Answer: It is for the
psychologists and psychiatrists to decide whether they can be of any help in
these cases. Probably, they will have to first agree that there are jinn
involved at least in some such cases. I also feel that the discipline of
psychology can help even without a formal acknowledgement that the jinn are
involved in some disorders, because the involvement of these creatures is
only indirect and invisible, and the harm they cause is something the
experts can observe. If they start working on the cure, it can still be
effective. It is for instance not always necessary for a doctor to know what
caused a certain injury to the patient for him to cure it. A heart
specialist would not always know what domestic problem caused the anxiety in
his patients which was the ultimate cause of the problem. He can start
curing on identifying the apparent condition of the patient.
Going to a Pīr for curing the
problem is however a completely different ball game. There, you have no
known rules. Everything is based on a mysterious trust in an individual,
whose modus operandi and intentions are both completely unknown. Moreover,
they are very likely to cause religious harm, which one ought to avoid under
all circumstances. Therefore, one should be very careful in going to them.
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