Why We Blame Magic Instead of Taking Responsibility

Smellorama no raheem alhamdulillahi.

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Rasulillah early he was happy here.

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La sharika lahu al la sala him ash hadu.

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Muhammad while he was happy he ajma'in and my bad today insha'Allah Allah continuing with our theme that we had begun previously and that is we are going to be discussing and kind of wrapping up some of the issues with regards to popular superstitions and their ruling with Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala and last week we discussed a number of superstitions and most prominently last week we discussed the issue of magic sip we discussed some of the descriptions because as we know said as we mentioned last week in detail a sip in the Arabic language this this this word is defined Sahaba seeing how of these three letters when they come together and they're combined in this in this order they articulate an act which is undetectable they articulate an act or a time that is hidden or undetectable right and this is where we get the word south from Sahab is the time right before fudge Allah when we have our so when we have our Sahul right so whole it is taken from the same root word and the scene to have the law because it is because it is a time that is dark and what people are doing during that time is generally private and hidden all right likewise a sip which in the Book of Allah articulates those acts of transgression against others those acts of transgression against others which are hidden and that act is done by way of spells or essentially what boils down to the worship of other than a loss of Hanna with Adam and we discussed last week in in pretty good detail the different types of things which Islam considers to be types of sin so we mentioned that a sit in the legislation of Islam is kind of a broad umbrella kind of broad umbrella term which is inclusive of many things right and one of those things is what comes to mind when we think of magic what comes to mind when we think of Sahel which is you know which is and so forth that type of set specifically meaning sip magic that are entails the worship of other than a law this set is a type of cool according to the book of allah subhana wa tada if it are if it entails the worship of other than Allah what does that mean as we know human beings and jinn they are the two creatures on this earth which are which are expected to worship allah subhana wa ta'ala and to exercise their free will in the obedience of allah we are the only two creatures on this earth the human being and the jinn who have total free will and have the ability to do right or wrong according to the legislation of Allah this is why in the correct opinion of the scholars the Prophet Muhammad SAW alone on Uwe Salem was only sent to the humankind in the gym and not sent to the Angels now the angels on a side note they do have free will but they do not have a desire to disobey allah subhanho wa taala contrary to the human being and the jinn they do not have that internal struggle rights of the flesh and the spirit both tugging at them one part of them wants to do something wrong the other part says no they don't have this internal struggle right so these two creatures the human being in the gym they have the ability to complement one another meaning that the human being can do things that the jinn cannot necessarily do and the jinn can do things that the human being cannot necessarily do and if we look in the book of a loss of Hanna with a data we will notice a pattern and that is whenever a loss of Hanna Matata wishes to discuss or bring up the subject of the human being and the gym together in the same sentence or in the same context if he is referring to strength and might right or military he will begin with the gym he will say in the gym well ince so he'll start with the gym because they are more powerful physically and more able right wha-ho schiavelli sulaymana do who mean as a jitney well in what by and if when a loss of hand Matata wishes to discuss the human being in the gym but is speaking about articulation speaking about I am speaking about eloquence in speech and precision in articulation of meaning and emotion Allah subhana WA Ta'ala will begin with the human being and then the jinn as Allah subhana WA Ta'ala sedgwick adela kajal nelly Kulina being I do when shelton l MC well Jenna yo hey Baba whom Allah burdens o coca-cola Aurora and so this is the these are the dynamics the human being is more the human being is more articulate the human being is more eloquent human being is more able to express very fine detailed nuanced meanings whereas the Djinn are more powerful in their bodies and their abilities their physical capabilities and so when the human being interacts with the Djinn this is something that is very very rare okay now when we discuss the issue of magic when we discuss the issue of said we have to keep in mind that this is not the norm this is the exception it exists yes and there are in fact which is not the witches that we probably imagine you know the the old lady with the green skin and the black hat you know and and stirring this pot of stew this is this is what we're told you know in imagery and in in you know popular culture we are speaking about men and women that look just me and you they may even go to the Masjid they may pray they may and oftentimes do in Muslim countries masquerade s shares as people of knowledge as people of people who are righteous people Ryan people that are humble and this is kind of a dust cloud to conceal what it is that they are really doing men or women right though women are usually more prone to this at least in the time of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam and this is something that exists but again it is the exception it is not the majority when we learn about the fact that a Shaitaan can possess a person this is an issue which is mentioned in the Quran and it is alluded to in the Quran and when we discuss magic and the fact that spell could be used or placed on someone when we discuss these things this is not the most likely culprit and our problems and this is a problem that we have very often and that is that people generally as human beings we are very complacent we don't to take responsibility and so we often look for the easy way out and that is to point our fingers at others and so if a person has let's say problems in his marriage they will try to they'll go to the ship and say you know what I think my wife is possessed right I think my wife is possessed she wasn't acting this before now she's acting this or the other way around right or somebody has done some magic on us or somebody has given us the evil eye again while possible it is very improbable it's possible and it does happen on occasion but it's not as widespread as popular culture would have you believe it is kind of rare it does happen but it is not the cause of our troubles usually there is a more likely culprit it's kind of it's kind of when a person has an illness right if a person starts to feel they have a cold now the symptoms of a cold or the symptoms of a flu they are somewhat ambiguous it could be a whole plethora of illnesses that could cause this right it could be anything from just a simple cold or even sinuses acting up because you were in a dusty environment all the way up to things heart attack and cancer and leukemia and all of these things it could be anywhere in between but when we go to diagnose something we don't jump to the most rare thing when somebody said I feel I have flu-like symptoms we don't say well you probably have leukemia we don't usually go there right we begin with things that are most likely most probable if a person has a problem in his marriage okay yes it is hypothetically possible that this could be some outside interference right of magic or something but most likely most likely the problems are coming from one or both of the two spouses all right that is the most likely culprit and so in when it comes to the issue of likewise when it comes to the issue of psychosis people people have psychosis people have things schizophrenia right now we have to diagnose things physically and medically before we jump to the conclusion that this is some kind of demonic possession right we have to go through those steps first because they are more likely and if we look at the sunnah of the prophet sallallaahu a said in his life is true did we see that that was less dwelled upon and the prophets all alone he was sending them did mention these things to health explain to us the world around us and to emphasize the things that are unseen and the things that are spiritual because that is what he came to address mainly soul Aloha Ewa Salem however we do not see that he most often in diagnosing people's problems would jump to the conclusion of possession or evil eye or any of these things it happens and it did occur in the time of the prophets all alone onto a set and he would mention it but it is not as frequent as people would have he belief as people would have us believe and so you know I've had all kinds of situations I've had people call me and try to convince me that you know he he divorced his wife he divorced her three times but she should still be his wife because there's some kind of magic spell on her and she's possessed and that's what caused him to divorce her so it's the jinns fault right it's somebody else's fault Sibley's his fault it's not my fault and that's really not going to fly on the day of resurrection either as allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala says well i'm marco de la mora Carla Carla shape our new lemnoc OD el amor en a la hora de comunidad happy vodka left o co filete new moon evil omen full circle mana be mostly cumin and to be mostly loss of Hannah what Alice said that when everybody is where he belongs in Paradise or the Hellfire at the end and everybody is in his place and and Allah is finished with his judgment Elise will say to his followers Allah promised you and I promised you and I I was not true to my promise don't blame me blame yourselves I did not have any physical abilities to control you nor did you over me I just I just invited you i beckoned you I insinuated I whispered to you I encouraged you but you did it with your own free will you exercised your own free will to do these things so don't blame me and blame yourselves and so we have to take responsibility for our actions and this is one of the most important principles of finding guidance and that is taking responsibility for our actions and so when we discuss ahead we are more if you notice we are more we are dwelling upon more of the things which happen to every one of us like superstitions talismans like rituals things that that we all do for good luck or to ward off bad luck or what have you that are part of SIF in the general sense right and we are not speaking about possession and these things as much because it's more rare okay so the way that real magic works the magic that is mentioned in The Book of Allah which a person is considered a witch which will invalidate a person's it's name is is a type of magic which entails the worship of other than Allah.

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So essentially as we mentioned the human being is more eloquent the jinn is more physically capable and so the human being may have the way that real magicians real witches get into this is that they are expected to perform rituals and worship of certain jinn in order to receive services from them right not Jin more shayateen demons they worship these demons they will slaughter for other than Allah they will pray to these demons and everything that you can imagine that or cannot imagine that is terrible is usually something that these people are expected to do in order to gain the services of these shell team and so they are expected to not bathe for for a month they are expected to chant the praises of certain demons or certain shayateen they are expected to defile the hold on defile religion right they are expected to sometimes bathe in impurities and in filth they are expected on occasion to sleep in amongst garbage all kinds of things to degrade the magician and to Train the magician to serve in a in a religious sense other than a loss of Hannibal attack and in return they may receive certain aid from particular jinn or demons or shayateen that will perform for them things that seem to be unbelievable things that seem to be very supernatural right and so this type of magic is rare but it is something that exists but this is not all that is meant by magic one of the things that we'll mention today is another thing that falls into the general meaning of the general umbrella of magic in the legislation of Islam according to the slams definition and that is the issue of astrology this is very very common in this culture astrology what is astrology well let's read the narration first is the narration of IBN abas radiyallahu anhu ma Pilate allah rasool allah he sallallahu alayhi wasallam many Tabitha sherbet and Meena know to me a charlatan a para feynman al menos una vaca dr. Bosher botany Nasseri Zelda Masada Oahu up with the wood what is inaudible so here and so this narration Abdullah heaven our death or the loved ones on that near rates that the messenger of allah sallallahu alayhi wasallam said whoever learns a portion of whoever learns any portion of the discipline if you want to call it that or the science of astrology which which it's not it's more of a superstition then this individual has learned a portion of magic according to the Book of Allah they and the more he learns of it the more he learns of magic in real even realistic and this is in reality and this is a method that the Prophet SAW Allah WA Nimal seldom used to denounce something too to dispraise something to dispraise something we the prophets all alone I Lewis Elam will either outwardly dispraise it or he will liken it to something which has been displaced right so here he mentions astrology is a portion of magic and we know in the Book of Allah that magic ass it is something which is a major sin and is dispraised throughout the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of the Prophet SAW Allah on the centre-right this is one of the ways that the Prophet Muhammad SAW Malone wa salem would prohibit something and that is to not directly dispraise it but to liken it to something which is displaced or mentioned that it is a portion or a part of something which is displaced another good example of this is the narration of a narration in Sahih Muslim in which the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam I said men lava Ben note the sheet faka animal a messiah who fee Lakme in ziran what emma he he said soul alone he wa sallam whoever plays with dice dice whoever uses dice plays with dice then it is as if he has stuck his hand into the blood and flesh of swine now what do we know of the blood and flesh of swine it is filthy Allah subhana WA Ta'ala mentions it by name it is the only animal mentioned by name in the Quran and prohibited by name right other animals that are prohibited to eat or consume are mentioned by description or mention in the Sunnah in the pull on the the pig the swine is mentioned by name over and over and over so when the prophet muhammad salih loan on to a settler makes a connection between playing dice and this thing which is mentioned by allah to be filthy and prohibited and interaction with dice is like interaction with this flesh of this swine and the blood of the swine we see that this is a way that he is dis praising this thing that it is prohibited this is one of the ways that he will articulate prohibition so la llamada he Wasilla in the science of well-suited felt and so here we have a dispraise of astrology now there is a difference between astrology and astronomy right astronomy is the science of studying the Stars as they are physically alright their positions and what they represent and what they do and looking through telescopes this is the astronomer right the astrologer this is ancient superstition which goes back to the days of Babylon perhaps even predates Babylonian days and that is looking to the stars as indicators or cause causes of things that occur on earth this is astrology according to a lots of panel without as definition the prophets all alone our newest items definition horoscopes looking to the stars - for good luck looking to the stars to see the future all of these things that we see people do this is a type of said this is a type of set in Islam this is called astrology this is absolutely prohibited in Islam yes Allah subhana WA Ta'ala has made constellations in the sky but these constellations which are referred to as you know the crab and the bowl and this is not something that is part of Islamic knowledge this is a superstition which is derived from paganism in our popular culture our in America our version of astrology and our take on the constellations are for the most part taken from ancient Roman culture and their worship of other than Allah and their gods just as our days of the week are in our months our and other things because you know American culture Western cultures is very much a descendant and a an extension of that ancient culture and so people would look to these stars in these constellations if you're born in this month this is what your horoscope says and you know it's a fun quirky thing that's in all of the newspapers or a lot of newspapers right we've got your weekly horoscope so you're going to look at this horoscope let's check out which month you were born and this is what you can expect your month or your week to be or your day this is absolutely a type of in Islam this is a type of astrology and set in Islam and this is something which is prohibited likewise what is what is another type of magic another type of magic is a Kahana which is in English what we refer to as soothsayers or fortune tellers right there are two types that are mentioned in the Sun now there are the cohan German occasion and there are the a la foon the German Lavrov and some scholars of Islam mentioned that the Canon and outlaw are the same thing others mentioned that occasion is one who tries to allegedly predict the future for you I'll tell you what your future holds and the our love is someone you go to who claims to know the unseen of things which are now things which are occurring now nothing to do with the future this is the distinction what do we call them we call them mediums right we call them psychics in in English or in America anyways we call them psychics a psychic is someone who can tell you you know I can tell you what you're thinking or what so-and-so is thinking or what is happening or what your dead parent is telling you or what the other side right these are called mediums and psychics or oftentimes this a broth when people go missing or used they are used in our as a matter of fact the American government had for a time during the Cold War experimented with psychics right and the the point is is that often times when people go missing when there is a cold case a murder case that can't be that that the detectives where the family members reach a kind of dead end or reach a brick wall they can't take it any further the case is going cold they will resort to things psychics or mediums who and there's other as well psychics mediums remote viewing right these things are all part of Gehenna well raffia this is all part of what Islam considers to be psychics mediums remote remote remote viewers all of these things psychic is someone who usually claims that they can look into the future right a avila off or a medium is someone who usually speaks about what the dead are saying right and we see these on our daytime talk shows I mean anyways when I was a kid in the 90s this is what we were watching you know the Montel Williams Show and the you know all these other talk shows where they would bring these psychics on I remember Montel I remember Montel was was a popular one because he used to bring a particular woman who's deceased now all of the time and they would choose audience members and I'm seeing an S in the name well yeah you will see an S in someone's name somewhere along the line because that's a very popular consonant in the English language anyways these people mediums would claim to speak with the spirit world or claim to speak with the dead right the deceased likewise we have remote viewing remote viewing is you're sitting here but you are seeing another part of the world right you are seeing another part of the world and you can tell people where their lost sibling is where their kidnapped child is may Allah protect us where who is the person who killed someone etc etc now these things these types of people are known as Glenn now this doesn't mean that allah subhana wa ta'ala cannot give a person a dream on occasion right a person may go to sleep a person of righteousness and perhaps have a premonition this is something that is can be from a loss of hano ITAT happened in the time of the Companions there's a difference between that and someone who claims to be a person who can do this at will whenever they desire whenever they choose this is a completely different thing right and so astrology is a type of sin in Islam psychics mediums Auto Fein these different types of people what is the ruling of interacting and visiting these types of people in its left well we have a narration collected by Lima Muslim on the authority of the wife of the prophet sallallaahu a Salem in which the Prophet sallallahu wasallam I said Minetta are often fella who I'm shade in facade alcohol and took the level salah or by in ailment he said sallallahu alayhi wasallam whoever approaches a soothsayer or the scholars of Islam have taken as soothsayers works right so for example if a person looks at the horoscope they haven't gone to the actual astrologer who claimed who claims knowledge of the future through via these horoscopes they haven't gone to that person but they have gone to that person's words or that person's works right and that is the same thing in Islam that is why when Allah subhana WA Ta'ala speaks about the Sunnah he speaks about the prophet muhammed sallalahu said he mentions if we differ in anything we are to refer back to Allah back to his messenger what does that mean the book of allah the words of allah of the words of the messenger so allah on the senate likewise we will have been considered to have referred something back to allah right referred something back to the messenger of allah so allah in the center likewise if a person reads the books or the horoscopes or the predictions of those who claim to be psychics or mediums or fortune tellers or whatever it is astrologers that this person has the same ruling is one who physically goes to them and interacts with them it is the same thing the prophets Allah loan you asylum says whoever goes to a rough and we mention a bluff is our equivalent today of a remote viewer or a medium and asked him acts asks him or her about anything and then believe anything having to do with with that field right not asking a psychic the time what time is it they have a watch on their hand that's not what it's intended what is intended is what they claim to be prominent in and that is knowing the unseen asks them about anything having to do with the unseen or their claims to such knowledge and believes what this person has said LEM took the level salah out of a nal men their prayer will not be accepted by a law for 40 days 40 days right and this doesn't mean that the person stops praying no you must pray but the prayer is not going to be rewarding it is not going to be accepted by Allah subhana WA Ta'ala as a punishment for this and a repercussion likewise Abu Dawood the suggests tani has collected on the authority of Allah right about the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam I said men attack a demon for Sadako be my whole.

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Alayhi wasallam affiliate in manator Arafah no K&N for Sadako be my full focus Cara be my own seal allah muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam so he said in another wording of this narration he said so lalomanu asylum the Prophet said whoever goes to a medium or a psychic or fortune-teller and believes what days tell him then this individual has disbelieved in what has been sent down upon muhammad sallallaahu ascend the religion of islam this person has done something that will invalidate at least a portion of a person's Islam and so the scholars of Islam mentioned between these two narrations that this person has disbelieved in what has been sent down upon Muhammad soul alone on the asylum and the other wording Allah will not accept his or her prayer for forty days this articulates that this is a type of minor that is asking looking at what they say or even worse believing in what they say that this will invalidate a portion of a person's descent it will not make a person a non Muslim but it is a thing that will invalidate a portion of a person's Islam which is a very serious thing very very serious thing and so what falls into this fortune cookies horoscopes psychics mediums all of these types of people and their works that claim to make particular predictions this is a type of this this has this same ruling that we have just mentioned there is a narration also on the authority of an Milanovic assign more foreign colonies eminent Ohio totally erotic Ahana otaku he narrow our Sarah I will show here whenever I'm an attack a Heenan force a dacha will be my pocket.

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Sallallahu alayhi wasallam or level Bazaar be snared in jagged another narration on the authority of ramalon even Hussein in which the near the prophet muhammad salih loan money wa salem was narrated to have said he is not of us the one who looks for bad omens or has bad omens sought for and we spoke about it totally right or to Kahana otaku in a level someone who goes to the psychic or or someone who sends another to go to the psychic on his behalf or one that does magic or one that has magic done for him this individual is not of us right he's speaking of himself soul alone you were said if he is not of a lot his messenger solo mahadeva said right he says women attacking an foe Sadako be my ooh la la be my ooh nila ala muhammadin soul alone you are selling and whoever goes to a soothsayer a fortune-teller a medium a a psychic a remote viewer right and believes this individual in what he says then this individual has disbelieved in what has been sent down upon Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam and so this is what we wanted basically to speak about today come to Allah with regards to some very very prominent things in our culture that happened so these things involve palm reading right palm reading these things involve horoscopes these this ruling this thing which is we've spoken about today involves fortune tellers mediums psychics magicians and also other things that we have spoken about before with regards to the stars if a person looks to the stars as things that interact with our earth we have no physical proof of this or we have no legislative proof of this an outline is messenger did not tell us and we cannot detect any physical evidence of this then this is also type of let's - ship in its then so for example it is believed that when a certain star is out that this is a good omen or if a certain star is out it will bring rain or it will cause it to rain right there is a fine line there and that is if it is not a if it is not an an issue having to do with astronomy meaning that when the when the earth is on a particular when it is towards whichever axis or what have you there's a physical formula that we can prove and we can disprove scientifically that this is something which correlates with this that is different right so for example well what does this mean the full moon okay the full moon by something which has a lot of superstition connected to it and it also has some astronomical meaning there in the science of gravity and pull and astronomy there is a real physical interaction so we can see that on the full moon and everyone crabs in certain tropical islands to come out during that time innate right this is when they do it correlates with the full moon we see that the tide the tide of the oceans and seas because of the gravitational pull of the moon interacts with these tides and causes the tide to rise that is fine there's other things even even things with regards to our blood pressure and so forth if there is a physical and detectable thing right we can detect it physically we can measure it we can disprove it most importantly this is fine but connecting a full moon to werewolves for example other superstitions then this is not something which is permissible right so there are superstitions and there are things which are physically proven if a if a magician says tomorrow you're going to have such-and-such happen to you a fortune-teller that is different than the weatherman saying you know we're gonna have rain tomorrow most likely 99% chance we're looking at the clouds we're looking at we are measuring certain things and we are making a prediction that is fine but this other thing which we cannot prove and most importantly we cannot disprove this is something which is a superstition so there is a difference likewise if you if you go to a you know a soothsayer or a magician or they said they fortune-teller or psychic they tell you yes your your child is you know going to be this and datsan going to be a girl this is prohibited and how long and has the meanings and the the rulings that we have just mentioned but if you go to your doctor and get a all to get an ultrasound this is permissible because we have a detectable way of looking at something this is not magic anymore right so that is enough for today we'll lower limb or someone Louis endomondo nabina muhammad where he was happiest man hundred.