The Ruling on Going to a Sorcerer to Bring About Love or Discord Between a Husband and Wife

Question:
May Allah reward you with good and do you good. We return in this session to a message sent by a listener who says: Your brother in Allah, Iyad Abu Salah. We presented some of Brother Iyad’s questions in a previous session. In this session, he asks and says: Many women, may Allah guide them, go to sorcerers or soothsayers to have a spell cast for the husband or the wife, and then they cause separation between the husband and his wife. Is there a word of advice for these people? May Allah reward you with good?

Answer:
The existence of these sorcerers in the lands of the Muslims is a calamity and a trial; their presence is evil for the Muslims. They are more dangerous to the Muslims than fatal diseases and deadly plagues. They are more dangerous than narcotics and forbidden substances, because they corrupt the beliefs. It is obligatory for the Muslims to prevent these people. It is obligatory for the rulers, the men of hisbah (religious police), the scholars, and the general Muslims to demonstrate to prevent these people and remove them from the lands of the Muslims. It is not permissible to go to them or to ask them. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: And in another hadith:
The sorcerers are disbelievers. So, learning sorcery and teaching it is disbelief, and the sorcerer is a disbeliever. He must be killed, and he is not asked to repent; because he is one of those who cause corruption on earth. It is not permissible for them to remain in the lands of the Muslims. It is not permissible to go to them, it is not permissible to ask them and believe them, and it is not permissible to deal with them or to have them cause separation between a husband and wife, or to reunite a husband and wife. For in doing so, he has been pleased with sorcery and ordered it. And whoever is pleased with it and orders it, his ruling becomes the ruling of the sorcerer, may Allah protect us from that. Yes.