What is the difference between the evil eye and sorcery?
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The questioner : What is the difference between the evil eye and sorcery, and listening, in their treatment after commitments?
The Shaykh : No, sorcery is different. Sorcery is seeking help from Satan through external demonic spirits, or using specific medicines given to the one affected by sorcery. That is, the sorcerer, may Allah protect us from him, either creates the sorcery in things such as medicines he puts in his drink or food or the like, or in anything related to him, or he does it by seeking help from demonic spirits, which harm the one affected by sorcery as Allah the Exalted wills.
The questioner : It is possible for the sorcery to be through things that affect the one affected by sorcery.
The Shaykh : How does it affect him?
The questioner : We call them works.
The Shaykh : Yes, the penetrations in the contract.
The questioner : Okay, Shaykh, if a person, for example.
The Shaykh : But this one who casts the evil eye does not use anything external from himself; his nature is evil, may Allah protect us from him, and this evil wind comes out of him, and it is a wind that can be detected by smell.
The Shaykh : No, sorcery is different. Sorcery is seeking help from Satan through external demonic spirits, or using specific medicines given to the one affected by sorcery. That is, the sorcerer, may Allah protect us from him, either creates the sorcery in things such as medicines he puts in his drink or food or the like, or in anything related to him, or he does it by seeking help from demonic spirits, which harm the one affected by sorcery as Allah the Exalted wills.
The questioner : It is possible for the sorcery to be through things that affect the one affected by sorcery.
The Shaykh : How does it affect him?
The questioner : We call them works.
The Shaykh : Yes, the penetrations in the contract.
The questioner : Okay, Shaykh, if a person, for example.
The Shaykh : But this one who casts the evil eye does not use anything external from himself; his nature is evil, may Allah protect us from him, and this evil wind comes out of him, and it is a wind that can be detected by smell.
Source
قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، 2509 - 4600 ما الفرق بين العين والسحر؟ ابن عثيمين — youtube.com
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