WHO IS SHEIKH BEN HALIMA ABDERRAOUF?

Sheikh Ben Halima Abderraouf was born in Tunisia in 1967 from a Tunisian father and an American mother.

He grew up in both cultures until he embraced Islam at the age of fifteen. He since engaged in learning and teaching Islam through student, youth and da’wa organisations. He continued his studies in France in 1986 where he settled. A statistical and economic engineer and Olympic mathematical champion, he also memorised Qur’aan on his own and achieved a master degree in Arabic.

After tremendous experience in da’wa in various communities and countries, he gave his full time to Islamic activities from 1995 and founded a French Islamic publishing house where he wrote, translated and edited 20 books, including the translation of Hayatus Sahabah.

Sheikh Ben Halima Abderraouf has been practicing Ruqyah professionally since 1997 and from 2005 spends most of the year in tours and campaigns explaining Ruqyah and shirk issues, treating, training and establishing Ruqyah centres throughout the world.

It is important to note that Sheikh Ben Halima Abderraouf does not ascribe to the constituents of Amaliyyaat which at times may/may not involve the use of Taweez and other such activities/constituents which do not have a solid footing in terms of evidence from Qur’aan and Sunnah.

It is also important to note that the science of Ruqyah is a developing one, and Raaqis (people who practice Ruqyah) develop new trends and methods over time. The developing trends can be adaptable.

Therefore, advice and verdicts is required by and sought from Muslim scholars that specialise in the field of Fiqh to authenticate these new developing methods.

Alhamdulillah, Sheikh Ben Halima Abderraouf has sought such council from various Ulama nationally and internationally and many of them have recommended and approved his method of Ruqyah.

Allah Ta’ala has ensured much success with this method that many have inculcated his method of Ruqyah in their lives, media organisations have promoted his works and have hosted him on numerous occasions with interviews linked to his method of Ruqyah, centres have been established worldwide and Ulama Councils have authenticated his works and method.

Activities of da’wa and tabligh really shaped Sheikh Ben Halima Abderraouf's training in spirituality, predication and group management. His first three days outing was in England in 1983 when he was sixteen, then first forty days in 1987 in Pakistan.

Since then he did 19 times “forty days” in addition to the four months, and even learnt Urdu to have direct contact with leaders.

The da'wah and tabligh activity is a unique framework to understand the effort of the Nabi  . The tabligh is often blamed to be an “old fashioned” way of predication and people think it should take advantage of modern techniques therefore missing the point of tablighs goal and spirit. The tabligh is not a predication structure but a training one, and you will not be trained by preaching on radio or in newspaper, but by facing all kinds of people in the streets, by being belittled any time you are aggressed or humiliated, by searching all kinds of wisdoms to touch peoples’ heart and by imploring Allah every night to guide them.

This is the training that matches most of Sahaaba (RA) which reproduces the Nabis’ s.a.w life and enables us to live the Qur’aan.

OUR OBJECTS AND VISIONS

The objectives of Ruqyah under the banner of Sheikh ben Halima are:

1. To help people who are suffering in life due to magic, Jinn and Evil eye (Nazr).

2. To protect the Imaan and Aqeedah (beliefs) of Muslims from shirk.

3. Da’wah to non muslims who come for Ruqyah

4. To fight shirk, magic and sorcerers

5. To break the business of Aamils or Raaqis who charge too much and keep Ruqyah a secret.

6. To assist the community socially as many people stuck in substance abuse, prostitiution, crime etc have magic done to them to ruin their lives.

7. Our vision is to eradicate shirk from the lives of people and bring total reliance in Allah also to have at least one raaqi per home or family. Insha Allah

The method of Sheikh Ben Halima Abderraouf is simple and is offered to anyone who wants to learn, treat himself, his family and or others.

In this way it is a Jihad, a struggle for the sake of Allah. You are also being oppressed and the dua of the oppressed is always answered and you must stand up all night making salaah and dua so it must work. You must take dua very seriously.

An example, is how a saahir (magician) makes knots on a person many times and when the person tries to remove the knots it will take time because the knots are tied over and over again and the sihr (magic) will be complicated and this is how the saahir will become famous and improve his business. You can see that the saahir will spend the whole night making the sihr and praying to Shaytaan (or their gods) yet we cannot spend one night praying to Allah, yet we expect the help and protection from Allah.

The thing is that if the people working for Shaytaan are ready to make all sorts of sacrifices for Shaytaan then we must be ready to make many sacrifices for Allah, otherwise this is how they are going to beat us. We have the truth and we have Qur’aan but we are not working hard with it.

As a Muslim how can we be afraid of Shaytaan and sorcerers? Sorcerers pray over and over to Shaytaan and all he does is just give them very little power so if you are not afraid of Shaytaan then why be afraid of the very little power of a sorcerer. Remember that whatever you do for Islam, Shaytaan will fight you.

If you look at the people making Sihr – they are not afraid of Allah or people and are so proud and will even admit to you that they even made sihr on you but we the ones who pray to Allah and believe in Allah yet we are afraid of them. This is how they beat us. The work of Ruqyah is to fight against Shaytaan for surely he has waged war against man from the beginning of creation of man until Qiyaamah. May Allah help and protect us.