The word · The heart
الحِجَامَة
Hijama
Cupping: suction on the skin with small incisions to draw blood out, practised and praised by the Prophet.
Also written · Hijamah · Hejama · Hajama · Hijaama · Cupping · Wet cupping · Cupping therapy · Blood cupping · Sunnah cupping · Hijama days
The meaning
What Hijama means in Islam
He was cupped, peace be upon him, and said that among the best of the remedies people use is cupping, in reports collected by Bukhari and Muslim. It is a recommended treatment, not an act of worship and not a cure for everything, and the reports naming particular days of the month are weighed differently by different scholars. It should be done by someone trained and clean. It is medicine, and the ordinary rules of medicine apply to it.
Evidence · Sunnah · Established in the authentic Sunnah
Read beside it
Words that sit beside it
- RuqyaReciting Qur'an and prophetic supplications over a sick or afflicted person as treatment.الرُّقْيَة
- BarakahBlessing: a quality Allah puts in a thing so that a small amount goes further than it should.البَرَكَة
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- 'AfwPardon: dropping a wrong you are owed, without the other person having to earn it.العَفْو
- GhaflahHeedlessness: not the denial of the truth, but the habit of never getting round to it.الغَفْلَة
- Kaba'irMajor sins: the ones the texts single out with a punishment, a curse, or a warning of the Fire.الكَبَائِر
- MuraqabahLiving with the awareness that Allah sees you, at the moment you are acting.المُرَاقَبَة
- SabrHolding yourself steady under what is hard, without complaint to creation and without giving up.الصَّبْر
- TabarrukSeeking blessing through a person, place or object, which scholars permit narrowly and dispute widely.التَّبَرُّك