04/03/2024
Praise be to Allah.
Sihr: A serious crime
Sihr is a serious crime and is one of the kinds of disbelief. It is one of the things with which people have been tested, in the past and currently, among the nations of the past, during the Jahiliyyah 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 β the more the practitioners of sihr and trickery increase and spread in the land, to take the peopleβs 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 Quran 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.
Meaning of sihr
According to Sharieβah, 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 Allah said concerning the magicians of Pharaoh (interpretation of the meaning):
βThey said: βO Musa! ( Moses ) Either you throw first or we be the first to throw?β Musa said: βNay, throw you (first)!β Then behold! their ropes and their sticks, by their magic , appeared to him as though they moved fast. So Musa conceived fear in himself. We (Allah) said: βFear 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 magicianβs trick, and the magician will never be successful, to whatever amount (of skill) he may attain.ββ [Ta-Ha 20:65-69]
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