LET'S START TONIGHT'S EDUCATION. OUR TOPIC IS 👇. *AQEEDAH AT-TAWHEED (Episode 6)

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AS AS SALAAMU ALAYKUM WARAHMATULLAH WABARAKAATUHU. LET'S START TONIGHT'S EDUCATION. OUR TOPIC IS 👇.                                                                                *AQEEDAH AT-TAWHEED (Episode 6)*                                                               


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Sorcery involves Shirk in two aspects:
*🔸,* because it involves seeking the help of Shayateen, depending on them, and seeking their favors by doing things they love in return for their services. Besides, sorcery is what Shaytaan teach people. Allah says: _*"But it is Shayateen who disbelieved, teaching people sorcery."*_ [Soorah al-Baqarah (2): 102].
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*🔸,* It connotes the claim of knowledge of the unseen or invisible world, and the claim of sharing this knowledge with Allah, which constitutes infidelity and deviation. Allah says: _*"And they have certainly known that he who learns it has no share of good in the Hereafter."*_ [Soorah al-Baqarah (2): 102] Hence, there is no doubt that sorcery constitutes infidelity and Shirk which opposes the Aqeedah, and he, who practices must be executed. _Some prominent Companions (radhi allahi anhum) beheaded a number of sorcerers.
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▫️.* Divination and Soothsaying Both of which are but the presumptuous claim of having access to the knowledge of the unseen world, and futuristic events as to what will happen on earth, or knowing the location of lost things by employing Shayateen who eavesdrop on the heaven. Allah says: *"Shall I inform you on whom the devils descend? They descend on every great liar and sinner. They eavesdrop and most of them are liars. Who gives ear and most of them are liars."* [Soorah ash-Shoora (26): 221-223].
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For Shaytaan listens by stealth to the conversation of angels and then passes it on to a soothsayer who in turns adds to it a hundred lies, and people would believe him on account of that word which Shaytaan heard from the heaven. Allah alone is the only One to Whom the knowledge of the unseen is restricted of Ghaib with Allah through divination or otherwise, and he who believes such claimant has by so doing ascribed a partner to Allah's imputing to him characteristics that are exclusively Allah's.
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Divination too involves Shirk because it is a means of gaining access to devils through doing what they love. It is Shirk of Rububiyyah from the aspect of claiming a share in the knowledge of the unseen, and Shirk of Uloohiyyah from the aspect of dedicating acts of worship to other than Allah. Abu Hurayrah reported that the Prophet (salallahu alaihe wa-sallam) said: _*"He who consults a diviner or a soothsayer and believes what he says, will have disbelieved in what was send down to Muhammad (i.e. the Qur'aan)."*_ [Abu Dawood].
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It must be borne in mind that sorcerers, soothsayers, and diviners, deceive people by posing as physicians and command their patients to make an offering to other than Allah. They command them to offer animals with certain specifications, or they write them polytheistic talismanic writings, and devilish amulets and place them in lockets to be worn by patients around their necks or preserve them in boxes in their homes. Some pose as fortune-tellers claiming they can locate lost items so that ignorant people would seek their help for locating their lost properties.
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They either inform them about the locations of the lost item, or bring it to them by means of Shaytanic clients.

Some also pose as pious people who can achieve things that break through the course of nature, such fire walking, or shooting himself with fire arms, or stabbing themselves with knives or the like, or making a car run over them without being harmed. Or they form certain gimmicks that are achieved by Shaytaan and it seems as if such people are performing them. They may be imaginary actions, or magic tricks performed in front of the spectators, just as Fir'awn's sorcerers when they enchanted people with their ropes and sticks.
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*A debate between Shaikh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, and a Bata'ihiyah sorcerer*
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In his debate with Shaikh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, a Bata'ihiyah sorcerer who belonged to the Riffa'iyah Sufi Order, raised him voice saying: _"We can do abnormal things of such and such that no one else can do. He claimed performing things that break through the course of nature, such as fire walking and other things that only members of his order can do”.
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Shaikh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah raised his voice angrily saying: _"I am addressing every Ahmadi (Riffa'i) in the East and the West of the earth challenging them that anything they can do, such as fire walking, I would do the same, and he who burns is defeated. I probably said, 'May the curse of Allah be upon him.' Provided we wash our bodies with vinegar and hot water."_
Some rulers and people asked me about my statement, to which I said: _"Because they rub their bodies with the frog's fat, and citrus fruit skin, and the talc stone."
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Then the Riffa'i said: _"Both you and me shall wrap ourselves in a sheer after coating our bodies with sulfur."_ I said: _"Let us do so,"_ and I repeated my demand, then he touched his shirt pretending to take it off, I said: _"Not until you wash your body with hot water and vinegar."_ He was perplexed then he said: _"He who loves the ruler let him bring in wood for the fire."_ I said: _"You are distracting people from the main debate and wasting time, and nothing can be achieved. It is enough to light a lantern and insert in it my finger and yours after having a wash, then he whose finger is burnt, then upon him shall be the curse of Allah. Or, I said: _"He will be defeated."_ Having said this, the man's face changed and looked humiliated. In other words, such people are imposters who deceive people by their hidden tricks.

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End of Today's Education. Subhanakallahuma wabihamdik ash-Hadu an llaaila Ilan Anta wastagfiruka wa atuuubu ilayhi.*We shall continue on this topic tomorrow in sha Allah*. May Allah Azza wajjala strengthen and make us steadfast in faith. May HE accept our ibaadat and grant us the Good in this World and the Hereafter. May Allah Azza wa jalla forgive and grant us Jannah...Aa MIN