The Bureau of Investigation and General Prosecution in Jeddah has charged a British man in his 50s with verbally harassing women under the pretext of reading Ruqya, which is the Islamic practice of reciting Qur'anic verses to cure an illness. Members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice arrested the man after they received a tipoff from a citizen who said the man had harassed his wife. According to the complaint, the man asked the husband to wear headphones while he recited verses from the Qur'an. When he could not hear what was being said, he allegedly began asking his wife inappropriate questions about the couple's sex life and if she had ever had illicit sexual relations. The citizen also said the man charged customers between SR1,000 to SR1,5000 to read Ruqya and SR30,000 to SR35,000 if he was successful in healing the illness. To confirm the authenticity of the complaint, a commission member posed as a customer and arrested the man when he asked him if he had had an extramarital affair. __
