The Difference Between Sorcery and the Evil Eye

Question:
The questioner asks: What is the difference between sorcery and the evil eye?

Answer:
Sorcery is one thing, and the evil eye is another. The evil eye is being struck by the evil eye. Some people have a poisonous gaze; when they look at something, that thing is affected. This is among the signs of Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He). Ibn al-Qayyim mentioned that it contains a snake; when it looks at something, that thing is struck, because the gaze can be poisonous. Likewise, the heart can have the evil eye; if something is mentioned to him or he recalls something, that thing is affected. This thing in the soul is created by Allah, just as He created snakes and the poison in them, and just as He created predators and their predation. So Allah (Mighty and Majestic) is capable of everything. As for sorcery, it is an action. Sorcery is an action, either a real action where something is done that has an effect, such as tying knots in a string and blowing on them, or preparing and combining materials. This is real. Or it is imaginary sorcery, which is called al-qamara (illusion). It makes people think that he is doing something when he is not doing it.
He casts an illusion over them, making people think that he did something when he did not do it. He walks on fire, throws himself under a car and it passes over him, he carries heavy weights, he eats coals. This is a lie. This is imaginary sorcery and a lie. He did not do this thing, but he made it seem so to people, like the magicians of Pharaoh who threw down their ropes and their staffs. They were merely ropes stuffed with mercury and staffs also stuffed, moving as if they were snakes. It was an illusion. It was a great illusion. It made it seem to him, meaning to Moses (peace be upon him), from their sorcery that they were moving, while they were not moving. This is imaginary sorcery. This is what the sorcerer does, what those called the workers of shirk (associating partners with Allah) do. This is imaginary sorcery. It is not permissible to approve of it, it is not permissible to bring in its practitioners, and it is not permissible to display it in the festivals they call festivals and parties. This is not permissible. This is severely forbidden. Yes.