Psychotherapy is an important element in Roqya. It is a mental technique which permits to deliver the person from the sufferings she lived. When we experience something painful, it stays within us. It gives us negative feelings and abnormal reactions. Psychotherapy assists to remove these things which damage the person.
Sometimes the relation between the weakness of the person and things that she lived is obvious (for ex: since you made this accident, you are not serene any more, something changed in you); sometimes the effect is not easy to notice (for ex: somebody had some difficult in childhood, was mistreated over a long period, after he will not have a personality anymore, he does not any more manage to assert oneself, he is excessively shy or he has pleasure in nothing: in any case it can have very diverse effects).
Br. Abdullah got involved with Ruqya when several of his family members were afflicted with sihr (black magic) and jinn possession that had catastrophic impact on their lives. Unfortunately many of the local imams and shaikhs were not much help, either because they did not want to get involved or because they were not trained well enough in the field of ruqya.
