My brother after returning from a trip starting acting very strange. He would say weird things and now doesn't talk to anyone at all. He has been sitting outside for 2 months now. He has even spit on our mother. At first we thought there was something psychologically wrong with him. However when we took him to a mental doctor he talks as if he is fine. We think he is either possessed by a Jinn or some magic was done to him.
How can you tell if someone is possessed or if magic was done to them?
How do you remove it? My mother is getting very sick over this.
Answer:
Praise be to Allaah
People who have had experience with such situations have related that the following are among the signs of a person who is possessed by jinn (or Satan):
Strong repulsion when hearing Quraan or Aathaan (call for prayers).
Episodes of losing consciousness and/or epileptic attacks, especially when Quraan is recited for the possessed person.
Frequent nightmares during sleep.
Tendency to avoid people accompanied by out-of-the-norm behavior.
The jinn who possesses him might speak when Quran is recited for the possessed person.
Madness, as stated in the Quran (interpretation of the meaning): "Those who devour usury will not stand except as stands one whom Satan by his touch hath driven to [epileptic] madness"2:275
As for a person struck by magic he might experience the following:
Dislike of one's spouse, as indicated in the Quran by the following verse (interpretation of the meaning): "And from these (angels) people learn that by which they cause separation between a man and his wife..." (Al-Baqarah, 2:102).
Different attitude in the house from that which is outside the house. For example, a person will feel that he is missing his family when is outside the house but when he goes home, love changes quickly to extreme hatred.
Inability to have sexual intercourse with one's spouse.
Frequent miscarriage for pregnant women.
Sudden change in behavior without obvious reason.
Complete loss of appetite for food.
Thinking or imagining one has done something when in reality one has not.
Sudden obedience and/or love for a particular person.
It should be noted that if a person experiences some of the above symptoms this does not necessarily mean that he is either possessed by a jinn or struck by black magic. It might be due to physiological or psychological reasons.
As for curing this condition the following steps are recommended:
Putting one's trust in Allah with sincere belief that He is the only cure for everything.
Reading Quran and known supplications expressing seeking refuge, the most important and effective of which is sura 113 and 114, Al-Falaq and Al-Naas, which were used to cure the Prophet himself. Surah 112, Al-Ikhlaas, is recommended along with them, as well as the opening chapter of the Qur�aan, Al-Fatihah. To cure black magic some have successfully used seven lotus-tree leaves. The leaves should be crushed, then mixed them with water enough for taking a bath. The following verses from the Quran are then recited: verse Al-Kursi (2:255), surah Al-Kafiroon (109), surah 112, 113, 114; the verses which mention magic, which are: in surah Al-Baqarah (2:102), Al-Araaf (3:117-119), Yunus (10:79-82), and Taha (20:65-69). The possessed person drinks some of the water, and the rest is used to give him a bath.
Removing the elements of magic as was done by the Prophet when he was struck by black magic by a Jewish man called Lubaid Ben Al-�Aasim.
Eating seven Aaliya Al-Barniy dates (among the dates of Al-Madinah) first thing in the morning; if not possible, any dates will suffice, by the will of Allaah.
Cupping--removing excess blood.
Supplications.
And we ask Allaah to cure your brother and ease your hardship and his, as He is the One who cures and there is no one else who can cure.
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Sihr and its types
Question :
Is sihr (magic, witchcraft) real? Does it have any effect? What are its types?
Answer :
Praise be to Allaah.
Praise be to Allaah and blessings and peace be upon the Messenger of Allaah, and his family and companions and those who follow his guidance.
Sihr is a serious crime and is one of the kinds of kufr. It is one of things with which people have been tested, in the past and currently, among the nations of the past, during the Jaahiliyyah and in this ummah. The more ignorance increases, the less there is knowledge and awareness of faith, the less attention the authorities pay to this matter � the more the practitioners of sihr and trickery increase and spread in the land, to take the people�s wealth and confuse them and do other things. When knowledge prevails and faith increases, and the Islamic authorities are powerful, the number of these evil people shrinks and they move from one land to another, seeking a place where their falsehood will be accepted and they will be able to engage in their trickery and corruption.
The Qur�aan and Sunnah have described the kinds of sihr and the rulings on these matters.
Sihr is so called because its means are hidden or secret, and because the practitioners of sihr deal with things in secret which enable them to perform illusions to confuse the people and deceive their eyes, and to cause them harm or steal their money, etc., in a secretive manner so that in most cases nobody realizes what is happening. Hence the last part of the night is called sahar, because at the end of the night people are unaware and they do not move about much. And the lungs are also called sahr, because they are hidden inside the body.
According to sharee�ah, the meaning of sihr is what the magicians do to delude and confuse people, so that the one who is watching thinks that it is real when in fact it is not. As Allaah said concerning the magicians of Pharaoh (interpretation of the meaning):
�They said: �O Moosa! Either you throw first or we be the first to throw?�
Moosa said: �Nay, throw you (first)!� Then behold! their ropes and their sticks, by their magic, appeared to him as though they moved fast.
So Moosa conceived fear in himself.
We (Allaah) said: �Fear not! Surely, you will have the upper hand.
And throw that which is in your right hand! It will swallow up that which they have made. That which they have made is only a magician�s trick, and the magician will never be successful, to whatever amount (of skill) he may attain.��
[Ta-Ha 20:65-69]
Sihr may involve things that the magician does when tying knots on which he blows, as is referred to in the Qur�aan (interpretation of the meaning):
�And from the evil of those who practise witchcraft when they blow in the knots�[al-Falaq 113:4]
And it may involve other things which they manage to do through the shayaateen (devils), so they do things that may affect a man's reason or make him sick; they may cause division between a man and his wife, resulting in her looking ugly to him, or by making her hate her husband or be put off by him. This is blatant kufr as the Qur�aan states. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
�They followed what the Shayaateen (devils) gave out (falsely of the magic) in the lifetime of Sulaymaan (Solomon). Sulaymaan did not disbelieve, but the Shayaateen (devils) disbelieved, teaching men magic�
[al-Baqarah 2:102]
Allaah informs us that they (the shayaateen) committed kufr by teaching men magic. Then He says (interpretation of the meaning):
�and such things that came down at Babylon to the two angels, Haaroot and Maaroot, but neither of these two (angels) taught anyone (such things) till they had said, �We are for trial, so disbelieve not (by learning this magic from us).��[al-Baqarah 2:102]
Then Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
�And from these (angels) people learn that by which they cause separation between man and his wife, but they could not thus harm anyone except by Allaah�s Leave�[al-Baqarah 2:102]
i.e., this magic and any harm that results from it is subject to the prior decree and will of Allaah, for our Lord cannot be overwhelmed and nothing can happen in His Dominion against His Will. Nothing happens in this world or in the hereafter except by His prior decree and His great wisdom, as He wills. So some people may be tested by sihr, and others may be tested by sickness, or by being killed�etc. Allaah is All-Wise in all that He wills and decrees, and in all that He prescribes for His slaves. Hence Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
�but they could not thus harm anyone except by Allaah�s Leave�
[al-Baqarah 2:102]
i.e., by His universal (kawni) will and decree, not by His legislative (shar�i) will [i.e., He wills that it should happen but He does not enjoin it and He is not pleased by such actions]. For sharee�ah does not allow such things, indeed it forbids them, but by His universal leave He already knows and has already decreed that So and so will do sihr, and that So and so will be affected by sihr, just as He already knows and has already decreed that So and so will be killed, or afflicted with a certain sickness, or will die in a certain land, and will receive such and such provision, or will be rich or poor. All of that happens by the will and decree of Allaah, as He says (interpretation of the meaning):
�Verily, We have created all things with Qadar (Divine Preordainments of all things before their creation as written in the Book of Decrees Al‑Lawh Al‑Mahfooz)[al-Qamar 54:49]
�No calamity befalls on the earth or in yourselves but it is inscribed in the Book of Decrees (Al‑Lawh Al‑Mahfooz) before We bring it into existence. Verily, that is easy for Allaah�
[al-Hadeed 57:22]
The evils that come at the hands of the magicians or others do not happen because our Lord is ignorant, for He knows all things and nothing at all is hidden from Him, as He says (interpretation of the meaning):
�Verily, Allaah is the All-Knower of everything�[al-Anfaal 8:75]
�that you may know that Allaah has power over all things, and that All�h surrounds all things in (His) Knowledge�[al-Talaaq 65:12]
So Allaah knows all things, and nothing happens in His Dominion that He does not will, but He has perfect wisdom and good aims in whatever He decrees should happen to people of honour or humiliation, losing or gaining power, sickness or health, magic and other things.
Everything that happens to people happens by the will of Allaah and in accordance with His prior decree. These magicians may perform their illusions, as stated in the aayah quoted above (interpretation of the meaning):
�They said: �O Moosa! Either you throw first or we be the first to throw?�
Moosa said: �Nay, throw you (first)!� Then behold! their ropes and their sticks, by their magic, appeared to him as though they moved fast. [Ta-Ha 20:65-66]
It appeared to the onlooker as if these sticks and ropes were snakes, moving fast in the valley. They were only sticks and ropes, but the magicians, through what they had learned, made what they demonstrated before the people look different in their eyes to what it really was.
Allaah says (interpretation if the meaning):
�by their magic, appeared to him as though they moved fast�
[Ta-Ha 20:66]
And in Soorat al-A�raaf Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
�He [Moosa] said: �Throw you (first).� So when they threw, they bewitched the eyes of the people, and struck terror into them, and they displayed a great magic� [al-A�raaf 7:116]
But in fact their sticks and ropes did not change; it was the people�s sight which changed because of the sihr, so they thought they were snakes, because of the illusion brought about by the magicians. Some people call this taqmeer, which is when the magician does things to make a person not sense reality as it really is, so his eyes do not see what is really there and things may be taken from his shop or his home without him realizing it, i.e., he does not know what is really happening. So he may see a rock as a chicken or as an egg, and so on, because reality has been changed in his eyes because of the confusion wrought by the magician, and because his eyes have been bewitched. There are things that the magicians do with certain substances to make people�s eyes not see what is really happening. This is the kind of magic which Allaah describes as �great� [i.e. serious, powerful] in Soorat al-A�raaf (interpretation of the meaning):
�� So when they threw, they bewitched the eyes of the people, and struck terror into them, and they displayed a great magic� [al-A�raaf 7:116]
From Majmoo� Fataawaa wa Maqaalaat Mutanawwi�ah li Samaahat al-Shaykh al-�Allaamah �Abd al-�Azeez ibn Baaz (may Allaah have mercy on him), p. 65 (www.islam-qa.com)
Can sihr (witchcraft, magic) kill?
Question :
i would like information on majic (jadoo) what are the consequences and can people use it to kill people.
Answer :
Praise be to Allaah.
Yes, there is sihr that can kill. When discussing different forms of murder the scholars have mentioned that the person who kills another by means of a kind of sihr that usually kills should be executed (qisaas � retaliation), because he has killed by means of something that usually kills. Ibn Qudaamah said in al-Mughni (9/330): �The sixth kind: if he killed him by means of a kind of sihr that usually kills, then he has to be executed, because he has killed by means of something that usually kills, like killing by use of a knife. If he killed by means of something that does not usually kill or something that sometimes kills and sometimes does not, then he has to pay diyah (blood-money), but qisaas is not required, because he intended to do harm, and it is akin to beating someone with a stick (which may or may not kill).�
The ruling concerning the saahir (practitioner of sihr) in al-Mawsoo�ah al-Fiqhiyyah (24/267) says that in the case where he killed a person by means of his sihr� the majority say that killing by means of sihr may be done deliberately, in which case qisaas is required. According to the Maalikis, evidence or a confession is required. According to the Shaafi�is, if the person whom the practitioner of sihr killed was his equal , then qisaas is required if the killing was deliberate, which may be proven by a confession on the part of the saahir, such as his saying �I killed him by means of my sihr�, or �I killed him with this type of thing�, supported by the testimony of two reliable witnesses who have practised sihr in the past but have now repented, who can confirm that this kind of sihr usually kills. If it is a type that does not usually kill, then the matter is more akin to manslaughter.
And Allaah knows best.
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It is possible for witchcraft to come between a man and his wife?
Question:
I am asking whether it is true that some one makes what we call (Hojob) in Arabic to make other peole fail in their lifes.
I dont know if you understand what I mean or not. I will give you an example, I was told that some people dont like others, so what they do,they go to specialized people and ask them to do something by the help of the (Jin) or whatever and make the life of that person misery,like makes him fail in his life or ....... I dont know whether this is available truley or not .
please give me an answer
Answer:
Praise be to Allaah.
The correct view according to the majority of Ahl al-Sunnah is that witchcraft or magic is real and that it can have an effect � if Allaah wills and decrees it � on the body of the one against whom it is directed, and it could even kill him.
Imaam al-Quraafi said: �Witchcraft is real and the person against whom it is directed could die, or his mood and habits could be changed� This was also the view of al-Shaafa�i and Ibn Hanbal�� (al-Furooq, 4/149)
The Mu�tazilah and Qadariyyah did not agree with this� but that is of no significance. Al-Quraafi and others mentioned that the Sahaabah agreed that it (witchcraft) is real, before there emerged anybody who denied this.
Among the evidence of Ahl al-Sunnah is:
The aayah (interpretation of the meaning):
�but the Shayaateen (devils) disbelieved, teaching men magic and such things that came down at Babylon to the two angels, Haaroot and Maaroot, but neither of these two (angels) taught anyone (such things) till they had said, �We are for trial, so disbelieve not (by learning this magic from us).� And from these (angels) people learn that by which they cause separation between man and his wife, but they could not thus harm anyone except by Allaah�s Leave. And they learn that which harms them and profits them not.� [al-Baqarah 2:102]
This aayah clearly indicates what is being asked about here, which is that witchcraft is real and that the practitioner of witchcraft can cause separation between a man and his wife and that he can cause harm to people by his witchcraft � if that is decreed by the universal will of Allaah.
The aayah (interpretation of the meaning):
�And from the evil of the witchrafts when they blow in the knots� [al-Falaq 113:4]
�the witchcrafts when they blow in the knots� refers to witches or female practitioners of witchcraft who tie knots as part of their magic and blow on them. If witchcraft were not real, Allaah would not have commanded us to seek refuge from it.
Further proof is to be seen in the fact that witchcraft was directed against the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) by the Jew Labeed ibn al-A�sam. This is a saheeh hadeeth which was narrated by al-Bukhaari and Muslim.
Further evidence is to be seen in the real-life experiences of many people, which cannot be overlooked.
Ibn al-Qayyim said: the witchcraft which causes people to be sick or to feel depressed, or which makes them love or hate, exists and is well known to all people. Many people have experienced what it can do to them.� (al-Tafseer al-Qayyim, p. 571).
Ibn Qudaamah said: �It is well known among people that a man can be separated from his wife (by witchcraft) when he gets married, so that he is unable to have intercourse with her, but when the spell is lifted, then he is able to have intercourse with her. This is so commonly known that it cannot be denied. There are so many reports of witchcraft that it is inconceivable that so many people would agree on a lie.� (al-Mughni, 8/151)
There are many ways of protecting oneself against witchcraft:
The best way is to fear Allaah, obey His commands, put one's trust in Him, seek refuge with Allaah, and start each morning by eating seven dates. All of these were narrated in saheeh ahaadeeth.
There are many ways of removing the effects of witchcraft, including:
Ruqyah [prayers, supplications], the best of which is supplications from the Qur�aan, then du�aa�s narrated in saheeh haadeeth.
Finding the objects used for witchcraft purposes and doing something to neutralize them.
Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: the Sunnah for treating this sickness � two kinds were transmitted from him:
One of them � which is the best � is to locate and neutralize the object, as it was reported in a saheeh hadeeth that he (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) asked his Lord about that, and He directed him to a well where he found a comb, some hairs that had fallen when he combed his hair �.�. When he removed these things from the well, he felt better, as if he had recovered from an illness. This is this is the best way of dealing with this problem, and is like removing something bad from the body by expelling it.
Cupping, induced vomiting and surgery.
Ibn al-Qayyim said � continuing what he said in the words quoted above: �The second kind is by physically removing the place affected by the witchcraft, because witchcraft has an effect on human nature and the bodily humours, and can affect moods. If its effects are noted in any part if the body and it is possible to remove the bad material, this will be very beneficial.� (Zaad al-Ma�aad, 4/124, 125).
And Allaah knows best.
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