The Ruling on Acrobatic Performances and Seeking Treatment from Sorcerers

Question:
Now, to complete the previous question, which is to explain some of the types of sorcery mentioned in the texts and the ruling on each type, what is the ruling on acrobatic performances and seeking treatment from sorcerers?

Answer:
The Shaykh (may Allah reward him with good) was generous in explaining the types of sorcery. Look at the suit behind you, then. Mention what has spread in this age, especially after the connection between regions, the ease of travel, and the arrival of evils from the farthest parts of the land to the farthest parts in speed, until the world became like one country. This evil has increased, and I seek refuge in Allah. The media also has a share in transferring the press or video or otherwise; they have a share in transferring these evils to the countries and promoting them?
So among that are these matters. What is with you? Be careful, keep your attention, keep your attention, be a little careful in speaking. Correct. We were upset for him. May Allah accept it. And you. So among these matters are these games. Praise be to Allah. Which they call acrobatic performances.
That sorcerers come and appear in arenas prepared for them or in places prepared for them, places prepared for these matters, and the crowds of people gather to watch them, and they announce that to the people, and it becomes a day on which they attend to watch this false prophet sorcerer, with what he displays of types of sorcery before the people in a way that they are athletic works. And that they are works that rely on skill. And on agility.
And they call evil by other than its name, because it is mentioned in the last of time that forbidden things are called by other than their names; selling is called, riba (usury or interest) is called by the name of selling, and khamr (intoxicants) is called by other than its name, and sorcery is likewise called by the name of sports and by the name of entertainment works or the like of that. So this sorcerer or sorcerers come and display to the people types of sorcery, deluding the ignorant thereby to corrupt the beliefs of the Muslims, and that is due to the Muslims' negligence in the matter of their belief, and their listening to the callers of evil. Evil is undoubtedly present in every time and every age, for Allah to test His servants with it, but when the people of righteousness, the people of religion, the people of piety, and the people of correct belief neglect the corrupters, they spread and disseminate their evil and try to corrupt the beliefs of the Muslims. And this is the reality of these false prophets in this day or in this age who make a profession of sorcery but do not call it sorcery.
Rather, they call it by other than its name to cover it from the eyes, so it appears to the people that he pulls the large car with a hair, or that he stabs his eye with iron spikes and is not affected, or that for example he lies on the face of the earth and the car runs over him and he is not affected from it, and the like of that, or that he enters the fire and it does not burn him. All of this is from the blazing and from the deception and from the misleading and the deluding of people, and otherwise it is sorcery and invalid. And if the way is opened for such a thing, then many evils enter upon the Muslims that corrupt the beliefs of the Muslims. So it is obligatory to take hold of the hands of these sorcerers and false prophets and magicians who have purposes, the most important of which is corrupting the beliefs of the Muslims, and among them is that they want to deceive and eat the money of people by falsehood, and among them is that they want to occupy the people with what does not benefit them in their religion and their worldly life. And among them is a group who want to lead the people, and they appear in the appearance of the awliya (close friends of Allah) through whose hands miracles (karamat) run, as they claim, and they are in reality from the awliya of Satan, and what runs through their hands and they display is satanic anomalies and sorcery and magic, and it is not from the karamah that runs through the hands of the awliya of Allah, because the awliya of Allah are those about whom Allah said: And these are not characterized by these two descriptions; they do not have faith and they do not have piety, but rather they have deception and superstition and the corruption of the beliefs of people. And they appear in the appearance of the awliya so that they may have followers and they may have disciples and they may have groups of people like the beasts of burden, leading them to misguidance and superstition, and I seek refuge in Allah.
And this is more severe than the first, this one who appears in the appearance of righteousness, and calls the people to follow him, and to gather around his leadership, and that he is a wali from the awliya of Allah, and that he fulfills their needs, and that he manages their affairs, and that he suffices them in what concerns them. This is more severe than the first who wants to deceive to eat the money of people by falsehood, even though both types are from the corrupters in the earth who it is obligatory to take hold of their hands, and it is obligatory to deter them, and it is obligatory to establish the ruling of Allah the Exalted in them; because they are from the worst of the corrupters in the earth. So it is obligatory upon the Muslims to be alert to these matters, because as time passes and ignorance spreads and the people of knowledge decrease, these matters increase and spread, and they have a call that they promote by various means in the magazines, in the sports clubs, in the films that are shown, and in other than that of the means that they have control over and which are easy in their hands and reach the people easily in their homes and in their communities.
So it is obligatory upon the Muslims to be alert to these false prophets and magicians and deceivers and misleaders who appear to the people in the appearance that they are from the people of righteousness and sainthood, and they are from the awliya of Satan, not from the awliya of the Most Merciful. We ask Allah for well-being and safety, and may Allah send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad.

The presenter:
O Allah, send prayers and peace and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad. Thank you to the Honorable Shaykh Salih al-Fawzan for this advice, and may Allah bless him and reward him with the best reward.