10. What is the ruling on wearing amulets and talismans?

Question: What is the ruling on wearing amulets and talismans?Answer: This issue, I mean the wearing of talismans and amulets is divided into two categories:1. The thing worn is from the Qur’an and the scholars both the early generations and the later generations have disagreed regarding this. Some of them permitted it, considering that it is included in the Words of Allah, the Most High:“And We send down of the Qur’an that which is a healing and a mercy to those who believe (in Islamic Monotheism and act on it).” [Al-Isra' 17:82]and the Words of Him, the Most High:“(This is) a Book (the Qur’an) which We have sent down to you, full of blessings.” [Sad 38:29]And it is from the blessings, that it is worn to protect against evil.There are those who forbid it, saying: It has not been confirmed from the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) that wearing them is a lawful means of repelling evil or removing it. And, the fundamental principle in matters such as these is to refrain from them, and this is the most authoritative view. So, it is not permissible to wear talismans, even if they are from the Noble Qur’an, nor is it permissible to place them under the pillow of the sick person, or to hang them on the wall or the like. Supplication and recitation may only be made directly over them, as the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) used to do.2. The thing worn is from something other than the Noble Qur’an, whose meaning is not understood. This is not permissible under any condition, because what is written is not known, and some people write charms and complicated things, interwoven letters, that are almost impossible to understand or to read. Such things are forbidden innovations, and they are not allowed in any circumstance. And Allah knows better.Shaikh Muhammad bin Salih Al-’Uthaimeen[Taken from Fatawa Arkan-ul-Islam (Islamic Verdicts on the Pillars of Islaam, Volume 1 (Creed & Prayer), Darussalam pg.99-101]