We said that it is Allah the Exalted who gives life and causes death, so how is it that some sorcerers are able to bring the dead back to life?
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The student: Regarding the sorcerer and that ...?
The Shaykh : Does the sorcerer give life and cause death?
The student: How do you respond to him?
The Shaykh : We say: He does not give life and he does not cause death. That is to say, if he makes people think that the dead person moved, he did not actually move. For this reason, if someone came who did not realize that the sorcerer had cast a spell over the people, he would find him dead and not moving.
We said, is this a real attribute here? Affirming mercy for Allah, and then we divided it ourselves. We did not divide it based on this verse; we divided mercy in general.
The Shaykh : Does the sorcerer give life and cause death?
The student: How do you respond to him?
The Shaykh : We say: He does not give life and he does not cause death. That is to say, if he makes people think that the dead person moved, he did not actually move. For this reason, if someone came who did not realize that the sorcerer had cast a spell over the people, he would find him dead and not moving.
We said, is this a real attribute here? Affirming mercy for Allah, and then we divided it ourselves. We did not divide it based on this verse; we divided mercy in general.