Lifestyle and Medicine

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.

For businesses that have suffered a downturn because of challenges such as the coronavirus pandemic, Supplications 6, 7 and 29 from *al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādiyya* are recommended.

To make their efforts fruitful and prevent their bees from dying, beekeepers should observe spiritual guidance as well as proper beekeeping practices. This guidance includes respecting the bees’ rights, remembering that God watches over the relationship between beekeeper and bee, not taking the bees’ food, maintaining hygiene, treating bees with respect as creatures beloved by God, praying for them, and giving thanks to their Creator.

To move your thesis forward and overcome obstacles, it is recommended that you recite Supplications 1, 2, and 3 from *al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādiyya* with full presence of heart, along with the supplication “لا حول و لا قوه إلا بالله” and the Supplication of Light. With God’s help, this may bring you the result you hope for.

To dream less and keep the mind at ease, one may turn to this prayer: “My God, my Lord, You who are touched by neither sleep nor drowsiness, I entrust myself, my sleep and my dreams to You. Do not leave me to myself, asleep or awake. Grant me good dreams, and protect me from troubling dreams, the whispers of Satan, and confused, disjointed dreams.” This prayer may help protect against ominous and unsettling dreams.