What is the validity of the statement: If one sees a sorcerer practicing sorcery in front of people and recites Ayat al-Kursi over him, then that invalidates his sorcery?
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: Is it correct that some people say that if you see a sorcerer practicing his sorcery in front of people, and you recite Ayat al-Kursi, that it invalidates his sorcery and causes it to fall, even if there is a bird in the air?
Answer:
It may be so, and it may not be so, depending on the intention of the reciter and the faith of the reciter. Yes. He may recite the verse and it has no effect because the one reciting it is not qualified. Because the reciter is not qualified. They say the verse is the verse, but the person is not the person. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: Is it correct that some people say that if you see a sorcerer practicing his sorcery in front of people, and you recite Ayat al-Kursi, that it invalidates his sorcery and causes it to fall, even if there is a bird in the air?
Answer:
It may be so, and it may not be so, depending on the intention of the reciter and the faith of the reciter. Yes. He may recite the verse and it has no effect because the one reciting it is not qualified. Because the reciter is not qualified. They say the verse is the verse, but the person is not the person. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [768 -858] ما صحة القول: من رأى ساحرا يمارس السحر أمام الناس فقرأ عليه آية الكرسي فإن ذلك يبطل سحره؟ — youtube.com
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