Why are complaints about the evil eye and sorcery so prevalent in our time?

Question:
Our dear Shaykh, Shaykh Salih, why do people complain about these matters—sorcery and envy—in our time? Is it because of their distance from the Book of Allah and their abandonment of the prescribed recitations and remembrances?

Answer:
The cause of this is that the fortune-tellers, liars, and sorcerers have taken advantage of people to consume their wealth and extort it from them in the name of treatment, in the name of benefiting people, and in other ways that they hear and read in the media. All of this is among the causes of the spread of this evil in our time, along with the ignorance of many people—ignorance of beneficial knowledge and holding fast to the correct creed. It is obligatory to stay away from these matters, these superstitions, and these forbidden things, and to seek treatment by what Allah has made lawful, by what Allah has revealed, and by what Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, has prescribed. Yes.