The sorcery that makes the sorcerer a disbeliever

The questioner:
He asks: Is there sorcery that makes a person a disbeliever and sorcery that does not? And what is the difference between real sorcery and imaginary sorcery?

The Shaykh:
We have explained to you and made clear to you the difference between real sorcery and imaginary sorcery. As for what he is asking, what does he say?

The questioner:
He asks: What is the sorcery that makes the sorcerer a disbeliever? All sorcery makes the sorcerer a disbeliever.

The Shaykh:
All sorcery makes the sorcerer a disbeliever, because Allah did not exclude anything from it. And the fact that some scholars say there is sorcery that does not make its practitioner a disbeliever is based on their independent legal reasoning (ijtihad), and it is a mistaken ijtihad. For a sorcerer is not a sorcerer unless he submits to the Shayatins (devils) and they teach him sorcery, and this is disbelief (kufr). Yes.