The warning in the Friday sermon delivered nationwide follows cases involving practices that could deviate from one's faith and turn a person into a polytheist.

Islam allows traditional medicine so long as it conforms to Islamic teachings and does not contradict the practices of Ahli Sunnah Wal Jemaah or the followers of the Prophet's traditions.

The sermon highlighted many evidences that prove the deviant practices of some bomoh, including giving the patient a 'tangkal' or amulet that's supposed to have the ability to protect the user and ward off sickness, misfortune and evil.

A case that came to light was when a medicine man, who practices Islamic medicine, treated a patient in the country.

He asked the person to take off his amulet.

The patient refused because the thing was expensive and he had paid $9,999 for it.

But when the religious medicine man insisted, the patient relented and on opening the wrapping of the amulet or

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