SUFI STORIES #28. FAITH & PSYCHIC HEALERS (& SURGEONS)
After sharing many stories about jinns, I will now share stories about the faith and psychic healers that I know of or encountered. By faith or spiritual healing, I mean healing through invoking the healing power of the Divine, and achieving the healing not through natural, physical means. The healing methods can therefore be described as “miraculous”. Spiritual healing is very much an energy phenomenon. God is Light, and Light is Energy. God is the source of energy (though He is not just energy). The Qur’an describes God as the “light upon the light”: "God is the light of the heavens and the earth; the likeness of His Light is as a niche wherein is a lamp (the lamp in a glass, the glass as it were a glittering star) kindled from a Blessed Tree, an olive that is neither of the East nor of the West whose oil well nigh would shine, even if no fire touched it; light upon light; (God guides to His Light whom He wills.)" [Qur’an 24:35 The Verse of Light, Ayat An-Nur] So the divin