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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Are there extraordinary displays held in some summer activities, such as eating coals and walking on them?

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Question:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner says: In some summer activities, there are some extraordinary displays, such as eating coals and walking on them, and the one doing it may have a long beard.

Answer:
This is sorcery; this is illusory sorcery. No one eats the coals. You do not approach the coals, nor do you… how could you eat them? It is only an illusion that makes this thing appear to eat the coals, while he is a liar. This is an illusion over the eyes
they bewitched the eyes of the people and struck terror into them, and they presented a great [feat of] magic.سَحَرُوا أَعْيُنَ النَّاسِ وَاسْتَرْهَبُوهُمْ وَجَاءُوا بِسِحْرٍ عَظِيمٍ
[Al-A'raf 7:116]
seemed to him from their magic that they were movingيُخَيَّلُ إِلَيْهِ مِن سِحْرِهِمْ أَنَّهَا تَسْعَىٰ
[Taha 20:66]
. This is illusory sorcery, a lie told to people and deception, which is what is called an illusion.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [245 /1350] يقام في بعض المناشط الصيفية استعراضات خارقة للعادة كأكل الجمر والمشي عليه؟ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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