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“Kazi yangu hasa ni kutoa majinni,” says Sheikh Sharif Ayub. He advertises daily in the local newspapers. He exorcises ghosts, and also reads palms. Even though Sheikh Sharif spends hundred of thousands on advertisement every month, he doesn’t charge fixed amount for his services — clients pay whatever they can comfortably afford.
Sheikh Ayub reveals that people, who wish to harm them (clients), usually send the genies.
“If you leave your house empty for three days, majini usually come and live there, so before you walk into the house, you must say a prayer” he warns.
He got into the genie busting business in 1998.
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“My grandfather was an astrologer, and he passed the talent to me. I will pass it to my grandchildren,” says Sheikh Sharif. Since he started in 1998, he says he has successfully exorcised more than 1,000 genes.
He shows The Nairobian several videos from his Samsung Galaxy.
In one video, he prays for a woman, urging the evil spirits to get out of her.
The woman screams, twisting her body into unnatural positions. She head-snaps back with such force you can hear her bones creak. The woman speaks in several voices, some male, some shrill, and others quite frightening. In ten minutes, the Sheikh has finished exorcising the evil spirit, and the woman, sweaty and teary, falls on the floor. She has no energy left.
“I say Allahu Akbar every time an evil spirits leaves a body,” says Sheikh who claims he has been consulted by the high and mighty in East Africa.
I scroll through his phone and my eyes rest on an exorcism exercise. The client is a famous media personality. He quickly snatches his phone away and says, “These are confidential. They are my clients, and I don’t share their predicaments with anyone. Utmost privacy is paramount in this line of business”
He only exorcise from 10am in the morning. He however doesn’t do it at night. In a day, he can only successfully fight off evil spirits from three clients.
If I try to take on more than three, I will not succeed since it’s a very tiring job,” says Sheikh Sharif, a member of ‘Umoja wa Waganga–East Africa Astrologers’ a welfare group.
“We set up the organisation to support each other, as well as tame rogue astrologers. So far, we haven’t had any of our members misbehave,” adds the devout Muslim who is married to one wife, and has two children.
“I mainly get clients through my website www.lovespellseaastrologer.com,” he says.
As to other ‘doctors’ who purport to treat HIV and cancer through prayers, Sheikh Sharif is very categorical. “I have read all the Holy Books and there is no any verse that shows that HIV and cancer are spiritual issues. The truth is that these are medical issues, please, if you are suffering from any of these diseases, go to the hospital.”
