How to protect oneself from sorcery, and was the Messenger ﷺ subjected to sorcery?
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Question:
The sister Salma says: Shaykh, how does one protect oneself from sorcery? Is sorcery present now? And was the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) subjected to sorcery?
Answer:
Yes, sorcery has existed since ancient times and continues as a trial from Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) and a test for the servants. It is disbelief (kufr); learning it, teaching it, and practicing it are all disbelief, may Allah protect us from it.[Al-Baqarah 2:102] This means the two angels said, "We are only a trial, so do not disbelieve," meaning do not learn sorcery. This indicates that learning sorcery is disbelief. So it is disbelief to learn it, teach it, practice it, and use it, because it is the work of the jinn and the teaching of the jinn, and because of the great harms involved in it.
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was subjected to sorcery; a Jew cast a spell on him until Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) sent Jibril and one of the angels to him. Jibril recited the Surat al-Fatihah, the Surat al-Ikhlas, and the two chapters of protection (al-Mu'awwidhat) over him as a healing, and showed him the location of the sorcery.
It was in a well, so the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) sent someone to extract this sorcery and burn it. So the treatment for sorcery is by ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation) and by destroying the sorcery if it is found. Yes, and the Messenger is a human being (peace and blessings be upon him); he gets sick as humans get sick, he gets hungry as humans get hungry, he is subjected to sorcery as humans are subjected to sorcery, what happens to humans happens to him, and he dies as humans die, or what happens to humans happens to him. Yes.
The sister Salma says: Shaykh, how does one protect oneself from sorcery? Is sorcery present now? And was the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) subjected to sorcery?
Answer:
Yes, sorcery has existed since ancient times and continues as a trial from Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) and a test for the servants. It is disbelief (kufr); learning it, teaching it, and practicing it are all disbelief, may Allah protect us from it.
but the devils disbelieved, teaching people magic and that which was revealed to the two angels at Babylon, Harut and Marut. But the two angels do not teach anyone unless they say
وَلَٰكِنَّ الشَّيَاطِينَ كَفَرُوا يُعَلِّمُونَ النَّاسَ السِّحْرَ وَمَا أُنزِلَ عَلَى الْمَلَكَيْنِ بِبَابِلَ هَارُوتَ وَمَارُوتَ وَمَا يُعَلِّمَانِ مِنْ أَحَدٍ حَتَّىٰ يَقُولَاThe Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was subjected to sorcery; a Jew cast a spell on him until Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) sent Jibril and one of the angels to him. Jibril recited the Surat al-Fatihah, the Surat al-Ikhlas, and the two chapters of protection (al-Mu'awwidhat) over him as a healing, and showed him the location of the sorcery.
It was in a well, so the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) sent someone to extract this sorcery and burn it. So the treatment for sorcery is by ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation) and by destroying the sorcery if it is found. Yes, and the Messenger is a human being (peace and blessings be upon him); he gets sick as humans get sick, he gets hungry as humans get hungry, he is subjected to sorcery as humans are subjected to sorcery, what happens to humans happens to him, and he dies as humans die, or what happens to humans happens to him. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 2089 - كيف تكون الوقاية من السحر وهل سُحر الرسول ﷺ؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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