Hey everyone.
I've decided to make my second video on the topic of magic.
Magic, evil eye, and jinns.
So Islam overall is not a superstitious religion.
In fact, it prides itself on being a, you know, very rational, very logical religion.
However, it does have some major problems - major superstitions in it - which I think
are very big ... and this would be the idea of evil eye, the idea of magic, and the idea
of jinns.
Starting off with evil eye.
This is the most simple one.
The idea is that by desiring someone else - what they have - you know, something else
they have ... by wanting, by being jealous, by having envy about someone else ... you
can harm them, you can cause them some sort of, you know, loss.
And I'm going to read a hadith just to explain this idea best.
The idea comes, you know, it's in the Quran, it's in the hadith, and I wanted to just
read it to you.
And I'm reading from my blog here, I've quoted all of this on my blog.
So in case you don't understand what I'm saying, head on down to my blog and you'll be able
to understand exactly what I'm saying.
You can read it.
So, it says a messenger of Allah (Sallahu alaiyhi wa salam), used to seek protection against the
evil of jinn and evil eye, until Surah Falaq and Surah Naas were revealed.
After they were revealed, he took to them for seeking Allah's protection and left everything
besides them.
So before those verses were revealed, he used to seek protection from evil eye and jinns.
So these are something that he used to worry about, you know, that used to bother him.
Evil eye used to bother him, jinns used to bother him, and he wanted to seek protection
so he used to make dua (supplication) for that.
Until, you know, Surah Falaq and Surah Naas "Qul Audhu birabil Falaq" and "Qul audhu birabin naas" were
revealed, and then he used to read those constantly.
There's a hadith where there was a companion, and this hadith is the Muwatta of Imam Malik, but
you can find many hadith like this, where the companions were traveling and they did
Ghusl (Ritual Bath) at a place called Harrar, and what happened was while this was happening
one of the companions removed his jubbah and then Sahil was a man with beautiful white
skin.
Ahmed said to him, "I've never seen anything like I have seen today, not even the skin
of a virgin".
After he said that, he fell ill.
Somebody went to the messenger of Allah, and they told him what happened, that this man
had said "wow this man has beautiful skin like a virgin" and then he fell sick, so Prophet
Muhammad got really angry and said, "Why does one of you kill his brother.
Why didn't you say TabarakAllah (Allah bless him)".
The evil eye is truth.
It's Haqq.
Then he said, "Do Wudu" and he did wudu (ritual washing) and then, finally, he was better.
This was the reported in Imam Malik.
So that's an example of evil eye.
You know, it's very common in Muslim cultures.
You have this idea that if someone's jealous of you, they can harm you.
They can make your kids sick.
They can make you lose your job and your career.
To break up with your wife.
This idea is actually coming from seventh century superstitious knowledge and from Islam.
Many people would never believe in this except for the fact that it's part of Islam now,
and Islam says evil eye is true.
The other thing is the idea of black magic and jinn.
These two go together.
Black magic involves blowing on knots.
You know, tying knots and blowing them.
It involves taking dolls and putting needles in them.
You know, voodoo.
It involves all sorts of these creepy things.
None of this stuff is real.
None of this stuff has any effect.
There's a famous magician.
His name is James Randi.
He had a one million dollar challenge.
He said, "If anyone can prove to me any sort of paranormal activity, either speak to jinns,
ask anything you like, you just have to prove to me something that we would not be able
to explain".
So you have a jinn tell you something outside the room and someone is inside the room,
whatever you like.
Not one single person could win the million dollars.
Nobody could do it.
In fact, there's actually a joke if you go online and you look up "James Randy One Million
Challenge", there's a video on YouTube where someone pretends to do it and it was actually
an April Fool's joke.
So, nobody was able to prove it.
Nobody was able to demonstrate any sort of paranormal or supernatural activity.
It's interesting, I mean, one million dollars is a lot of money.
If someone wants to use some jinns and do this, well, you know the challenge is there.
Let's look at what the Quran says about magic.
The Quran says that magic was taught by two angels - Harut and Marut.
So, Allah gave the two angels the concept of magic.
He told them, "Do not teach people, except you have to warn them that it's a Fitna (trial)".
Allah taught the angels magic to teach people.
It's almost like.. it's a very strange story.
So I can just imagine the companions of Prophet Muhammad asking him, "Where did magic come
from?".
You know, they thought this was a real thing, and he said, "Well, I'll tell you guys.. Harut
and Marut, the angels, they came at the time of Solomon, Sulaiman alaihis salam, and
they taught magic to the people".
So now, you know, these companions are like, "Ohh that's where magic came from, okay, so
what should we do?".
And of course he said, "Okay, well, read the Quran.
This will protect you from magic.
This will protect you from the evil eye."
And this type of concept became part of Islam unfortunately.
The blowing on knots. Surah Falaq says... It's part of Surah Falaq that you seek refuge from Allah in the blowing
on knots - from the magic, from the envy of the one who envies.
From, you know, "Hasidin idha hasad" said from the person that envies.
These things are just, honestly, they're not real.
There's no such thing.
There's no such thing as magic.
If you believe magic tricks, you just have to do a little bit of research.
You'll find that these are just tricks.
These are just optical illusions.
There's nothing to it.
There's no devils. There's no jinns helping them.
It's just silly.
Even some of the hadith goes and says that Prophet Muhammad himself was afflicted by magic.
He used to forget things and maybe he had some sort of dementia later in his life, or
maybe he had some other ... maybe he just had old age and he was forgetting things.
I mean, I can just imagine someone thinking there's a magic spell on me and it's just
the strangest story where he asks Aisha (his wife), "Do you know what happened to me?" and she
says, "No."
Then he said, "Gabriel told me that somebody threw something in a well that had my hair
on it and date pollen."
Then she said, "Okay, did you take it out of the well?"
And he says, "No, I sealed it up because it would be a big fitna (tribulation) for the people."
It's just such a strange idea.
You know, maybe in the seventh century, thousands of years ago, or fourteen hundred years ago
people would believe in this stuff.
But I mean today we know there's no such thing as magic.
We know there's no such thing as jinns, magical creatures made of fire, and you know what
did Prophet Mohammed say about jinns.
There's a lot of stories about jinns.
He has one story where he's praying and then he reaches out and he grabs this thing, and
then after the prayer he asks - people ask him, "What were you doing?
What were you doing in the prayer?".
He said, "Oh, I saw a jinn, and I choked him, and I grabbed him, and you know I felt his
spit on my hand.
If it wasn't for the Dua of Sulaiman he would become master of all things".
Or was it Dawud or Sulaiman, I don't remember.
"I would have left the jinn tied up to the pole of the masjid (mosque) and you guys would
have seen him, and he would have been there until the day of judgement."
These ideas ... these stories...
There's another story in the Quran where he met some jinns, you know, basically what happened
is that he dissappeared and the companions got scared.
They said, "What happened to you?" when he came back.
He said, "Oh I went to meet some jinns.
Do you want me to show you?"
And he ran out and he showed some fire and some leftovers of a campsite and he said,
"Yeah, the jinns were here.
I met them and they believed in me, and they accepted Islam and they said that I am the
messenger."
So he told them about these magical creatures made of fire.
That they have their own religion.
They have their own animals.
They eat dung, like they eat poop, and they eat bones.
So, you know, he said you have to say, "Bismillah" before you eat otherwise the jinns will eat
from you.
And when you say Bismillah, Allah will leave a piece of food for these (Muslim) jinns, for them
to eat.
It's just really strange things to believe in.
Nobody would believe in these things except for Islam, and except for superstition.
I feel sad that the smartest people believe in these things now.
They belive in these things because Islam made them official and made them part of the
religion.
My hope is that by making these videos people will really think about these things and realise
that it's not real.
That, you know what, just think for yourself.
Ponder.
Is there such a thing as magic?
Is there such a thing as invisible creatures called devils and jinns?
Is there such a thing as evil eye?
There's no such thing.
I hope that you will have some benefit from this video.
Thank you.