Is there a sin or accountability on the one who casts the evil eye if he strikes another with it?

The questioner : In the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): Is there a sin or accountability on the one who casts the evil eye if he strikes another with it?

The Shaykh : If he does it intentionally, as is reported to me, there is no doubt that he is accountable. But if it happens from him inadvertently, there is no accountability. However, he should take precautions to the best of his ability so that he does not strike anyone with his eye. There is no doubt that one of the best means of this precaution and caution is seeking blessing, saying: The true evil eye is a very strange matter, even though some people deny its effect. I have a brother who used to tell me about a friend of his in our main town, Shkodra in Albania, the town where we were born and lived, what Allah willed. This friend of my brother’s had an eye that was like a weapon or a rifle in his hand; it was something almost unbelievable. He used to say to my brother, during the days of the grapes and their ripening, in our country there, the houses were of the old Arab style, and every house necessarily had a courtyard and a very wide open space inside the house. That used to suffice the whole family, saving them from the need to go out, as is the case with these houses that, as some say, are like sardine cans. There was no house in this courtyard that did not have trees, some of them figs and some of them grapes. I do not say "vineyard," even though this term is used, meaning this word, because you know that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to say: The point is, when these trellises bore fruit and their grapes ripened, my brother’s friend would say to him, "Let us go out to pick them." How? All the vines had climbed the branches of the tree whose branches overhung the street, but very high, because the houses were like that at the time. He barely aimed his eye at the bunch he chose but it would fall, as if it had been cut with a knife. It was something terrible. Therefore, whoever knows that this ailment is in himself must take precautions and seek help from Allah (Mighty and Majestic) not to harm anyone. Then, if he feels that he has struck someone, he must submit to what came in the authentic Prophetic medicine in the Muwatta of Malik and others, which is that he should perform ablution, and his water of ablution should be taken and used to wipe the afflicted person, and in that there is healing by the permission of Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He).
The questioner: Okay, if you are finished, I will ask you, so that we can make room for others, especially since your neighbor is waiting with great eagerness.