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Question No. 3277 31 August 2022 Official answer by Master Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) verified Content level: Intermediate

Can hearing loss be treated through devotional prayer?

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Dear questioner, Master Ali Saei
Tracking code: #Q-3277

Respected Master, one of your followers has a question. Please advise.

Greetings and respect,

I am Heshmat Seyyed Mousavi, born in 1349.

For about ten years, I have been suffering from hearing loss. At first, my ears would become blocked, as it were, and my hearing would diminish somewhat. This was more or less resolved with antihistamines and antibiotics. But I suffered two episodes of sudden deafness. The first time, some of my hearing gradually returned. The second time, after treatment with corticosteroids and antivirals, my hearing returned to the point where I could use an in-the-ear hearing aid. After a while, however, I began losing the hearing in my right ear. It would return after corticosteroid injections into the ear, until eventually my right ear no longer responded even to a hearing aid. Until just last week, I could still hear a little with a behind-the-ear hearing aid in my left ear. A doctor also recommended surgery on the ear bones, but during the operation they found that the bones were healthy.

Now I cannot hear at all.

I humbly ask for your special prayers, from your pure spirit.

For now, I recite لااله الا الله 5,000 times every day, and each night I join a group on Instagram in reciting one hundred صلوات as a group. I also meditate four times a day…

Hoping for healing.

The essence and first answer at a glance (60-word summary)

To address hearing loss, it is recommended to join the Mishkat Caregivers’ devotional prayer group and recite the first supplication of al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādiyya. Reciting verses from the Noble Qur’an and repeating “لا اله الا الله” many times, together with blessings upon the Prophet and meditation, may also contribute to healing.

Answer by Master Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat)

Teacher and researcher in the intellectual tradition of wisdom and the Ahl al-Bayt | Soroush Bamdadān Cultural Center

Please coordinate with Mr. Javani to join the Muraqibin group at Meshkat!

Don’t forget the first supplication of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya.

A Baqirī remedy, with hope of healing:

عن أبی جعفر محمد بن علی الباقر ع: أن رجلا شکا إلیه صمما فقال امسح یدک علیه و اقرأ علیه

A man complained to Imam al-Baqir (peace be upon him) that he was hard of hearing. The Imam said, “Pass your hand over your ear and recite:

لو أنزلنا هذا القرآن على‏ جبل لرأیته خاشعا متصدعا من خشیه الله و تلک الأمثال نضربها للناس لعلهم یتفکرون هو الله الذی لا إله إلا هو عالم الغیب و الشهاده هو الرحمن الرحیم هو الله الذی لا إله إلا هو الملک القدوس السلام المؤمن المهیمن العزیز الجبار المتکبر سبحان الله عما یشرکون هو الله الخالق البارئ المصور له الأسماء الحسنى‏ یسبح له ما فی السماوات و الأرض و هو العزیز الحکیم‏

Ṭibb al-Aʾimma (Peace Be upon Them), p. 23.

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