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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Is eating glass, nails, and the like a form of sorcery?

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Question:
May Allah protect you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner asks: If a person eats glass, or has a car drive over his belly without being affected by it, is this sorcery and magic, or is it a skill that a person can train himself to perform?

Answer:
We have mentioned this to you more than once: among the types of sorcery is the kind that is a lie. It does not eat glass, nor does it eat nails, nor does it eat embers. Rather, it creates an illusion for people through the jinn of something that is not real, something
seemed to him from their magic that they were movingيُخَيَّلُ إِلَيْهِ مِن سِحْرِهِمْ أَنَّهَا تَسْعَىٰ
[Taha 20:66]
, which has not become snakes; rather, they are sticks charged with mercury that moves them, creating an illusion for people. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [907- 4717] هل أكل الزجاج والمسامير ونحوها من عمل السحر؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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