I am a girl at 17 years age. I am having an illness wich is chronic.
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Asalaamualaikum
dear mo`min brother.
I am a
girl at 17 years age. I am having an illness wich is chronic, and that has
happend to me before 2 years ago. Before my illness was diagnosed, my parenst
took me to a sheik or what ever it`s called, and he said to me that someone had
make taweez on me, and I haven`t done anyone anything so who could do such a
thing to me. The sheikh made some taweez for me too and i also took them the
way i should. BUt it doesn`t helped, and after a few months the doctors find
out what my illness was. So my question is, that why are they saying thing like
that if they can`t help you probobly.? and does black magic exist?
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Answer:
Priests magic cure
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 Sister in Islam, first and foremost allow
us to clarify that there is no such thing is a ‘black’, or a ‘red’, or a
‘white’, or a ‘yellow’ magic! Magic or
‘seher’ as described 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.
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 fears any evil from any quarter of the unseen and
does anything else, like using a ‘taaweedh’, or an amulet, or a charm, or
sprinkle water, or do absolutely anything else other than seeking refuge in
their Lord and reciting the ‘Muawwidhaat’ (Surahs 113 Al-Falaq and 114
An-Naas)…..then it would be deemed that they have put their trust in a thing
other than Allah Subhanah, and all such forms and rites would constitute the
evil manifestation of ‘shirk’ in the Sight of Allah Subhanah.
Uqbah ibn 'Amir
narrates that the Messenger of Allah (saws) said: "If anyone wears an
amulet (taaweedh), may Allah not help
him in fulfilling his wish. If anyone
wears a sea-shell around his neck, may Allah give him no peace."
Narrated by Ahmad
and Al-Hakim.
An
amulet (tamimah, taaweedkh, etc.) is a string of shells or beads that the pagan
Arabs used to put around their children's necks, believing that it would protect
them from the evil eye. Islam absolutely
abolished this and all other superstitious practices, rites, and rituals of
falsehoods. The Messenger of Allah
(saws) called it a manifest form of ‘shirk’ and invoked the curse of Allah
against upon those who wore a ‘taaweedh’ seeking its protection.
It is reported from
Ibn Mas'ud that once, when he entered his home, he noticed his wife wearing a
knotted object round her neck. He took
it away and broke it. Then he remarked: 'The family of Abdullah has become so
arrogant that they now associate with Allah those for whom He has sent down no
authority.' I have heard the Messenger
of Allah (saws) saying: 'Verily, incantations, amulets, and love charms
are acts of shirk (associating gods with Allah).' The people said: 'O Abu Abdullah! We are familiar with incantations and
amulets, but what is a love charm (altawlah)'?'
He replied: 'It is a sort of magical formula by which women sought to
gain their husbands' love'." (Related by Al-Hakim and Ibn Hibban).
Imran ibn Hasin
reports that the Messenger of Allah (saws) saw a man wearing a bracelet of
copper on his arm. The Prophet (saws)
exclaimed to him: 'Woe be to you!' What
is this? ' The man replied: 'I am
suffering from weakness (al-wahinah).' (Al-wahinah is a disease that causes
pain in the shoulders and hands. The man was wearing a copper bracelet
believing it would relieve his pain and suffering). The Prophet (saws) prohibited him from
wearing it because he regarded it as an amulet. The Prophet (saws) said:
'It will give you nothing but pain.
Throw it away. Had you died
while wearing it, you would never have achieved salvation! (ie. you
would have died in the state of the unforgivable sin of ‘shirk’'"
(Narrated by Ahmad)
Isa ibn Hamza
said: I went to see Abdullah ibn Hakim
and his face was red due to high fever.
I said to him: 'Why don't you use
an amulet?' He said: 'We seek refuge
with Allah from it. The Messenger of
Allah (saws) said: "Whoever wears anything as an amulet will be entrusted
to it". (Narrated by Abu Daw'ud)
Your Statement:
Before my illness was diagnosed, my parenst took me to a sheik or what ever
it`s called,
If one has a computer breakdown, would it be intelligence
or wisdom to take the broken computer to the chemist??? If one has a physical ailment, it is only
prudent that one try to treat their ailment through the advice and treatment of
a person qualified in the field of medicine.
Seeking the help of a ‘supposed’ religious priest or scholar for a physical
ailment makes as much sense as taking a broken computer to a chemist!
To take a broken computer to a chemist for repairs is
unwise in itself; but to top that and apply the remedy suggested by a chemist
to repair a broken computer would be utter ignorance and foolhardy to say the
least!
Your Question: BUt
it doesn`t helped, and after a few months the doctors find out what my illness
was. So my question is, that why are they saying thing like that if they can`t
help you probobly.?
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 9 Surah Taubah
verses 34-35 :
O you who believe! There are indeed many among the priests and
the holy men who devour the wealth of others by evil means, and debar the people from the Way of Allah. Give them the good news of a painful
torment, who hoard up gold and silver
and do not expend these in the Way of Allah.
The Day shall surely come when the same gold and silver shall be heated
in the fire of Hell, and with it will be
branded their foreheads, their bodies
and their backs. (And it will be said):
“Here is that treasure you had hoarded up for yourselves! Taste now the evil of your hoarded treasure!”
Many amongst the supposed ‘priests’ and ‘sheikhs’ are
unscrupulous, wear and display the garb of ‘religion’, but neither fear Allah
Subhanah nor guide the people to the Straight Path of Allah. When an unsuspecting victim comes to them for
any advice, they misguide them by pushing them into the supposed and
self-invented maze and quagmire of ‘magic’, and ‘jinns’, and ‘spells’ and
‘charms’ and scare them sufficiently so that the unsuspecting victims would pay
them whatever they ask in order to nominate the same priests to remove their supposed
‘unseen’ evils from them!
These supposed unscrupulous ‘priests’ are no more than
merry fraudsters and conmen playing with the ignorance of their unsuspecting
victims who assume them to be pious and God-fearing because of their garb of
‘religion’ which they are foremost in displaying! These unscrupulous and supposed ‘holy men’
con and fraud their victims in the name of Allah and Islam, and barter the
Truth for a paltry worldly gain…..Allah is our witness sister, they will have a
severe retribution for their heinous crimes in the Court of the Lord Most
Majestic, Most Supreme in whose Blessed Name these unscrupulous and evil people
ply their unlawful trade!
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 2 Surah
Al-Baqarah verse 174:
Indeed those, who conceal the commands that
Allah has sent down in His Book and barter them away for paltry worldly
gains, fill their bellies with fire. Allah
will not speak to them on the Day of Resurrection, nor will He regard them as
pure and there is a painful torment for them!
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