YOU ARE IN TROUBLE; YOU PRACTISE MAGIC!

… it was not Solomon who disbelieved, it was the devils who disbelieved by teaching the people magic and that which was revealed to the angels Haaroot and Maarot in Babylon …

Magic, according to the Reader’s Digest Great Encyclopedia Dictionary (new York fund and Wagnalls publishing co. 10th ed. 1975) p813 is defined as:

“the seeming control or foresight of natural forces by ritual invocation of supernatural agencies, as well as the belief that men can coerce nature by the use of certain rites, formulas, and actions".

The term witchcraft, divination and necromancy are among the terminologies most commonly used in reference to magic and its practitioners. Witchcraft was defined as sorcery practiced by a woman possessed by a demon. Divination referred to the attempt to gain supernatural insight into the future while necromancy or communication with the dead was one of the methods of divination.

In Arabic, however, the term ‘Sihr’ (magic) includes sorcery, witchcraft, divination and necromancy.

Magic is haraam (forbidden)

The phrase:

‘Whoever purchases it would have no share of paradise in the hereafter’  Q2 VS 102

Proves that the magician as well as one who learns and teaches magic are kaafirs (disbelievers). The phrase whoever purchases it (acquires it) is general in it application. It includes who acquire wealth from teaching it, whoever pays to learn it, or simply whoever has knowledge of it.

Islamic ruling on magic

Since both the practice and learning of magic classified in Islam as kufr (disbelief),the sharee’ah (law) has set aside a very strict punishment for any one caught practicing it. The penalty for anyone caught practicing it, who does not repent and give it up, is death. This law is based on the following Hadeeth reported by Jundub ibn ka’b: The prophet said;

‘The prescribed punishment for the magician is that he be executed by the sword’.tirmidhi

This Hadeeth, though da’eef (weak) in its chain of narration has been upgraded to the level of hassan, (relatively authentic) due to supporting evidence.

AMAZING!

Even in the torah; Christians and the Jews are showed explicitly that magic is forbiden. In leviticus 20:27;

a man or a woman who is a medium or a wizard shall be put to death:they shall be stoned with stone,their blood shall be put upon them.

 

Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips, in his book the fundamental of tauheed (Islamic monotheism ) concludes:

“the severity of the ruling on magicians is primarily to protect the weaker elements of society from falling into shirk in Tauheed Al-Asmaa Was-Sifaat by attributing to magicians divine qualities belonging only to Allah. In addition to the sacrilege committed by those who practice witchcraft in Ernest, magician often claim for themselves supernatural power and divine attributes, in order attract a following and earn undue fame.