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Question No. 3304 31 August 2022 Official answer by Master Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) verified Content level: Intermediate

Can Someone Be Bewitched from a Distance Without Knowing Their Mother’s Name?

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Dear questioner, Master Ali Saei
Tracking code: #Q-3304

Peace be upon you, dear Ustad Saei.
May you, God willing, remain under the special care of our master, the Remnant of God, may God hasten his reappearance.
Someone met a person online and now feels that they are under that person’s control. They have begun to suspect that they may have been bewitched.
First, is it possible to be bewitched online, from a distance?
Second, can sorcery be performed without knowing the person’s mother’s details?
Third, what specific practice would you recommend to help them break free?

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

Can someone be bewitched from a distance without knowing their mother’s details? Yes, because sorcerers can use any identifying information to locate and affect a person. To seek relief from sorcery, it is recommended to repent, seek forgiveness—especially by reciting Imam Ali’s seventy-part supplication—remain in a state of ritual purity, engage in remembrance of God, recite a protective prayer before sleep and upon waking, and recite Supplication 17 of al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādiyya.

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

Yes. Experienced and powerful sorcerers can carry out such mischief!

**Advice and recommendations:**

Repent, turn back to God, and seek His forgiveness—preferably by reciting the seventy-part istighfar of the Commander of the Faithful, Imam Ali (peace be upon him).

Maintain ritual purity through wudu. If you are unable to do so, keep up a constant remembrance of God.

Recite this protective prayer before going to sleep and after waking:

أعوذ بعزه الله و أعوذ بقدره الله و أعوذ بجمال الله و أعوذ بسلطان الله و أعوذ بجبروت الله و أعوذ بملکوت الله و أعوذ بدفع الله و أعوذ بجمع الله و أعوذ بملک الله و أعوذ برحمه الله و أعوذ برسول الله صلى الله علیه و آله «463» من شر ما خلق «464» و ذرأ و برأ و من شر العامه و السامه و من شر فسقه الجن و الإنس و من شر فسقه العرب و العجم و من شر کل دابه فی اللیل و النهار أنت آخذ بناصیتها إن ربی على‏ صراط مستقیم‏

بسم الله و بالله و فی سبیل الله و على مله رسول الله صلى الله علیه و آله اللهم إنی أسلمت نفسی إلیک و وجهت وجهی إلیک و فوضت أمری إلیک و ألجأت ظهری إلیک رغبه منک و رهبه إلیک لا ملجأ و لا منجى منک إلا إلیک اللهم آمنت بکل کتاب أنزلته و بکل رسول أرسلته‏

Make a regular practice of reciting supplication 17 from *Al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya*.

**Supplement to #Question3304**

**Teacher, the person in question stressed the mother’s name. Is knowing the mother’s name essential for a spell to take effect?**

#Supplement_to_Answer3304

They use every possible means to reach, identify, and encode information—including the person’s mother’s name—but it is not absolutely necessary. To blind and hinder sorcerers, however, you should conceal every possible address, street, and identifying detail from them.

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