Hypnotherapy

QUESTION:

A person has health issues and wants to correct his eating habits through hypnosis. Will this be permissible?

ANSWER:

Hypnosis is an unnatural means of acquiring cure for illnesses, and many of these types of treatments border on wrong beliefs. Hence, we advise abstention. If you would like to control your eating habits, then you could consider intermittent fasting.

عَنْ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ رَضِيَ اَللَّهُ عَنْهَا عَنْ اَلنَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ: إِنَّ اَللَّهَ لَمْ يَجْعَلْ شِفَاءَكُمْ فِيمَا حَرَّمَ عَلَيْكُمْ

Umm Salamah Radiallahu Anha narrated that Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said: “Allah did not make your cure in such things that He made Haraam (unlawful) upon you.”

ALLAH TA’ALA ALONE IN HIS INFINITE KNOWLEDGE KNOWS BEST!

ANSWERED BY:

Mufti Abdul Kader Fazlani

Date: 20 Rabi-ul-Aakhir 1447 / 13 October 2025

CHECKED AND APPROVED BY:

Mufti Yacoob Vally Saheb