245. Is It Allowed To Place Your Hand Over Yourself When We Recite Any Dua?

By Asma Bint Shameem

 It’s allowed to place your hand over yourself or over someone else and read duaas of protection. 

You can blow directly on yourself or them when reading the mu’awidhaat. 

Or you could blow in your cupped hands and wipe them  over yourself or someone else. 

It is proven from the Sunnah that the Prophet sal Allaahu Alayhi wa sallam would either wipe over the person or blow over them and read Ruqyah. 

‘Aa’ishah radhi Allaahu anhaa said: 

“If one of his family fell sick, the Messenger of Allaah 

Sal Allaahu Alaiyhi wa Sallam would blow over him and recite al-Mu’awwidhaat. When he fell sick with his final illness, I started to blow over him and wipe him with his own hand, because it was more blessed than my hand. [al-Bukhaari (5735) and Muslim (2192)]

So you can wipe your hand over the face, chest and stomach for yourself or for someone else as the Prophet Sal Allaahu Alaiyhi wa Sallam used to do.

When reading ruqyah for a sick person, you can sit near their head so that you will be breathing over him as you recite the ruqyah. 

And it’s even ok to blow lightly on the face with a little saliva whilst doing that. 

Ibn al-Qayyim said: 

“The ruqyah comes from the heart and mouth of the one who is reciting ruqyah, so if it is accompanied with some of his saliva and breath, that will have a stronger effect.”

Zaad al-Ma’aad (4/164). 

And Allaah knows best