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DEAR BROTHER,

I WANT TO KNOW WHERE BLACK MAGIC COMES FROM I HEARD THAT IT COMES FROM THE QUR`AN IF U RECITE THE QUR`AN BACKWARDS THEN A PERSON IS DOING BLACK MAGIC IS THAT TRUE ALSO WHY HAS ALLAH MADE SUCH TYPE OF THINK LIKE BLACK MAGIC WHAT IS THE RESON FOR USING BLACK MAGIC?

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Black magic quran backwards

In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that there is no one (no idol, no person, no grave, no prophet, no imam, no dai, nobody!) worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.

According to the guidance of the Quran, there are two types of magic.

The type of magic given by the two Angels Harut and Marut by the permission of Allah Subhanah as a trial for the people, whereby the magic would cause differences between a husband and a wife in marriage.

The second type of the magic was an illusion performed by the magicians in the court of Pharoah, whereby their staff when thrown became a snake.

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 2 Surah Baqarah verse 102: They followed what the evil ones gave out (falsely) against the power of Solomon; the blasphemers were not Solomon but the evil ones teaching men magic and such things as came down at Babylon to the angels Harut and Marut. But neither of these taught anyone (such things) without saying: "We are only for trial so do not blaspheme." They learned from them the means to sow discord between man and wife. But they could not thus harm anyone except by Allah's permission. And they learned what harmed them not what profited them. And they knew that the buyers of (magic) would have no share in the happiness of the Hereafter. And vile was the price for which they did sell their souls if they but knew!

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 7 Surah Aaraaf verses 116-118:

116 Said Moses: "Throw ye (first)." So when they (the magicians) threw, they bewitched the eyes of the people and struck terror into them: for they showed a great (feat of) magic.

117 We put it into Moses's mind by inspiration: "throw (now) thy rod": and behold! It swallows up straightway all the falsehoods which they fake!

118 Thus Truth was confirmed and all that they did was made of no effect.

Beloved Brother, the first thing we, as believers, must understand that those who claim to do magic do not have the power to hurt or benefit anyone, without the permission of Allah Subhanah. No harm and no benefit can happen to the believer without the Will of Allah Subhanah. If Allah does not will it, all the magicians of the world can get together and try their magic on someone, they cannot harm him in the least!

All Power and All Strength is with Allah Subhanah Alone.

Most of the people who claim to do magic are frauds. In parts of Africa, South America, and especially in India and Pakistan, some unscrupulous ‘holy’ people have opened ‘shops’ claiming to perform magic. These people invent all types of satanic rituals and chants and spread fantastic stories of their past successful magic operations to impress their ‘customer’. And then other supposedly ‘holy’ people have opened ‘shops’ to remove this magic from the frightened and helpless ‘customer’! Thus, basically between the ‘holy’ people supposedly doing the magic, and the supposedly ‘holy’ people removing the magic; the common man is being conned! And the way these ‘holy’ thieves operate, the common person is told so many stories and threats of this will happen to him and that will happen to his family, etc., that the person just does and gives whatever they ask in a state of fear and desperation to remove this ‘magic’ from him and his family!

The believers must understand well that no harm, no magic, no spell, no charm, no nothing; can harm or benefit us, without the permission of Allah Subhanah.

Your Question: I WANT TO KNOW WHERE BLACK MAGIC COMES FROM

Firstly there is no such thing is ‘black’, or ‘red’, or ‘white’, or ‘yellow’ magic! Some unscrupulous and evil people try to perform rites and rituals in their effort to ‘supernaturally’ bring harm unto someone. Allah and His Messenger (saws) have condemned this intention of the so-called ‘magicians’ as an act of disbelief and ‘kufr’. Whoever performs or initiates the performance of this sort of magic to harm someone will have absolutely no share in good of the Hereafter.

Al-Tirmidhi Hadith 3656 Narrated by AbuMusa al-Ash'ari

The Prophet (saws) said, "There are three who will not enter Paradise: one who is addicted to wine, one who breaks ties of relationship, and one who believes in magic."

Your Question: I HEARD THAT IT COMES FROM THE QUR`AN IF U RECITE THE QUR`AN BACKWARDS THEN A PERSON IS DOING BLACK MAGIC IS THAT TRUE

There is absolutely no truth to this falsely held belief that if one reads the Quran backwards then the person would be able to perform magic! Allah Subhanah revealed the Glorious Quran as a Book of Guidance to be recited, understood, followed and implemented in the lives of those who fear Allah and the Last Day.

It would indeed be a great sin if one tried to mis-use this Glorious Message of Allah Subhanah in his futile effort to perform an act of disbelief like magic.

Your Question: WHY HAS ALLAH MADE SUCH TYPE OF THINK LIKE BLACK MAGIC WHAT IS THE RESON FOR USING BLACK MAGIC?

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 21 Surah Anbiyaa verse 35: Every soul shall have a taste of death: and We test you by evil and by good by way of trial: to Us must ye return

Allah Subhanah is the Creator of everything in existence, whether it be good or evil! And the wisdom behind the creation of evil is that Allah Wills to test mankind who amongst His slaves eschews evil and aligns himself with the good. If Allah Subhanah created only the good without the evil, then the test He Willed for mankind would be invalid, and the righteous obedient slaves of Allah Subhanah would not be differentiated from the disobedient.

The reason some people ‘try’ to perform magic is to fulfill their intention to harm someone in a ‘supernatural’ way.

Dear and Beloved Brother, we must realize that no amount of magic would take effect on someone without the precise Will and Permission of Allah Subhanah. Even if all the magicians of the world combined together and tried to harm someone, they would not be able to do so, if Allah Subhanah does not Will it; for All Power and Strength lies with none save Allah Subhanah, the Lord of the Worlds. Thus the believers must absolutely disregard their superstitions of magic (if any) and keep their full trust in the Power and Strength of their Merciful Lord. And if the Shaytaan tries to whisper or sow seeds of such superstitions in their hearts, they must immediately seek refuge with Allah Subhanah from the evil designs of the Shaytaan by reciting the 113^th and the 114^th Surah of the Glorious Quran, Surah Al-Falaq and Surah An-Naas. It is expected that their All-Mighty Lord will protect them from every and all evil.

Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.

Your Brother in Islam,

Burhan