The Explanation of Sorcery, Fortune-Telling, and Divination, and the Differences Between Them

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Answer:
What is between a resident and a frequent visitor, so he gave it to him. And what? And what? A sorcerer. He is the one who practices sorcery. Sorcery, as the scholars mentioned, is a term for incantations. It is a knot that the sorcerer ties and recites in it. And invocations, he ties knots and recites invocations that he writes.
This is sorcery in the linguistic sense. In the language, "sahar" means what is hidden and subtle in cause. The hidden thing is called "sahar." From this comes the "sahar" of the end of the night, due to its hiddenness. This is in the language. But in the technical sense, sorcery refers to incantations, knots, and invocations that affect the body of a bewitched person, either by killing, or by illness, or by creating enmity between him and those he loves. Either by killing, or by illness, or by enmity. This is not correct.
This is real sorcery, and there is also imaginary sorcery that has no reality. For example, they call the redness "al-Hamrah"; they do something dazzling, they do something and its opposite, they cause something. They place it on people's eyes, making them imagine something that is not the reality, as Allah the Exalted said regarding the sorcerers of Musa (peace be upon him): . Their sorcery made it seem to them that they were moving, making it seem to Musa that the staffs and ropes were moving like snakes, when in fact they were not. Because they put mercury in them or something of the old tricks that move them, so a person thinks they move by themselves, but they only put old things in them. This is imaginary sorcery with no reality. As for the first type, which purifies, plants, and creates enmity, that is real, real sorcery. This is the work of the sorcerer, and it is a Satanic work, because the sorcerer cannot perform this work unless he seeks the help of the devils who produce it in the making of sorcery, and the sorcerer does not do it; this is a human work, a Satanic work that the devils give to some of the children of Adam when he submits to them and seeks their help and disbelieves in Allah the Mighty and Majestic. The sorcerer cannot but disbelieve in Allah the Mighty and Majestic, because he cannot obtain sorcery except through the devils, and the devils cannot reveal it to him unless he disbelieves in Allah. For this reason, He the Exalted and Majestic said: up to His saying: "And they do not teach anyone until they say: We are only a trial, so do not be in doubt." And at the end of the verse He said: meaning the sorcerers has no share in Paradise. And the one who has no share in Paradise is the disbeliever, so the sorcerer has no share in Paradise; therefore, he is a disbeliever. Thus, the verse indicates his disbelief from several angles. This is the question.
As for fortune-telling, it is something else. Fortune-telling means that humans seek nearness to the devils, to the devils of the jinn, seeking nearness to them with what they are pleased with, such as disbelief in Allah and slaughtering for other than Allah. They inform them of things from the knowledge of the unseen, which either they stole from the sky from the stars, or they saw in a distant place on the earth, because the jinn have the ability to fly and cover distances. So they look at things that humans do not look at. When the human submits to them and obeys them in disbelief in Allah, they serve him by giving him some of the hidden knowledge that is concealed from people, except by eavesdropping, or by informing him of something distant that he does not know about, like the lost item and the place of the lost thing. The fortune-teller informs him that it is in such a house or with such a person, because the devil walks and enters with people without them knowing. He knows the places, he does not know them at all, the first one.
And they lie. The majority of fortune-tellers lie. That is, they lie with one hundred lies along with one word of truth, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) informed. If he has a little truth, he lies with a lot, so people believe him in the lot because of the little truth he had. He is believed in that word that was heard from the Salaf, as in the hadith. This is the fortune-teller who informs about the unseen. That is, in short, the fortune-teller is the one who informs about the unseen. And this is not within his ability, but rather it is through the jinn. I lean toward the jinn, no less and no more. This is the doer. As for the third, who is it? The diviner is the one who also informs about the future, about the unseen, but not through the fortune-tellers, but rather through Satanic intuition. That is, he distinguishes in some things that such and such will happen. If he sees something, he means such and such will happen. If he sees the star, he sees something and intuitively deduces that such and such will happen in the future. It may happen and it may not happen. He only informs about the future with matters in which he relies on his intuition, his guess, and his assumption. He may hit the mark in some and miss in many. This is the diviner. And perhaps the term diviner or fortune-teller is used. But in detail, if the diviner is mentioned alone and the fortune-teller alone, the other is included in it. But if they are all mentioned, the diviner and the fortune-teller, it is said the diviner and the fortune-teller and the questioner. It is said the questioner is such and the fortune-teller is such and the diviner is such. As for if one is mentioned alone and the questioner is mentioned, the fortune-teller is included in it and the diviner is included in it. If the fortune-teller is mentioned only, the two are included in it: the sorcerer and the diviner. If the diviner is mentioned alone, the sorcerer and the fortune-teller are included in it. Some of them are included in each other, because their profession is one. Even if some of their methods differ, their profession is one, which is informing about the unseen. Yes.