What is black magic ?
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What
is black magic ? if a person is doing this, life of other person is
ruined.specially if done for girls that so and so should not get marreid its
really sad .what r the islamic measures that v can avoid the black magic?
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Answer:
What is black magic
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 none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that
Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
Dear and Beloved Brother, first and foremost allow us to
clarify that there is no such thing as a ‘black’, or a ‘red’, or a ‘white’, or
a ‘yellow’ magic! Magic or ‘seher’ as
decribed in the Glorious Quran is simply ‘magic’!
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 2 Surah
Baqarah verse 102:
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
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.
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 is the magic was an illusion performed by the magicians in the
court of Pharoah, whereby their staff when thrown became a snake.
Thus to answer the question if ‘magic really exists’, the
answer in light of the guidance of the above absolutely clear guidance of the
Quran would be ‘yes’!
Allah Says in His Holy Quran Chapter 35 Surah
Fatir verse 2:
2 What Allah out of His Mercy doth bestow on mankind there is none can
withhold: what He doth withhold there is none can grant apart from Him: and He
is the Exalted in Power Full of Wisdom.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 3 Surah Ale Imraan verse 160:
If Allah helps you none can overcome you: if He
forsakes you who is there after that that can help you? In Allah then let believers put their trust.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 6 Surah
Anaam verse 17:
17 "If Allah touch thee with affliction none can remove it but He;
if He touch thee with happiness He hath power over all things.
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 33 Surah
Ahzaab verse 3:
And put your trust in Allah Alone; and enough is Allah as a Disposer of affairs.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 9 Surah Taubah verse 51:
Say: "Nothing
will happen to us except what Allah has decreed for us: He is our Protector"; and on Allah let the believers put their
trust.
Al-Tirmidhi Hadith 3656 Narrated by Abu Musa 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 (the effects of)
magic."
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!; for Absolutely All Power and All Strength belongs to none
save Allah Subhanah Alone!
Al-Tirmidhi Hadith 1019 Narrated by Abu Sa'id al-Khudri
The Prophet (saws) used to seek protection
against the Jinn and the evil eye till Surahs al-Falaq and an-Naas were
revealed. After they were revealed, he (saws) stuck to them and discarded
everything beside them.
If one fears any evil from any quarter whatsoever, one
should recite the Muawwidaat (113th Surah Al-Falaq and 114th
Surah An-Naas) thus seeking refuge in the One and Only Lord Most High. Allah is our witness sister, there is no
other or better source of refuge or protection than in Allah Subhanah, the Lord
of the Worlds. After one has recited the
Muawwidaat and remained constant in its recitation, one should know and believe
with absolute conviction that they are under the refuge and protection of none
other than Allah Subhanah, and no amount or combinations of Jinns, or magic
doers, or evil-eyes, or any harm can
come towards them from any quarter.
If one trusts, obeys, and follows the guidance and
commands of Allah and His Messenger (saws),
one can be assured of never ever being misled; but if one believes, obeys and follows any
other guidance, other than that of Allah and His Messenger (saws), one can be
assured of being led astray.
Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to
Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only
Source of Strength.
Your brother and
well wisher in Islam,
Burhan
Wister