic issues. He is a keen promoter of emotional and mental health.
