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STATEMENTS OR ACTIONS THAT NEGATE TAWHEED OR DEFECT IT.
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SORCERY, DIVINATION, AND SOOTHSAYING
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Sorcery makes what is false appear in the form of truth, and causes a thing to be imagined different from what it really is. Its works may be done in talismanic materials or through certain works, medicines, or smoke. Some magic have physical or psychological effects that cause sicknesses, death or separate husband and wife. However, such works can take effect only by the will of Allāh (ﷻ).
The Prophet (ﷺ) has said:
“Keep away from the seven plunging sins”. The people inquired “what are they?” The Prophet (ﷺ) said: “The Shirk, sorcery, homicide, which Allāh (ﷻ) made unlawful, to kill without legitimate reason, devouring usury, devouring orphan’s property, fleeing the battlefield, and accusing a chaste believing woman of fornication.”
[Sahih Bukhari 53,30]
Sorcery involves Shirk in two aspects:
🔹 It involves seeking help of Shayateen, depending on them, and seeking their favors by doing things they love in return for their services. Besides, sorcery is what Shaytaan teaches people. Allāh (ﷻ) says:
وَلَـٰكِنَّ ٱلشَّیَـٰطِینَ كَفَرُوا۟ یُعَلِّمُونَ ٱلنَّاسَ ٱلسِّحۡرَ
“But it is Shayateen who disbelieved, teaching people sorcery.”
[Al-Baqarah 2:102]
🔹 It connotes the claim of knowing of unseen or invisible world, and the claim of sharing this knowledge with Allāh (ﷻ), which constitutes infidelity and deviation. Allāh (ﷻ) says:
وَلَقَدۡ عَلِمُوا۟ لَمَنِ ٱشۡتَرَىٰهُ مَا لَهُۥ فِی ٱلۡـَٔاخِرَةِ مِنۡ خَلَـٰقࣲۚ
“And they have certainly known that he who learns it has no share of good in the Hereafter.”
[Al-Baqarah 2:102]
Hence, there is no doubt that sorcery constitutes infidelity and Shirk which opposes the Aqeedah, and he, who practices must be executed.
Divination and Soothsaying Both of which are but presumptuous claim of having access to the knowledge of the unseen world, and futuristic events as to what will happen on earth, or knowing the location of lost things by employing Shayateen who eavesdrop on the heavens.
Allāh (ﷻ) says:
(interpretation of the meaning)
“Shall I inform you on whom the devils descend? They descend on every great liar and sinner. They eavesdrop and most of them are liars. Who gives ear and most of them are liars.”
[Ash-Shuura: 221-223]
Shaytaan listens by stealth to the conversation of angels and then passes it on to a soothsayer who in turns adds to it a hundred lies, and people would believe him on account of that word which Shaytaan heard from the heavens. Allāh (ﷻ) alone is the only One to Whom is the knowledge of the unseen.
Abu Hurayrah (رَضي اللّه عنه) reported that the Prophet (ﷺ) said:
“He who consults a diviner or a soothsayer and believes what he says, will have disbelieved in what was sent down to Muhammad (i.e. the Qur’aan).”
(Abu Dawood 3904)
Sorcerers, soothsayers, and diviners, deceive people by
posing as physicians and command their patients to make offerings to other than Allāh (ﷻ). They command them to offer animals with certain specifications, or they write them polytheistic talismanic writings, and devilish amulets and place them in lockets to be worn by patients around their necks or preserve them in boxes in their homes.
As muslims we shouldn’t believe these imposters and their tricks, but stick to the Aqeedah completely.
May Allāh (ﷻ) protect us from sorcery and commiting shirk.
آمِيْن
