WHAT IS A TAWEEZ Taweez is a Talisman. Or to put it in another way, Taweez is a Charm.

WHAT IS A TAWEEZ

Taweez is a Talisman. Or to put it in another way, Taweez is a Charm.

There are numerous kinds of Taweez. There is one kind which consists of writing Verses of the Quran on a piece of paper or other material. Small rugs are available which have the Ayat ul Kursi (Quran: Chapter 2, Al Baqara, Verse 255) on them. Alternatively the Ayat ul Kursi is printed in beautiful Arabic calligraphy and framed as a photograph. Yet another form is available where it is moulded in plastic with a clock fitted inside this plastic. All these forms of Verse – Ayat ul Kursi, in rugs, in picture frames and in clocks can even be obtained in Saudi Arabia, a country whose majority of population do not believe in Taweez.

AVAILABILITY OF TAWEEZ

The majority of people in this day and age just copy a Taweez from a book without following the sequence and they charge money for this service. They sell the Ayats – Verses of the Quran for a small gain. Yet they have no knowledge of how the Taweez is made or how the squares need to be filled.

Since they lack the knowledge of the Taweez, they copy the Taweez without checking that the Taweez is correct or it has errors.

These days a lot of books are being printed with Taweez in them. These books are being printed for monetary reasons only. They are not checked by any person who understands Taweez. They are usually full of errors. And then these doubtful Taweez are copied by equally greedy people to give to other people who come to them. The former make their living out of copying Taweez for the latter.

USAGE OF TAWEEZ

The rug, or the picture frame or the clock with the Ayat ul Kursi are hung on a wall in one of the rooms of the house. Why? Because the Ayat ul Kursi offers protection from all kinds of evil and disasters.

Is it not ironic that the people who say “BIDAH” when it comes to Taweez, that they hang these rugs and clocks in a house to protect it? They want to protect from evil and disasters the house that is made of bricks. When it comes to protecting the REAL HOUSE which is the human body, the house of the soul, they say “BIDAH” when someone carries the Ayat ul Kursi on their person! Yet on death, the house made of bricks is left behind, and the house that was inhabited by the soul is buried like a treasure.

It is unlawful to write a Taweez to sow discord between husband and wife as it is clearly stated in Chapter 2 Al Baqara in the Quran Majeed. Generally, it is totally forbidden to write a Taweez which is against Shariat. Yet there are people out there who will do anything for money. Both the instigator and the writer of harmful Taweez will be punished by Allah in this world and the next world.

DO TAWEEZ REALLY WORK?

Let us learn a very simple lesson from science first. We have all come across the term ‘DNA’.

The DNA molecule is the genetic code for every cell. And this code is the determining factor in the behavior of a living organism.

Each molecule of DNA consists of three things namely:

1 Sugar molecule

2 Phosphate group

3 One of four different Nitrogen compounds

Furthermore, with Genetic Engineering, an organism’s genetic, or hereditary, material is altered to eliminate undesirable characteristics or to produce desirable new ones.

The above does not answer the question whether Taweez really work. The short answer is YES! They do work. How do they work? To answer that, we need look at the Quran and Hadees.

First of all, we are told in the Quran:

WA NUNAZ ZILU MIN AL QURANI MA HUWA SHIFAA UN WA RAHMATUL LIL MOOMINEENA WA LA YA ZEEDUZ ZALIMEENA ILLA KHASARA(N)

82 We sent down in the Quran that which is a healing and a mercy to those who believe: to the unjust it causes nothing but loss after loss

[QURAN: BANI ISRAEEL, CHAPTER 17]

If scientists can perform genetic engineering and alter the behavioural pattern, so can the Quran as proven above from the Quran. If that is not enough then we can see the DNA code mentioned in Hadees:

Rasool Allah, the true and truly inspired said, “(The matter of the Creation of) a human being is put together in the womb of the mother in forty days, and then he becomes a clot of thick blood for a similar period, and then a piece of flesh for a similar period. Then Allah sends an angel who is ordered to write four things. He is ordered to write down his (i.e. the new creature’s) deeds, his livelihood, his (date of) death, and whether he will be blessed or wretched (in religion). Then the soul is breathed into him. So, a man amongst you may do (good deeds till there is only a cubit between him and Paradise and then what has been written for him decides his behaviour and he starts doing (evil) deeds characteristic of the people of the (Hell) Fire. And similarly a man amongst you may do (evil) deeds till there is only a cubit between him and the (Hell) Fire, and then what has been written for him decides his behaviour, and he starts doing deeds characteristic of the people of Paradise.”

[Sahih Bukhari]

Note in the above reference the period of 40 days is mentioned three times. Then we are told that the angel is ordered to write four things. Did we not find a similar description for the DNA above? Remember that the DNA is yesterday’s discovery. The Quran and Hadees date back 14 centuries.

Another Hadees comes to mind in which Hadrat Aisha (radhiallah) the mother of the believers was asked to describe the qualities and manners of Allah’s Rasool (saws):

Hadrat Aisha (radhiallah) said: The quality and manner of Allah’s Rasool (saws) were the Quran.

[Tabaqaat, Ibn Saad]

In the above line there is secret being revealed.

This secret is further clarified by Imam Ghazzali (ra) who wrote in his Tahsin al Zunun:

Say to my friends, when they look upon me, dead,

Weeping for me and mourning me in sorrow

Do not believe that this corpse you see is my self.

In the name of Allah (swt), I tell you, it is not I,

I am a spirit, this is nothing but flesh

It was my abode and my garment for a time

I am a treasure, by a talisman kept hid,

Fashioned of dust, which served me as a shrine,

I am a pearl, which has left its shell deserted,

It was my prison, where I spent my time in grief.

I am a bird, and this body is my cage.

From which I have now flown forth and it is left as a token,

Praise to Allah, Who has now set me free.

And prepared for me my place in the highest of the heavens.

Until today I was dead, though alive in your midst.

Now I live in truth, with the grave clothes discarded

Today I converse with the saints above

Now, with no veil between, I see Allah face to face

I look upon the Lawh al Mahfuz and therein I read,

Whatever was and is and all that is to be.

Let my house fall in ruins, lay my cage in the ground,

Cast away the talisman, it is a token, no more.

Lay aside my cloak, it was but my outer garment.

Place them all in the grave, let them be forgotten.

I have passed on my way and you are left behind.

Your place of abode was no dwelling place for me.

Think not that death is death, no, it is life,

A life that surpasses all we could dream of here,

While in this world, here we are granted sleep,

Death is but sleep, sleep that shall be prolonged.

Do not be afraid when death draws near,

It is but departure for this blessed home.

Think of the mercy and love of your Lord,

Give thanks for His grace and come without fear.

What I am now, even so shall you be,

For I know that you are even as I am.

The souls of all men come forth from Allah,

The bodies of all are compounded alike

Good and evil, alike it was ours.

I give you now a message of good cheer

May Allah’s peace and joy for evermore be yours.

May Allah Bless Imam Ghazzali (ra) for leaving a treasure of literature for the Muslim community.

From the above references it is clear that the human body is in reality a Taweez itself. The human body is the Quran. In other words, the human body is the 28 letters from Alif to Ya. It keeps the spirit trapped for the time that Allah has ordained for it with that body. Only, at the expiry date is the spirit freed from the body.

Therefore when some of the ‘letters’ in the human body become corrupted by following Shaytan, a Taweez is used to put those ‘letters’ back in their proper places. We are all quite ready to believe in genetic engineering, but even after Allah tells us in the Quran that the Quran is a healing and mercy, some people will deny that Taweez are part of Islam.

Taweez must only be used for healing and good. To answer the question Do Taweez Really Work? Yes they do work.