The Ruling on Taking Talismans of Shirk from a Sorcerer
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, this questioner says: If a person goes to a sorcerer and takes shirk-based talismans from him, knowing the ruling, does his shirk become major shirk that takes him out of the religion?
Answer:
If he believes in these talismans and holds that they are valid and that they are beneficial, then he becomes a mushrik (one who associates partners with Allah) committing major shirk; he becomes like the sorcerer and like the soothsayer who made them. But if he took them merely to look at them and did not believe in them, then this does not make him a disbeliever. However, he is required to destroy them; he should hasten to destroy them and not return to this wicked sorcerer. He should repent to Allah and not return to this matter. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Honorable Shaykh, this questioner says: If a person goes to a sorcerer and takes shirk-based talismans from him, knowing the ruling, does his shirk become major shirk that takes him out of the religion?
Answer:
If he believes in these talismans and holds that they are valid and that they are beneficial, then he becomes a mushrik (one who associates partners with Allah) committing major shirk; he becomes like the sorcerer and like the soothsayer who made them. But if he took them merely to look at them and did not believe in them, then this does not make him a disbeliever. However, he is required to destroy them; he should hasten to destroy them and not return to this wicked sorcerer. He should repent to Allah and not return to this matter. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Source
75-اللقاء الأسبوعي مع الشيخ صالح الفوزان - 14 — archive.org (34:33)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.