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Amulet business flourishes amid high demand for going abroad

Amulet business flourishes amid high demand for going abroad

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28 Jun 2022 - 18:37
Amulet business flourishes amid high demand for going abroad
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28 Jun 2022 - 18:37

KABUL (Pajhwok): Lately many people have been approaching amulet makers for solution to their problems and acceleration of their trip process to foreign countries, with amulet writers charging consumers up to 10,000 afghanis.

Amulet writing and palmistry is practiced in Afghanistan since centuries despite the religion of Islam has prohibited this practice.

People often refer to amulet makers for resolution to their problems, treatment of different health issues, becoming well-off, to increase love between wife and husband, improve business and other things.

Pajhwok Afghan News learned that these days the business of amulet writers has flourished as individuals who want to accelerate their process to foreign nations paid over 10,000 afs against one amulet.

SeemaGul, 55, who sat in front of an amulet writer named Bibi Haji Nafeesa in KhairKhana locality, said: “In order to accelerate the foreign trip related activities of my son, I have come here. I often come here but it yielded no result so far.”

Nafeesa told Seema Gul “It will be done if God wills.” She added the US has just announced that people with SIV (special immigrant visa) cases would be accepted all.

Madina, 30, is one of the many who arrived near Sher Agha, a well-known amulet writer, and said she was desperate to reach Sher Agha and get amulet for her problem: “It is my fourth time that I come here but my problem remains unresolved. I have SIV case which is in trouble so I came here to get help. I have already paid 10,000 afs.”

Najeeba, 23, another girl who arrived next to an amulet writer in the Thaimani area said: “I have completed 12th class and want to go to Germany for higher education. My mother came here in the past to get an amulet for my brother’s trip to foreign country. This amulet writer wrote some verses on a paper and told him that your trip had been locked and would be open after the amulet taking.”

She said their economy was not goodl and the amulet writer did not demand money from them.

An amulet writer who talked to Pajhwok reporter on Facebook messenger said: “We make amulet for everything, even for traveling abroad.”

He said: “Our work is 100 percent successful, there were three individuals whose cases had come to a halt and after 14 days of our efforts, things changed and they were able to go abroad.”

“Individuals who want to go abroad through amulet and divination has to provide 5,000 afs in which 1,000 afs is taken in advance.”

Religious scholar Mufti ShamsurrahmanFarotan said the real creed of Muslim is that everything is done and decided by Allah and the real planner is Allah.

He said: “Amulet in the form of a piece wrapped up in covers is not permitted in Islam, you can read and recite some verses of the Quran and then blow them on the body of sick persons or pray for resolution of others problems.”

“It is an authentic Hadith of the Prophet (PBUH) that if someone goes to amulet writers and take amulet from them and then wear it that person is Mushrik.”

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